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"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."

"The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election."

"Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party."

"Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am."

"Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party."

"Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'."

"We don't want to deal with a separatist party."
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"Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed."

"Our members are very much maligned. Obviously the average age is 60 something, but they all have children and grandchildren, they understand what we need to do, they want to win."

"We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all."

"It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party."

"We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow."

"We should be the natural home for younger voters. But today we're not. Because too often we sound like people who just don't like contemporary Britain."

"It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain."

"I feel fantastically excited that we have a leader who fought for the leadership without compromising his quite challenging view that the party has to change."
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