Party Reform Quotes

We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

The party at its best has always been a modern party.

The Growth and Opportunity Project is the most successful reexamination of a national party in modern times. Te disciplined focus of Chairman Reince Priebus has turned its suggestions into realities that are changing the political setting of elections. No one should underestimate the boldness of these changes and the courage they took.

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

I have been very careful to put forward new ideas - on tackling inequality, extending democratic reform and the green agenda, because I think these are all absolutely fundamental to a successful next period of office for Labour

I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change.

What I'm saying is we [Democratic Party] need to get much more granular.

I do believe that the party needs to evolve, or I won't be a part of it.

My campaign to become leader of the ANC was pivoted on two things: Renewing the ANC and taking back to the values the were espoused and subscribed to by Nelson Mandela, Oliver Thambo, and many other leaders.

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party.

I want to ensure that the Democratic Party moves in a more progressive direction, substantively and message-wise. And goes out and reaches people all over this country.

I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.

The Republican party must break with its long-established instinct for caution and make a bold stand for first principles of freedom and constitutional limitations on government - from full repeal of Obamacare to rolling back multitrillion-dollar deficits. This is not so much a reproach of past Republican conduct as it is a recognition of new opportunities.

The Democratic Party has to transform itself. We can't just pop up every two or four years and hope people will support us.

How are we all going to pitch in to fix this party to make working America know that the Democratic party is absolutely on their side? That's the real question.

I went back into politics only when it was clear that things weren't going as they should have in my party. I was always arguing, I argued with everyone - with my father, with the leaders I had known since I was a child...and one day, it was in 1955, one of them exclaimed, 'You do nothing but criticize! If you think you can correct things, correct them. Go ahead, why don't you try?' Well, I could never resist a challenge, so I tried.

We [the Republican Party] are the change.

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.

… right now the Republican Party accommodates too much quackery, belligerence and misplaced moralism to play a fully credible part in a vital, essential debate about the size and scope of government. The party should be a place where voters who are reasonably concerned about government overreach can turn. It shouldn’t be a bastion of regressive social ideas and foul tempers.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

The Democratic Party is DEAD.

I was the original moderniser in the Conservative Party, telling it, 'No change, no chance.'

Join Labour to help change Labour. Help those of us willing to ask the difficult questions by adding your voice to the debate that's coming.

The Republican Party has to be the party of optimism and giving our children a better starting point. We have to make sure we're broader, more inclusive, and reaching out to every community.