The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation. George Savile, 1633-95, Political, Moral and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections, 1750
However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. George Washington
The success of a party means little except when the Nation is using that party for a large and definite purpose Woodrow Wilson, first inaugural address March 1913
Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power. Harold Wilson
The United States has only one party – the property party. It’s the party of big corporations, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican. Gore Vidal
Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people. Roy Barnes
Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party. James Fenimore Cooper, The American Democrat
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 Adams, letter to Jonathan Jackson 2nd October 1789
Party is the madness of many, for the gain of a few. Alexander Pope
There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal, whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent: for a bee is not a busier animal than a blockhead. However, such instruments are necessary to politicians; and perhaps it may be with states as with clocks, which must have some dead weight hanging at them, to help and regulate the motion of the finer and more useful parts. Alexander Pope
Sometimes party loyalty asks too much. John F Kennedy
The range of debate between the dominant US parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class. Robert McChesney
Paul has joined the three largest donors ... He will be our undercover donor ... Around £50,000 to each party. Dispatches: How to Buy a Meeting with a Minister, Channel 4 2015
I created my own party. It’s called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I’m running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I’ve studied the presidency carefully. Utah Phillips
People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being. Václav Havel, The Power of the Powerless, 1986
They marched down the hill singing, and when they reached the Fountain on the Grand Parade they saw another crowd holding a meeting there. These were Tories and they became so infuriated at the sound of the Liberal songs and by the sight of the banner, that they abandoned the meeting and charged the processionists. A free fight ensued. Both sides fought like savages. Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
You see these Liberals and Tories understand the sort of people they have to deal with; they know that although their bodies are the bodies of grown men, their minds are the minds of little children … That is why it has been possible to deceive and bluff and rob them for so long. ibid.
All three parties supported the invasion of Libya, all three parties supported the bank bailouts, all three parties are pro-European Union, all three parties were involved in the shameful expenses scandals, none of these parties talk of Tesco’s terrible human rights record, child labour and price fixing, none of the parties have stopped the banks paying out ridiculous bonuses, or stopped the banks from handing out bank charges of up to £300 a week. Wolvoman80, Government and New World Order Corruption Exposed aka Planet Earth, Youtube 3.00.26
This very narrow choice offered to the American people is almost unique really … Tony Benn, interview William Buckley, Firing Line, The Crisis in Labour
650 of the most despised people in Britain … I can’t think of a time when the people who rule our country have been so uniformly useless: they seem dreary uncharismatic jobsworthies, whose priority is looking after number one … This place has been an omni-shambles for years. Jeremy Paxman, Why Are Our Politicians So Crap? BBC 2019
Boris Johnson is a charlatan. ibid.
Jeremy Corbyn is useless, isn’t he? ibid.
Has it got worse than it used to be? ibid.
‘Far worse than in my political lifetime.’ ibid. Ken Clarke
‘I don’t think there ever has been anything this bad ever.’ ibid. Hattersley
Only 7% of people think the system is working pretty well. ibid.
Surely there are some good people in there somewhere? Surely they can’t all be bad? ibid.
£80,000 a year and a nice pension. ibid.
Who could forget the duck house … An intolerable abuse of the public purse. ibid.
People have lost faith in the two-party system. ibid.
‘The phony election: bogus rallies, photo stunts, vacuous sound bites, and the Press banned – never before have ALL parties so cynically tried to dupe voters’. Brian Gerrish, lecture Alternative View 6 conference, ‘Beyond Authority: Election Fraud and the Rush Towards Communitarianism’, citing Mail online Steven Glover re 2015 election
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections. Lord Acton
We investigate the money going into our political parties. Our evidence raises serious questions about the funding of our democracy. Leaked documents expose financial secrets of financial donors to the Conservative Party. Are the rules on political donations up to the job? Panorama: Pandora Papers: Political Donors Exposed, Richard Bilton reporting, BBC 2021
The Pandora Papers: 12 million leaked documents obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists from a secret source. ibid.
You pompously call yourselves Republicans and Democrats. There is no Republican party. There is no Democrat party. There are no Republicans nor Democrats in this House. You are lick-splitters and panderers, the creatures of the Plutocracy. Jack London, The Iron Heel
Instead of having one name communism, they have two names: Republicans and Democrats: it’s one party ... They’re having a party and you are paying for it. Gerald Celente
Back home in a Gallup poll Wallace was the choice of 57% of Democratic voters to succeed Roosevelt. Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States II: Roosevelt, Truman & Wallace, Showtime 2012
After years of secret slavery the Republican Party and the Democratic Party come out into the open and reveal to themselves and to the nation as nothing but the right wing and the left wing of the same bird of prey. There is not a word in either of their platforms that might not have been written and unanimously endorsed by a convention exclusively of corporation lawyers and Wall Street Bankers. The only difference between these platforms as someone has remarked, is the number of words used to say nothing. Confronted by the gravest crisis in the history of civilization, they have demonstrated, even to their own adherents, that they are without the vision of statesmanship, the courage of leadership or the conviction of patriotism. Allen McCurdy, Keynotes for the Third Party National Convention, 1920
Now they’ve taken over our government, but with Republicans and Democrats there’s no difference any more between the two parties. They [the Federal Reserve and New World Order] control both parties. It doesn’t matter to them which one wins. Because whoever’s running for President will be someone they anoint ... They make sure who gets the money. Aaron Russo, interview Alex Jones
On the issue of Republican versus Democrat: what is it they don’t get? And I say: look, here’s the way you get it. It’s organized crime – all you do is call the Republicans the Genoveses and the Democrats the Gambinos. Michael C Ruppert, former LAPD narcotics detective
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That’s the only difference. Ralph Nader
So the current two-party system has been dominated and bought up and controlled by the elite ... They form a royal arch ... Really it’s one unit supporting themselves, and containing revolution ... We are locked within the left/right paradigm, and then it becomes this huge pageant, this huge distraction, where we analyse every facet of the two political parties, never realising they themselves are simply a front, or puppets, for a larger power structure ... And then the two parties can limit the issues that are debated. Alex Jones, How the Elite Control Politics
Both the Republican and Democracy parties are owned by the same global elites. Dr Robert Bowman, Globalist Conspiracy Plans for the New World Order, Youtube