William L. Marcy Quotes

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.

In former days all appointments to the bureaucracy were made by the political party in power. When that party was defeated, all the bureaucrats in office were immediately thrown out and their places were filled by faithful heelers of the victorious party. It was not a very noble system. It was not conducive to efficient governmental administration…. It did have certain virtues, however. It prevented anyone from becoming a bureaucrat for life and so losing completely the point of view of the man on the street. It also permitted the elected officials to reward their political workers by changing, instead of increasing, the bureaucracy.

Can you let me know what positions you have at your disposal with which to reward deserving Democrats?

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats.

So if 1960 had occurred under the old convention system, Kennedy would have had a very hard time getting the Democratic nomination because he would have been rejected by all those people who had worked with him in Washington.

I get a kick out of Democrats thinking they know how handicap a GOP race.

I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats.

Republicans will take on people in the interest of power. Democrats will take on power in the interests of people.

It is a handicap to any man to succeed a member of his own party as President. He has little patronage with which to reward his personal supporters.

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.

The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

A lot of times, politicians will go to where their strongest force is and do things for them, and that's the type of thing they do that I find offensive.

Donald Trump at the head of the Republican ticket affords Democrats a great opportunity.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says nice words but he's really all about looking out for his rich and powerful friends, just like the Conservatives.

I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.

Fine Gael needs to be Fine Gael and needs to stand its ground. It should not sacrifice its politics for position in government.

For far too long, Democrats have hailed themselves as the party of women. As Republicans, we know their so-called monopoly on being the party of women is false, and it is a mindset I intend to change.

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

I am the Democratic Party's absolutely worst nightmare. Why is that? Well, you see, I am a black conservative Republican running against one of the most vulnerable Democrats in America in 2016.

Democrats should never publicly criticize Obama.

The National Action Party, in many ways, emulated the PRI in the way in which it conducted itself in government, supporting corporatist leaders, supporting corrupt oil worker union leaders.

Both parties act in their political self-interest. Indeed, that's the purpose of a political party. But unlike Democrats, at least Republicans are honest about it.

Over the years, Democrats have had a lot of very talented individuals, but they have lacked fighters.

I profoundly believe that the Democratic Party is the only vehicle we have to put a check on Donald Trump.