John Hickenlooper Quotes

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

The essence of American politics consists of the manipulation of populism by elitism.

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

People’s Party.

Nobody who ever runs for President should be the leader of a party.

There is constantly a war going on between the two parties for the populist vote. The populist vote is always the swing vote.

The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary. This is because, in party politics as in other matters, it is the party membership that dictates the language, and the membership relinquishes the ideas it has been given more readily than the words it has learned..

The two old parties … fight only for office. Observe how utterly both parties in this respect lack program and new leadership.

Major parties have lived more for patronage than principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to get into power; and once in power, to arrange sufficiently satisfactory compromises of interest to remain there.

Simply because something is a populist movement doesn't make it either good or bad.

I think the GOP, the Grand Old Party, the Republicans, they will regroup.

I am inclined to believe that it would be easier to build a new party than to save the Democratic Party from itself.

We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We're the people party and we're going to stick up for the people.

The Republican Party is a composition of the members of the party and not just the leadership.

In my view, the Conservative Party is the party best equipped to defend the British way of life.

As a political party, the Libertarians have always been more party than political.

I didn't form Kulanu to return to Likud.

The BJP believes in building its individual strength.

We realize there is no political party or politician who fully takes into consideration the issues the church is about. This is nothing new to us.

You'll be glad to know that I'm not taking my marching orders from the Democrats.

What the establishment was trying to do was to position me as a Republican running in the Democratic primary.