While a truly national third party wouldn't necessarily be bad, smaller niche parties are ill-suited to our federalist system.
Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?
A national party cannot win an election riding piggyback on the rebels of the rival party.
The Growth and Opportunity Project is the most successful reexamination of a national party in modern times. Te disciplined focus of Chairman Reince Priebus has turned its suggestions into realities that are changing the political setting of elections. No one should underestimate the boldness of these changes and the courage they took.
Britain First, the English Defence League, the British National Party, and the National Front are all guilty of using British symbols and institutions (notably support for the Armed Forces) to attempt to further their own deeply objectionable beliefs.
… if we are a national party, it must be, as I think, because we profess a truly national creed.
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.
If I want back in time and said 'Hey, 10-year-old Jagmeet, you're gonna grow up and in 30 years you're gonna be the leader of a national party.' I'd be like 'What are you talking about?'
The Texas Republican Party is in many respects like the national party. We have different components that all add value in different ways, whether it's the Tea Party on fiscal questions, whether it's the so-called establishment that's focused on economic development questions, moving states like Texas forward.
I don't hear any clear, coherent message [from Democrats]. I mean, when you're a party out of power, it's the time to be a national party chair.
We also need to remember the enduring principles on which the National Party is based – individual responsibility, support for families and communities, and a belief that the State can't and shouldn't do everything.
Then the actual count comes in and not only does that not happen, [Donald] Trump wins, Hillary [Clinton] loses, they don't get anywhere near the House. They've lost the Senate. They've lost 1,200 seats in the last three elections. They don't have a national party, just one election. And in this next bite, Kellyanne Conway is pointing this out to them.
Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.
We have a ways to go here, but elections have consequences ... I think that our Republican colleagues, the Republican National Party, understands this is our new demographic in America as a result of the election. I think they understand if they want to be a national party, they're going to have to deal with this issue. For Latinos and other immigrants, this is the civil rights issue of our time.
You can’ t be a national party in America and be perceived as an anti-immigration party.
I am a lady and the leader of a national party.
We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them.
I did not clash with the National Party. I clashed with my conscience. And in the end, conscience wins.
Malan quit the National Party in protest of it's continuing policy of apartheid:
They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.
Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
The Democrat Party has been reduced to the point it's not a national party anymore.
Islam is a dragon ... the terrible mortal enemy of all our fundamental values and something which, unchecked, will bring misery and disaster to this country.
We owe it to our children to defend our Christian culture.
The reality is I have a job as a national party chair that, one, requires a thick skin. It requires me to be able to absorb the body blows so our candidates can stay above the fray.
The Euro Sceptics are the English National Party in disguise, and they have poor old David Cameron over a barrel.