Avigdor Lieberman Quotes

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

It's perfectly reasonable in a coalition between two political parties that you get supporters of those parties you know stressing the things they want to stress.

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.

There always will naturally be some differences when you form the government with coalition parties. Even some single party governments also face several issues.

I know the pain of coalition government.

And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.

We will govern as if we had a majority. You simply carry on with your agenda.

It’s important to remember that in Mexico there is no single party that ever has a majority in the House and Senate. For this reason, all political reforms require accord.

If you establish a right unity government, you create an effective platform to make... decisions because you have wider support of your own party.

There is nothing unusual in coalition partners differing on some issues. It is a character of democratic system.

The process of forming government in a minority is one where you talk to everyone and see: What do you have in common? And is there enough commonality?

You have to govern like you've got a majority. It doesn't matter whether it's one seat, five or 10 seats.

The Congress and regional parties may fight against each other in certain states, but they will get united at the national level against BJP for forming the coalition government.

I really think a minority Parliament delivers better democracy in Canada when parties are prepared to cooperate.

A two-party system is way too good for those two parties.

Of course, running a coalition government in a country like India is a difficult task. More so when Congress leads the coalition, since most of the political parties were anti-Congress. To have a coalition, to run a coalition government, you require a lot of adjustments, a lot of flexibility.

When my party won the elections convincingly on February 18th, 2008, we immediately reached out to other parties to form broad-based coalitions of national unity in the National Assembly and in the four provincial assemblies.

We shouldn't deny the right of the minority to filibuster, but we need to do a much better job of making them own it. That way, the American people could figure out who is being obstructionist and who is willing to compromise.

Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

The parliamentary regime is a regime of parties

It is not healthy to have a country governed by just one political party. There should be other political families taking part in government.

England does not love coalitions.