Edward Heath Quotes

There is nothing likely to get you a bigger headline than attacking your own party.

The Workers (Communist) Party of America has been for many years an organization of foreign workers not much connected with the political life of the country. Owing to this immigrant exclusiveness two leading groups arose.... For six years an almost uninterrupted struggle for supremacy in the party has been going on between them. The struggle was, in the main, not based on principles ... principles served chiefly to camouflage the struggle for supremacy.

When are the world's political parties going to get appropriate symbols: snake, louse, jackal, ... trash can, clown face, ... dollar bill with bat wings on it?

Labour Party members must all be free to criticise and oppose injustice and abuse wherever we find it.

I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter.

Had they [the Tories] been in the wilderness they would have complained of the Ten Commandments. Remark.

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.

I have always been a critic of government policy. I was in government for more than five years. Before that I was a critic. Within the government I was a critic, pushing for reform and always at odds with power brokers within the party.

The president already has a Nobel Prize for peace. I think he's shooting for one in fiction.

Dalton Trumbo was constantly criticizing the membership [in the Communist Party], and was opposite to being a loyalist.

Well, I say it's time to take Stephen Harper to the woodshed!

The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

Listening to Democrats complain about inflation is like listening to germs complain about disease.

George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book.

Democratic institutions are necessary and very important, and if I remained at the head of government, it could be an obstacle to democratic practice. Also, if I were to remain, then I would have to join one of the parties. If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work.

With an abusive political relationship, with a political party that's throwing you under the bus, sister, I'm sorry to say but you don't have a future in this political party. You know, what they did to Bernie Sanders is what they have done to every progressive candidate and every real progressive movement within the party. They allow it to show its face and then they use the kill switch.

All parties are good.

The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that."

[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.

Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

David Jolly is the only Republican I could find who's really saying Donald Trump, you're out, forget it, this is unacceptable, this is beyond the pale.

What is a political party but a conspiracy?

The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.