A Quote by Naguib Mahfouz

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

Naguib Mahfouz

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Naguib Mahfouz
Egyptian - Writer
December 11, 1911 - August 30, 2006

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

Susan George

Party politics are quite upsetting. I've been a member of the Labour party, the Green party, the Women's Equality Party, the National Health Action Party and now I'm not a member of any.

Jack Monroe

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

Brian Lamb

I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.

Jill Stein

All my life, the Republican Party has been my political home. Helping it succeed has been my work for decades. It was never perfect, but families never are.

Rick Wilson

I have never been a member of a Tea Party.

Matt Bevin

I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.

Isabel dos Santos

I am a Wu-Tang member and Method Man, he been a Def Squad member way before I was a Wu member. I was like a Wu member but I wasn't official.

Redman

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

Pranab Mukherjee

For eight years, I've served on the Indian Affairs committee, two years as the ranking member. I've been on that committee since Day One. I will stay on the committee for as long as I'm in the Senate because of my commitment to making a difference for Alaska Natives.

Lisa Murkowski

In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

Leon Trotsky

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

Ann Miller

On domestic policy, one of the major stories in American politics has been the growing ideological and political self-confidence of the Democratic Party, and the growing ideological and political pessimism of the Republican Party.

Peter Beinart

I've never been a fan of party politics.

Gavin Esler

Look, the United States doesn't have political parties. In other countries, take say Europe, you can be an active member of the political party. Here, the only thing in a political party is gearing to elections, not the other things you do. So it's basically, a way of making people passive, submissive objects.

Noam Chomsky

Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up, not a top-down candidate producing organization like the two official parties, working from school boards to state legislatures and beyond. Not easy in the regressive U.S. political system, but not impossible.

Noam Chomsky

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