Raj Thackeray Quotes

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

India's national elections are really an aggregate of thirty different state elections, each influenced by its own local considerations, regional political currents, and different patterns of political incumbency.

Because, Bill, I think we’ve given the South away to the Republican party for as long as anyone can foresee.

Essentially, the BJP is nothing more than a north Indian party. Its mentality is also north Indian. They are quite capable of backtracking on the issues relating to Tamil Nadu if it suits them. But I will not allow that.

TDP had to join hands with the Congress given the need for a major anchor party in the front against the BJP.

Nowadays, it has become a custom to criticise the BJP for everything.

I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.

For decades, there was no alternative to the two Dravidian parties - the DMK and the AIADMK.

How can BJP be anti-Bangla when BJP founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a Bengali?

There is no question of any alliance with the Congress party. The Congress have always neglected the people of Odisha.

BJP was a strong force before I differed and left.

I won, we won, because we grew the base of voters who share our values - not because we tried to talk Republicans into embracing us just long enough to cast a ballot.

When people speak of BJP being an 'election machine,' it is actually development and progress that is BJP's electoral machine.

We have to convince people about the relevance of regional parties, and we are doing that.

I am an admirer of Modi's work from the beginning.

Catalan society is divided. There's one bloc - which isn't a majority - that backs pro-independence parties. But there's also a bloc that doesn't, which favours the current state, the statute of autonomy, and either increased decentralisation or even increased recentralisation.

Another thing the Democrats have grown accustomed to is their candidate is untouchable.

I don't care how much you may think they're funny or how interesting they may sound. If we nominate someone that 40 to 50 percent of our party doesn't - can't stand, we are going to lose.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

We are a nation of laws, not a nation that ignores laws if it benefits the Democrat Party.

I think most Republicans would rather win this election than have transformation.

There are more Democratic schmucks than there are Republican ones.

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

Even Republicans seem to think that these undocumented Democrats could be made [GOP] voters...and what happens is that two out every three that would be legalized [and] become Democrats. And it's not 12 million. It's more like 20 million...But it isn't just the equation of 2/3 of over 20 million that will vote for the guy who opposes our conservative candidate whoever that might be, but it's also those who will leave us if we fail them...We have to go back and tie together and restore the pillars of American exceptionalism and the rule of law is essential.

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans