Dan Quayle Quotes

I am a Democrat and I love my party and I want them to have good policies and good candidates, so I hope to be supportive in some way, but I don't intend to be any kind of 'godfather' or something like that.

I think the Democratic Party has got to make fundamental choices.

I do think that the Republican Party is in a crisis right now, a crisis of confidence about who we are.

If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."

The Democratic Party is DEAD.

For many members of Congress, the time for choosing is near - do what the party leadership demands, or do what the people have asked you to do. If my colleagues don't mind some advice from a newcomer, I'd suggest going with the will of the people.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.

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

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

It is the business of the President as party leader to do the best he can to see that the declared party platform purposes are translated into legislative and administrative action.

Party leaders must have not only the confidence of the party, but the confidence of the people.

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

You have to listen to people that have chosen the nominee of our Republican Party. I think it would be foolish to ignore them.

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

I want to see a Republican Party that is a big tent, inclusive party that welcomes all people to be Republicans and to contribute their ideas and support our position of providing opportunity to the American people. And I believe he goes in the opposite direction and deepens the divisions that are so pervasive in our society today.

There is hardly any politically minded man who acknowledges and agrees with every point of the program of a political party.

The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.

How one election has exposed the true dire straits of the Democrat Party. It really is profound.

I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with.

The problem with Keith Ellison's message and what you all are saying - and I - and I respect what you're saying because we have been there - is - and another irony of this campaign - is that Barack Obama always won astronomically on his own, but he has completely devastated the party. He's lost the Senate, the House, 30 governorships, over 900 legislatures.

Obama destroyed this party, folks, literally has destroyed the Democratic Party while elevating himself to whatever heights, if he's really achieved them, I still don't believe it, but I'll go along with the flow for now.

And if I am elected, I promise the formation of a new party, a third party, a wild party.

Any [political] party without principles is rudderless and passive.

The Republican Party is in a predicament that it made itself. It made its own bed, and now they don't want to lay in it.