Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.
If elected, I would not be the mere president of a party - I would endeavor to act independent of party domination and should feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.
Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that's only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway.
I would give the people of America to their first opportunity to elect a president who doesn't belong to either party since George Washington.
There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.
The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.
I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.
If we would leave parties to the politicians, and would vote not for the party, not even for men, but for the city, and the State, and the nation, we should rule parties, and cities, and States, and nation.