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If Koizumi doesn't kill the old LDP, the Democrats will. The old LDP system no longer works.
STEVEN REED He basically accomplished the impossible, painting the DPJ (Democratic Party of Japan) as a party ag...
GERALD CURTIS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES This election shows how Koizumi is in a league of his own in his political skills and media savvy. H...
GERALD CURTIS If Koizumi wins, his party is not going to be the old LDP, ... Koizumi has become able to call the s...
ELLIS KRAUSS Koizumi tried to achieve reform within the LDP framework ... But he couldn't do that, so that means ...
YASUNORI SONE Koizumi tried to achieve reform within the LDP framework ... But he couldn't do that, so that means ...
YASUNORI SONE We will object if the economy is being looted. The question is what type of reforms. If the reforms ...
SITARAM YECHURY We have got to stop the approval of anti-immigrant reforms, demand a migration reform that is humane...
JAVIER RODRIGUEZ I don't think either party is the party of radical reform. Both will do evolutionary reform, and in ...
ELLIS KRAUSS Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any con...
EVAN SAYET In general reducing the public debt will require drastic public sector reform. To implement drastic ...
TOMOKO FUJII We are nearly that team that can deeply reform the country, rid it of clans and oligarchs and begin ...
YULIA TYMOSHENKO![]()
I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I shoul...
JIMMY CARTER The paradox is that the Republicans could reform their party before the Democrats do.
MARSHALL WITTMANN Michigan Democrats renew their call for a fairer and more diverse presidential nominating process fo...
MARK BREWER He's accomplished the impossible, ... He's turned the DPJ ... into a party that's against change, an...
GERALD CURTIS In terms of changing the LDP, Koizumi has done an awfully good job.
STEVEN REED![]()
The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what ...
GLORIA STEINEM![]()
In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic...
BARBARA JORDAN![]()
Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health c...
GAIL COLLINS If the next premier after reform-minded Koizumi raises concerns about slower progress in structural ...
KAZUHIRO TAKAHASHI![]()
What's Your Road, Man?
JACK KEROUAC I think it speaks volumes how lost the Democratic Party has become in Texas and how dispirited Democ...
DEAN BARKLEY I believe Koizumi when he reaffirmed his intention to stand down next September and also believe he ...
JEFF KINGSTON Mr. Koizumi remains willing to pursue structural reforms, so long as the economy permits. He's not g...
TOMOKO FUJII The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
JAMES CARVILLE![]()
On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent ...
JOHN HOWARD I'm voting for the LDP because I'm in favor of postal reform. Koizumi is quite aggressive. I've like...
KAORI HAGINO Since (Koizumi) defined party membership exclusively in terms of members' views on postal privatizat...
PETER MORGAN In terms of changing the LDP, I think Koizumi has done an awfully good job. He's getting straight A'...
STEVEN REED While a Koizumi win was priced in, such a decisive victory ... is more than most were expecting. Koi...
KIRBY DALEY![]()
Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY![]()
Let me say this as your incoming chair of the Democratic national committee: I promise you, my frien...
DONNA BRAZILE We've enjoyed very pleasant cooperation with the Democratic Party and other pro-democrats in the leg...
AUDREY EU We need Democrats that support democratic values, not Democrats who help the Republican agenda.
JENNIFER LAWLESS For those who think the current pension system isn't working, we want you to vote for the Democratic...
KATSUYA OKADA![]()
I think that the Republican candidate should consider seeking the candidacy of the Reform Party ... ...
DAN QUAYLE I'm voting for the LDP because I'm in favor of postal reform.
KAORI HAGINO The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has governed Japan almost uninterruptedly for 45 years, ha...
MICHAEL GOODSON![]()
Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and ...
GEORGE WILL In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have mov...
JINATO HU![]()
He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fi...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY![]()
Admittedly, no Republican can get elected statewide in California anymore, but nor can what we think...
ANN COULTER![]()
The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democrati...
TERRY GLAVIN He's already a lame duck, but it would be a minus for his ability to handle the LDP and parliament.
YASUNORI SONE Support for the Koizumi cabinet remains quite high among voters. But he can't solve the problems ins...
YASUNORI SONE Being young as a politician means being energetic. But it can also mean that the politician is immat...
YASUNORI SONE There's no way around it. Koizumi is a political genius. His creation of the assassin candidates has...
YASUNORI SONE I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM![]()
They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC![]()
I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC![]()
I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW The bad debt overhang has this market trapped in a range. It flew on hopes for (Prime Minister Junic...
KAZUYUKI NAITO![]()
Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those ...
GLORIA STEINEM We're going to see a kind of old Democratic Party, new Democratic Party kind of split on this. I thi...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN![]()
You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building...
JIM DEMINT Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happ...
KENT CONRAD Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happ...
TOM COBURN![]()
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mea...
T.S. ELIOT![]()
The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants runni...
ROBERT NOVAK Democrats are in open disarray in the Senate. This is not the type of fight you win by coming late t...
