H. D. Kumaraswamy Quotes

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

It's impossible always to be with the majority in coalition government, especially when it's a very complicated coalition.

There is nothing unusual in coalition partners differing on some issues. It is a character of democratic system.

My party will not be with any BJP or Congress-led government.

I know the pain of coalition government.

So the - the part of the problem is not just the rhetoric. It's the fact that we - we're so polarized in what we've done to each other as parties over the last thirty years in redistricting that it's very, very hard to overcome your own constituencies and move to the middle.

And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.

The Senate needs 60 votes to pass anything. They have to compromise with liberal Democrats to spend more money. Even though arguably we have control of the Senate, we really don't.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.

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.

One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.

We will govern as if we had a majority. You simply carry on with your agenda.

The parliamentary regime is a regime of parties

It is not healthy to have a country governed by just one political party. There should be other political families taking part in government.

England does not love coalitions.

All of us know that any substantial block of votes can cause trouble in the French legislature because practically any French government has to have the votes of many groups to have a majority.

The middle in Congress is gone now. That is where we got most things done.

Any legislation that is passed by one political party can be reversed by the other party. The only way to produce lasting legislation in America is bipartisanship. Without it, there is no sustainablity.

I will not sit with Netanyahu in the government!

The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.

If you establish a right unity government, you create an effective platform to make... decisions because you have wider support of your own party.

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

It was obvious after the '97 election that as long as there were two small-c conservative parties trying to destroy each other, the Liberals would win every election.