Elizabeth May Quotes

The BJP is only a front organisation. It is not a political party.

The SNP became a minority government in 2007, then a majority one in 2011. But Labour viewed what was happening as some kind of aberration. They felt the problem wasn't theirs: they didn't have to change; the Scottish people had just gone down this wrong road, and if they waited long enough, they would find their way back.

The difference between the BNP and Labour is that the BNP was always a fringe party, never a contender for power.

There are differences between the Right and the Likud.

It's clear that the Green party loves Quebecers deeply. At the same time, we are Canadians!

The BJP believes in building its individual strength.

Gilles Duceppe avoids making campaign promises altogether so he can emphasize that his Bloc Quebecois has only one objective: to prevent Harper from forming a majority government.

But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

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

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

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

No party is, on the whole, better than another.

There is no party that has a lock on patriotism.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

The Communist Party and the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are the same in some ways ... To stay in power you've got to give people a good life and improve the economy.

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

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

Our system of government in Israel has permitted minority groups and sectarian parties to force their way on the majority.

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

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.

The CPI need not worry about the BJP, which is working for people's betterment, or its coalition. Let the CPI realise that it is part of a very weak coalition.

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.

The SNP are far from radical, but they do have a knack for producing the odd simple, progressive policy that's hard to argue against.