Antony Jay Quotes

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

Governments propose, and oppositions dispose.

Elections have consequences.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

Civics is not only how to run the country before it's your turn to run the country; it is, in fact, the study of power, practical political power. And you must start that process at an age level when kids' brains are still open and malleable.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

Politics is applesauce.

The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

The way to help this country is to limit Republican power.

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.

The [political] parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government.

Oppositions clean and purify those in office and we in the opposition are in fact the detergents of democracy.

His Majesty's Opposition

I happen to be one of those people who do not believe in muIti-party democracy.

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

There is one thing, too apt to be forgotten, which it much behooves us to remember: In the Colonies, as everywhere else in this world, the vital point is not who decides, but what is decided on!

…to make a commonwealth is to divide it into parties, which setteth them at perpetual variance, the one party endeavouring to preserve their eminence and inequality, and the other to attain their equality.

I am for the Party that is out of Power

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it.

The media are the opposition party.

The vote controls everything that you do.

Politics isn't fun.

I find the Democratic party overall, on a macro level, to be institutionally corrupt.