Arun Jaitley Quotes

I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.

Must we always look for the political opinions of our businessmen precisely where they suppose their immediate pecuniary advantage to be found?

… there was partisanship in the newspapers …. Newspapers were not neutral. Newspapers were the political vehicle of a particular group and sometimes they were the cultural vehicle as well. It is also important to keep in mind that some of the newspaper editors were very friendly with … political leaders

You won't get a rational assessment of a political party from a member, and you won't get a reasoned account of the joys of being 'linked' from somebody who's already 'in.'

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

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

A true party-man hates and despises candour.

The biggest correlation you find is with Trump's own personal and business interests. He lives in Palm Beach part of the year, where charity galas are a big part of the life. And he runs a club in Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago, that depends a lot on being rented out by charities, who can pay as much as $275,000 per night to rent out his club.

Equal rights should not be a partisan political issue - so why are all gay leaders in one political party?

Ties of loyalty play an understandably important part in how most MPs interact with their own party and the supporters who have elected and sustained them in their careers. As I know personally it is the strain put on those ties which constitutes the most unpleasant aspect of being at variance with one's own party line.

Senator Blunt genuinely sees everything through the lens of partisan politics.

We are not entering into politics to acquire power.

These days, those who criticize the Union government are being labelled as anti-BJP and those praise it as BJP supporters. Isn't there any middle path?

I chose the Congress for its thoughts, its acceptance of people of all opinions, and its wide perspective. Another reason for joining the party was my family, which is attached to the Congress for a long period of time.

According to me, all Congress leaders are supporting me. MLAs and leaders are happy with me.

I have stuck my neck out to stand with a party whose ideologies are closest to mine.

I don't like the idea of being chucked out of parliament, chucked out of the party, for basically doing the bleeding obvious: trying to stop an absolutely damaging policy, that a responsible political party should be opposing vigorously.

I am a mere filmmaker. I am not even aligned to any political party. I vote for the Congress party, and I root for the Congress ideology, but I am not subject to the Congress party.

I think those who have followed my political life would have known that I don't believe in just blind loyalty.

Republicans don't vote Republican because of Nancy Pelosi. They vote Republican because they are Republicans.

Donald Trump gave up an incredible business career, spent millions of dollars of his own money to run for president in - whenever he became president, the Trump family got out of international business, much different than the Biden family who, whenever Joe Biden became vice president, you saw that Hunter Biden got into international business.

I have no limits to my ambition for the Liberal Democrats.

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.

We are a nation of laws, not a nation that ignores laws if it benefits the Democrat Party.

[W]hen you align yourself exclusively with one party, and weaponize yourself in that party's cause, you're going to pay the price when the other party is in power. That's the price you pay for whoring yourself out.