My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our political system needs changing. It needs to move away from personalities and patronage to a system of party programs and consultation with the people.
Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.
What we have to do is to definitively remove the last vestiges of power from those who treat terms such as 'liberal democracy,' 'free markets' and 'Europe' with suspicion.
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
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.
I don't want foreign policy developed just by one party and ride roughshod over the other party.
But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.
We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.
Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.