Karl Radek Quotes

Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it.

I will not do anything against the basic principles of my party. The Bharatiya Janata Party will function under its declared policy.

It has long been noted that two of the Conservative Party's great strengths have been the loyalty of its members and its pragmatic approach to policy challenges.

The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised.

Sometimes party loyalty asks too much.

Thus it comes about that (with some few exceptions) we have a House of Commons composed of a number of mediocrities who are content to echo the shibboleths of their party, to vote like sheep and to respond to the crack of the party whip.

There are very good people in the Labour Party who I would like to see in leadership.

The BJP decides its own policies.

Believe it or not, we all share the same values in the Labour party, but there will always be differences of opinion on policy - that is in the nature of the broad-church political parties we have under our flawed first-past-the-post electoral system.

Nobody should be surprised that Republicans vote for Republican policy. Just like Democrats vote for Democrat policy.

When I was with the Labor Party, I'd get into trouble because the party bosses determined that some of what I wrote, or proposed to write about, wasn't conducive to their policies or to electoral success.

So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

I was proud to be a Tory Member of Parliament for twelve years, proud to represent Buckingham as a Tory, proud to have voted with my party 99% of the time as the record shows.

Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.

Conservatives don’t seem to criticize their own as much as liberals do. It’s not that they don’t do it. It’s that they don’t do it with the same zeal and enthusiasm.

We must raise our hands against the nominee of our party, and we must do it to preserve the future of the party itself.

The [Russian] Communist Party decided that policy. As a good communist, I have to go along.

It’s very hard for any one person to embrace every single aspect of any one party.

No sophism is too gross to delude minds distempered by party spirit.

For me party discipline is a sacred matter, not just lust for power.

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

One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

This will not be disloyalty but will show that as members of a party they are loyal first to the fine things for which the party stands and when it rejects those things or forgets the legitimate objects for which parties exist, then as a party it cannot command the honest loyalty of its members.