Frankie Boyle Quotes

All political parties, if they are to be successful, have to be broad churches.

Believe it or not, we all share the same values in the Labour party, but there will always be differences of opinion on policy - that is in the nature of the broad-church political parties we have under our flawed first-past-the-post electoral system.

There are no factions in the Liberal Party.

Major parties have lived more for patronage than principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to get into power; and once in power, to arrange sufficiently satisfactory compromises of interest to remain there.

I think the Republican party should be a broad party.

The Democratic Party is always going to be a diverse group of people who are yelling at each other and fighting over what's the best way to do something.

I guess it's human nature, as every group breaks into factions, yet at a time when we are trying to be taken seriously, it can confuse people - especially when it moves from being about where you want to go and what you want to do to why the others are idiots.

We all like to hear a man speak out on his convictions and principles. But at the same time, you must understand that when you're running on a ticket, you're running with a team.

What I've said in the past is that I want the Labour Party to approach this matter on the basis of unity.

Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

Politics is irrational. Politics is about human beings with their frailties and perversions and distortions or perception, who prioritise things according to their conviction.

Half our membership spends its time keeping the other half in the party.

I have avoided party “splits” … I know of nothing sillier for us to do than to split our thinking into the divisions that are now part of the history of Communism in Russia.

Men have differed in opinion and been divided into parties by these opinions from the first origin of societies, and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time.

It’s very hard for any one person to embrace every single aspect of any one party.

Actually I vote Labour, but my butler's a Tory.

I was never a Democrat but there are some Republicans who think I ought to be.

I believe in party sponsorship. I believe in Party government as distinguished from personal government, individual, dictatorial, autocratic or what not. In a citizenship of more than 100 million it is impossible to reach an agreement upon all the questions. Parties are formed by those who reach a consensus of opinion.

People are always going to disagree politically, because we all come at the law from a different perspective with different needs.

There will always be, within a party, people who backed one candidate versus people who backed another, and there will be factions in the party, and there's always a little glee faction looking at the difficulty of the other faction.

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

There are lot of issues we passed out of the House that have gotten not only a lot of Republican support - Tea Party and every group within the Republican conference - but even Democrats.

Not everybody who supports Donald Trump, not everyone who supports Hilary Clinton, are exactly the kind of people that you want as supporters.

The party of Kennedy is also the party of Eastland. The party of Javits is also the party of Goldwater.