Party Structure Quotes

We are told the Republican party is a machine. Yes. A government is a machine.... the school system of the State of New York is a machine; a political party is a machine.

Nearly from the founding we have had a democracy organized by two parties with wide wingspans, It’s often confusing to people why folks of different ideologies, different economic classes, racial and ethnic communities join under a particular political party.

In a democratic party, where internal democracy is alive, there are bound to be different views.

The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation.

Primary season highlights the parties’ debility, reducing them to the role of referee among contenders. Then the winner takes over the party structure, frequently installing new leaders while commandeering party fundraising lists. The nominees function much like new sheriffs who swagger into town and dominate the scene for a dramatic but fleeting moment rather than like local deputies who rise through the system and ­last.

From an organisation point of view, I want the BJP to be the bright national political party in all the states of India and having an impact on social life.

But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party. Here, the only thing in a political party is gearing to elections, not the other things you do. So it's basically, a way of making people passive, submissive objects.

AAP's Punjab Convener is not a rubber stamp.

There are but two divisions of party in the United States; and he is a very weak or very presumptuously vain man who can think of organizing a third party that shall rule them both.

Without party, Parliamentary Government is impossible.

I am an organization Democrat. I never in my life cast a vote against my own judgement, except I had to go along with the Democratic organization. I have done that. I will do it again. You must have organization.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

The Democratic Party is DEAD.

The BJP is not a party dependent on a single individual, nor is it tied to the apron strings of a family.

Permanent political parties have been born in this country after, and not before, national campaigns, and they have come from the people, not from the proclamations of individual leaders.

Kellyanne's [Conway] pointing out, you people say we don't have a mandate? You don't have a [Democratic] party. You've lost a thousand legislative seats. You only have five states.

The Republicans hardly need a party and the cumbersome cadre of low-level officials that form one; they have a bankroll as large as the Pentagon's budget, dozens of fatted PACs, and the well-advertised support of the Christian deity.

Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture.

The advantage that Democrats have is that they're a big-tent party.

There are no factions in the Liberal Party.

Except two or three parties, most parties are dependent on one family. I believe that only parties where internal democracy is alive can achieve the ideals of democracy.

Our present two-party system lives on the strength of organization rather than of principle. Both parties belong to the same general set of masters who pay their bills.

There should not be a party within a party.

There is a democratic process in the party, and that can be operated at any time. But am I going to resign? No. Of course not. No. No. I will carry on.