They are basically a good thing, they are in some ways as good a thing socially as other great things like the RSPCA or Royal Marsden [cancer charity].
Lord Feldman 16/02/2011
Conservative co-chair Lord Feldman describing political parties, during questioning on proposals to extend Gift Aid to political donations.
Category: What is a Political Party?
All political parties have skeletons in their cupboard, some with manacles on, some with their hands tied behind their backs.
Lord Birkenhead
Category: What is a Political Party?
We regard our parties as interesting groups of gladiators.
Lord Rosebery
Category: What is a Political Party?
A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.
Winston Churchill
Category: What is a Political Party?, Politicians (as a species)
The best Party is but a kind of conspiracy against the nation.
Marquess of Halifax
Category: What is a Political Party?
There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.
Benjamin Disraeli 1868
After his defeat to the Liberals.
Category: What is a Political Party?
I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.
Benjamin Disraeli
Category: English Identity, What is a Political Party?
Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
Edmund Burke 1770
Category: What is a Political Party?
Put three Zionists in a room and they will form four political parties.
Levi Eshkol
Category: Jews & Jewishness, What is a Political Party?