JONATHAN TURLEY [Proponents -- mostly Democrats -- are threatening to tie up the Senate unless Lott schedules procee...
MITCH MCCONNELL If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN If there were a third-party candidate on the ballot who is pro-choice, that candidate could draw hea...
CLAY F. RICHARDS![]()
I am proud that the Senate has come together to address the urgent need for comprehensive immigratio...
EDWARD KENNEDY The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The p...
JUAN WILLIAMS Elections without any opposition and with low turnout aren't good for anyone, not least the governme...
TEODORO PETKOFF The expectation is that Koizumi will win by a reasonable majority, that reforms will go forward and ...
CALLUM HENDERSON![]()
Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has ...
TED CRUZ The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes ...
NICK CLEGG The 2002 reforms were just a recognition of changes that had happened already. It's not reform in an...
ANDREI LANKOV![]()
A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of...
MICHAEL GOVE![]()
What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller gov...
ED ROLLINS Secretary Rumsfeld ... stressed that the president-elect's commitment to continued democratic rule w...
JEFF DAVIS Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And t...
JUAN WILLIAMS![]()
Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Intervention can be effective in the short term, but it doesn't do much to arrest the bigger issues....
BOB LYNCH It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that...
AUNG SUU![]()
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that...
AUNG SAN SUU KYI But even if Koizumi loses, the chances are very small that Japan will change its structural reform p...
KENICHI AZUMA We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Te...
CARL PALADINO![]()
Polls and focus groups show younger blacks less likely to identify themselves as Democrats, and more...
LARRY ELDER![]()
In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is sti...
FRANZ BOAS![]()
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they clai...
CAMILLE PAGLIA No one expected that I would be chosen as president of this party, so this is kind of a revolution i...
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI No one expected that I would be chosen as president of this party, so this is kind of a revolution i...
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI Further reforms mean tough political moves. But with a mandate like this, Koizumi has no excuse not ...
KAZUO MIZUNO President Chirac should tell him that this persecution undermines Egypt's professed commitment to de...
JOE STORK We all have an old house because of the things we have done in the past.We also have ghosts haunting...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
I wish that Iraq had not happened - and that we had not lost touch with so many of our natural suppo...
LUCY POWELL![]()
I'm from the Democratic party-wing of the Democratic Party
PAUL WELLSTONE Until around late last year there was an air that made it seem pretty hard to voice dissent from wit...
ATSUO ITO We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants fro...
LUIS GUTIERREZ We hope that as the evening wears on, we will have enough to govern with the Christian Democratic Un...
GUIDO WESTERWELLE The truth is these Medicaid reforms, which were endorsed by all 50 governors, including all 22 Democ...
BRIAN SCHUBERT![]()
Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with th...
HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA Today's Democratic Party is not the one Mr. Patterson grew up in. You'll see our people focus extrem...
KATON DAWSON![]()
If you want more investment in education and pensions, cast a vote for the Liberal Democrats.
CHARLES KENNEDY
STEVEN REED He basically accomplished the impossible, painting the DPJ (Democratic Party of Japan) as a party ag...
GERALD CURTIS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES This election shows how Koizumi is in a league of his own in his political skills and media savvy. H...
GERALD CURTIS If Koizumi wins, his party is not going to be the old LDP, ... Koizumi has become able to call the s...
ELLIS KRAUSS Koizumi tried to achieve reform within the LDP framework ... But he couldn't do that, so that means ...
YASUNORI SONE Koizumi tried to achieve reform within the LDP framework ... But he couldn't do that, so that means ...
YASUNORI SONE We will object if the economy is being looted. The question is what type of reforms. If the reforms ...
SITARAM YECHURY We have got to stop the approval of anti-immigrant reforms, demand a migration reform that is humane...
JAVIER RODRIGUEZ I don't think either party is the party of radical reform. Both will do evolutionary reform, and in ...
ELLIS KRAUSS Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any con...
EVAN SAYET In general reducing the public debt will require drastic public sector reform. To implement drastic ...
TOMOKO FUJII We are nearly that team that can deeply reform the country, rid it of clans and oligarchs and begin ...
YULIA TYMOSHENKO
I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I shoul... JIMMY CARTER The paradox is that the Republicans could reform their party before the Democrats do.
MARSHALL WITTMANN Michigan Democrats renew their call for a fairer and more diverse presidential nominating process fo...
MARK BREWER He's accomplished the impossible, ... He's turned the DPJ ... into a party that's against change, an...
GERALD CURTIS In terms of changing the LDP, Koizumi has done an awfully good job.
STEVEN REED
The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what ... GLORIA STEINEM
In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic... BARBARA JORDAN
Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health c... GAIL COLLINS If the next premier after reform-minded Koizumi raises concerns about slower progress in structural ...
KAZUHIRO TAKAHASHI
What's Your Road, Man? JACK KEROUAC I think it speaks volumes how lost the Democratic Party has become in Texas and how dispirited Democ...
