Malcolm Wallop Quotes

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

To be a party you have to have a national message.

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.

Senator McConnell is by all accounts a decent person. He's pretty conservative, too.

I always start my discussions with the Tea Party groups with telling them, 'you know I have only three words for you: God. Bless. You.' Because the Tea Party's bringing the Republican party back to a more conservative base.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

Nobody who ever runs for President should be the leader of a party.

Republicans are the party of the rich. The Democrats are the party of the people.

The difference between eastern Europe and the United States is that the United States still has a Communist party.

This policy and drill [of political parties], first organized by Thomas Jefferson, first accomplish his election, and established the Virginia Dynasty of twenty-four years, a perpetual practical contradiction of its own principles.

We are Republicans, and don't propose to have our party identify itself with the party whose antecedents are rum, Romanism, and rebellion.

Sometimes political parties have a very short window to influence public policy

I have long held that this is a one party government, the incumbent party.

The Democrats fought with the conservatives. The Republicans fought with the liberals. The Bull Moosers fought with everybody.

I'm a fellow that likes small parties, and the Republican Party is about the size I like.

In the field of actual politics, parties are a necessity and organization is essential. It is the duty of the citizen, therefore, to support the party that stands for right policies and to adhere closely to its official organization. Loyalty should be rewarded by positions within the gift of the party; and disloyalty should be looked upon as politician treason.

A man of sound political instincts can no more subscribe to the doctrine of absolute independence of party on the one hand than to that of unquestioning party allegiance on the other…. If we had no party allegiance, our politics would become mere windy anarchy, and, under present conditions, our government could hardly continue at all. If we had no independence, we should always be running the risk of the most degraded kind of despotism,—the despotism of the party boss and the party machine.

In our system today, many people don’t have to win general elections; they just have to win primaries.

The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the center of politics was Congress.

Government stimulates the democrat party.

I think the best thing that can happen to the Republican Party is that it is identified as a party organized around a set of principles, ideals and ideas for our future.

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

I know Obama knows better than George W. Bush.

The BJP decides its own policies.

While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.