Quotes About Parties

Los movimientos populistas se nutren del descrédito de los partidos políticos y de la ineficacia de los gobiernos. Diría más: del descrédito de la política y de los políticos.

Partidos y elecciones han sido ventanillas preferentes de asignación y captura de recursos públicos, pues en el México democrático sólo ellas dan acceso al poder y al dinero público suelto que este trae consigo.

Los mexicanos descubrimos poco a poco, sin embargo, que la nuestra era una democracia sin demócratas. Del fondo de las costumbres políticas de la nación, más que de las leyes vigentes, surgió un régimen de partidos que acabó siendo una red de complicidades y clientelas cuya especialidad fue encarecer las elecciones y llevar a ellas ríos de dinero ilegal

She was rather less enthusiastic than he had hoped. "Mind y don't tire yerself, that's all," she commented. "There'll be a lot of work arranging a thing of that sort, and if you was to ask me, sir, you're a bit past the age for giving parties!

its major respects the national party is a holding company for complex and interlacing clusters of local groups

smudged with black powder. Every mirror, every painting, had been taken down from the walls. Even the benign and wise Charlie Clapper was disgusted: "The Baileys had a lot of friends and a lot of parties. We've got enough prints and trace to short out the crime lab. For a year." Conklin said, "How about it, Sarge?" "Okay. We're done." We turned out the lights as

My way of being with people is probably incredibly unhealthy, in that I'll be incredibly social, and I won't write a word for maybe a year, and I'll just be with people, going to parties and soaking up stories, and just sort of recharging all of my ideas.

It is unhealthy to have one of the two main parties paralyzed by internal conflict. So, it's in all of our interests for the Democratic Party to rid itself of the cancer of its democratic socialist faction.

Time and again a close election leads to hand-wringing about the need for Electoral College reform; time and again, politicians and parties respond to the college's incentives, and more capacious and unifying majorities are born.

Union leaders argue that pension shortfalls account for a proportionally tiny portion of governments' financial problems, and by all accounts, there are plenty of parties to blame for the growth in payrolls and obligations.

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.

All political parties with secular credentials are bound to align and unite in fighting against communal forces. So, when the time comes, I believe that the SP and the BJP will join the Mahagathbandhan at the national level.

People don't like what's happened to the big parties. They think they've been dragged off to the extremes. They think the quality of leadership is below what a country like the United Kingdom ought to have available. And they want something different.

The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

Back in the early '70s, when Susie and I were first married, we had a little house that we rented, and we used to have parties. People would come, and they wouldn't leave. I used to get so tired. I'd put on the Stanley Brothers, 'Songs for the Good People,' and the house would clear in five minutes. It was not liked; it was alien. It was weird.

Before, models had that rock star life and it was all about going to the parties and having that glamorous life, and I think these days, models are more like businesswomen and the whole industry takes it really serious.

I thought that I was going to have to pay them to do what I wanted to do, that was how much fun I was having. You're 20 years old and you're hanging out with rock stars and going to fabulous parties, and then you talk about it!

Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.

We certainly should support both parties having observers at the polling stations to make sure that neither side does anything that allowed a fraudulent vote. That's a very healthy check on the process.

The older generations are too wedded to political parties, too wedded to romantic memories of what education was like when they were kids, and too wedded to the status quo group that clings to power.

At home, we have fish and greens, fish and greens - maybe salmon steak with curried lentils. No poncy cooking goes on, we don't have dinner parties, we don't entertain.