Roy Hattersley Quotes

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

Democrats hate Democrats most of all.

No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a sthreet car an' set in opposite corners while wan mutthers Thraiter an' th' other hisses Miscreent ye can bet they're two dimmycratic leaders thryin' to reunite th' gran' ol' party.

The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.

The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.

I do not often attack the Labour Party, they do it so well themselves.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

Donald Trump is a candidate who divided his own party more deeply than any presidential candidate has before.

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

But Hale's warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn't want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement.

There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party.

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party.

There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great political parties, each arranged under its leader and converting measures in opposition to each other.

The Workers (Communist) Party of America has been for many years an organization of foreign workers not much connected with the political life of the country. Owing to this immigrant exclusiveness two leading groups arose.... For six years an almost uninterrupted struggle for supremacy in the party has been going on between them. The struggle was, in the main, not based on principles ... principles served chiefly to camouflage the struggle for supremacy.

The Democrats fought with the conservatives. The Republicans fought with the liberals. The Bull Moosers fought with everybody.

Here's the problem of the Democratic Party... There's no Breitbart. The problem in the Democratic Party? They haven't had a civil war.

UKIP's biggest fight is with the Conservative Party.

It is uncomfortable seeing how very divisive politics has become.

I've had problems with the Republican establishment in the past.

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. In governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.