The Tea Party movement and the Occupy movement were both, in a sense, complaining about the same thing, namely the use of public money to rescue failed banks.
Operating from 1975 to 1979, S-21 became the most infamous of 196 such prison camps the Khmer Rouge established throughout Cambodia, primarily because so many of its prisoners were the purged party loyal - and because Duch's methods were so stunningly brutal.
One of the things I'm keen on doing is really revealing the degree to which the conservative movement, and by extension the Republican Party, has become a racket.
I believe that in order to sustain a governing majority, the Democratic Party has got to learn that it can govern without raising taxes.
L. Ram Saran Das was a member of the revolutionary party which was held responsible for many a violent deed. But this by no means proves that revolutionaries are bloodthirsty monsters, seeking pleasure in destruction.
Hunger has no ideology. It does not respond to party or to rant. Hunger, in short, is not a red state/blue state problem.
I was exceptionally opinionated as a teenager, never afraid to rant and ruin a birthday party or cinema trip.
I loved to party with the Rat Pack; they were so much fun.
The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard.
With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.
The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.
Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).
If there's a local reeling party, I might go to that.
I think the GOP, the Grand Old Party, the Republicans, they will regroup.
Once the religious right got their beachhead in the Republican Party in 1980, they expanded it. Even Barry Goldwater was extremely hostile to the religious right, but Reagan catered to them. The religious right then expanded their base and that drove the moderates out.
We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.
For decades, the Congress party has used its power to make Nehru appear as a giant, rendering all other political personalities small before him.
In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.
In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.
The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways.
