Mao Zedong Quotes

The term Party is applied equally to the peaceful parties of America and to the Communist Party of Russia, the Nazi Party of Germany, and the Fascist Party of Italy. The methodology of these parties varies, but their fundamental objective-to place and keep their leaders in control of the government - is the same.

I figured it out real early: How can you control the city unless you're the leader of your party?

The leaders of a party, or those who are so called, have but little sway over their followers, particularly when not in Government, and when they have it not in their power to threaten them with any very serious consequences

When we are reproached for exercising the dictatorship of party, we say, yes ... We stand by it and cannot do without it.

The Republican party is now a wholly-owned subsidiary of Donald Trump.

Primary season highlights the parties’ debility, reducing them to the role of referee among contenders. Then the winner takes over the party structure, frequently installing new leaders while commandeering party fundraising lists. The nominees function much like new sheriffs who swagger into town and dominate the scene for a dramatic but fleeting moment rather than like local deputies who rise through the system and ­last.

People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

The leader of a political party in a country like ours is so exposed that his enemies become as numerous and formidable as his friends.

You run the party or the party runs you.

The political parties, or more accurately, the inner clique that controls them, select the candidates for whom the people vote. The candidates express the will of the party and not that of the people. The platforms of the contending parties are adjusted to trick the voters into balloting for their candidates.

I cannot run the political machine. I have enough on my hands without that. It is the people's business.

You cannot have an opposition party unless it is opposed to the people in power.

The military power shall always be held in exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it.

In the United States, it is easier to take over a party than to start a party.

No man ever exercised less influence in the Senate or the House of Representatives than he, but no man ever exercised more power as a political leader.

A nationalist movement seeks its own country. A nationalist party seeks a country that will keep electing it.

Politics is history in the present tense

Military campaigns are inseparable from politics.

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

Influence is not government.

My father used to say that you haven't learnt anything about politics unless you've been out of power for at least 10 years. That's why I am certain I am here to stay.

MPs are basically bonded labourers of their parties. And it is the party high command of each party, which takes decisions.

Look, politics can be tough.