There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
John AdamsTags: politics dread constitution political-parties
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
Abraham LincolnTags: inspirational politics religion political-parties
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis de TocquevilleTags: political-parties
The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.
Hendrik HertzbergTags: politics theories reality global-warming evolution abortion beliefs budget barack-obama republicans political-parties contraception birtherism
[T]he enduring problem for liberals, as for everyone else, is not whether history will judge them wise or foolish regarding the war on terrorism; it is, rather, the way that the past decade has splintered them away from other Americans. This fracture comes with a steep price: in today's toxic atmosphere, liberals are no less cynical, shortsighted, and parochial than anyone else, and they understand their fellow-Americans just as badly as they themselves are understood. When liberals look at red-state voters, they see either a mob of pious know-nothings or the insensible victims of militarism and class warfare. Yet.... [such people] defy fixed categories, which means that they have to be figured out the hard way--on their own terms.
George PackerTags: politics cynicism liberals understanding 9-11 stereotypes americans war-on-terror political-parties shortsightedness 9-11-10th-anniversary parochialism rifts
All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.
George WashingtonTags: politics government laws political-parties obstruction factions mutual-interest
In 1959, Vice-President Nixon, speaking to members of California’s Commonwealth Club, was asked if he’d like to see the parties undergo an ideological realignment—the sort that has since taken place—and he replied, “I think it would be a great tragedy . . . if we had our two major political parties divide on what we would call a conservative-liberal line.” He continued, “I think one of the attributes of our political system has been that we have avoided generally violent swings in Administrations from one extreme to the other. And the reason we have avoided that is that in both parties there has been room for a broad spectrum of opinion.” Therefore, “when your Administrations come to power, they will represent the whole people rather than just one segment of the people.
Jeffrey FrankTags: politics liberals ideology conservatives political-parties nixon political-system presidential-administrations
If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there's no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We're averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government.
David AxelrodTags: politics government democrats republicans political-parties u-s wealthy political-campaigns campaign-finance donations fund-raising gilded-age robber-barons
...they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve, and if you do, you never get the results you expected.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: politics democracy paradoxes satire elections vote disappointment government government-corruption voting satirical political politicians election political-parties democracy-voting gadfly false-promises disappointments election-results general-election general-elections i-didn-t-vote i-hate-politics i-voted cast-your-vote not-what-you-were-expecting votes
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.
George WashingtonTags: politics history patriotism political-philosophy elections political-parties
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