DEAN BARKLEY I believe Koizumi when he reaffirmed his intention to stand down next September and also believe he ...
JEFF KINGSTON Mr. Koizumi remains willing to pursue structural reforms, so long as the economy permits. He's not g...
TOMOKO FUJII The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
JAMES CARVILLE
On economic policy, my support of smaller government, lower taxes and economic reform is consistent ... JOHN HOWARD I'm voting for the LDP because I'm in favor of postal reform. Koizumi is quite aggressive. I've like...
KAORI HAGINO Since (Koizumi) defined party membership exclusively in terms of members' views on postal privatizat...
PETER MORGAN In terms of changing the LDP, I think Koizumi has done an awfully good job. He's getting straight A'...
STEVEN REED While a Koizumi win was priced in, such a decisive victory ... is more than most were expecting. Koi...
KIRBY DALEY
Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Let me say this as your incoming chair of the Democratic national committee: I promise you, my frien... DONNA BRAZILE We've enjoyed very pleasant cooperation with the Democratic Party and other pro-democrats in the leg...
AUDREY EU We need Democrats that support democratic values, not Democrats who help the Republican agenda.
JENNIFER LAWLESS For those who think the current pension system isn't working, we want you to vote for the Democratic...
KATSUYA OKADA
I think that the Republican candidate should consider seeking the candidacy of the Reform Party ... ... DAN QUAYLE I'm voting for the LDP because I'm in favor of postal reform.
KAORI HAGINO The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has governed Japan almost uninterruptedly for 45 years, ha...
MICHAEL GOODSON
Since the emergence of the Republican Party, only two Democratic presidents, Franklin Roosevelt and ... GEORGE WILL In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have mov...
JINATO HU
He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fi... ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Admittedly, no Republican can get elected statewide in California anymore, but nor can what we think... ANN COULTER
The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democrati... TERRY GLAVIN He's already a lame duck, but it would be a minus for his ability to handle the LDP and parliament.
YASUNORI SONE Support for the Koizumi cabinet remains quite high among voters. But he can't solve the problems ins...
YASUNORI SONE Being young as a politician means being energetic. But it can also mean that the politician is immat...
YASUNORI SONE There's no way around it. Koizumi is a political genius. His creation of the assassin candidates has...
YASUNORI SONE I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
HLONIM
They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned. JACK KEROUAC
I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... JACK KEROUAC
I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi... CORY DOCTOROW The bad debt overhang has this market trapped in a range. It flew on hopes for (Prime Minister Junic...
KAZUYUKI NAITO
Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those ... GLORIA STEINEM We're going to see a kind of old Democratic Party, new Democratic Party kind of split on this. I thi...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN
You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building... JIM DEMINT Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happ...
KENT CONRAD Welfare reform happened with reconciliation; half the Democrats voted for it. The Bush tax cuts happ...
TOM COBURN
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mea... T.S. ELIOT
The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants runni... ROBERT NOVAK Democrats are in open disarray in the Senate. This is not the type of fight you win by coming late t...
JONATHAN TURLEY [Proponents -- mostly Democrats -- are threatening to tie up the Senate unless Lott schedules procee...
MITCH MCCONNELL If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN If there were a third-party candidate on the ballot who is pro-choice, that candidate could draw hea...
CLAY F. RICHARDS
I am proud that the Senate has come together to address the urgent need for comprehensive immigratio... EDWARD KENNEDY The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The p...
JUAN WILLIAMS Elections without any opposition and with low turnout aren't good for anyone, not least the governme...
TEODORO PETKOFF The expectation is that Koizumi will win by a reasonable majority, that reforms will go forward and ...
CALLUM HENDERSON
Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has ... TED CRUZ The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes ...
NICK CLEGG The 2002 reforms were just a recognition of changes that had happened already. It's not reform in an...
ANDREI LANKOV
A coalition with Tories and Liberal Democrats together is a golden opportunity to create the sort of... MICHAEL GOVE
What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller gov... ED ROLLINS Secretary Rumsfeld ... stressed that the president-elect's commitment to continued democratic rule w...
JEFF DAVIS Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And t...
JUAN WILLIAMS
Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past...... ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Intervention can be effective in the short term, but it doesn't do much to arrest the bigger issues....
BOB LYNCH It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that...
AUNG SUU
It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that... AUNG SAN SUU KYI But even if Koizumi loses, the chances are very small that Japan will change its structural reform p...
KENICHI AZUMA We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three.
CARL PALADINO
Polls and focus groups show younger blacks less likely to identify themselves as Democrats, and more... LARRY ELDER
In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is sti... FRANZ BOAS
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they clai... CAMILLE PAGLIA No one expected that I would be chosen as president of this party, so this is kind of a revolution i...
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI No one expected that I would be chosen as president of this party, so this is kind of a revolution i...
JUNICHIRO KOIZUMI Further reforms mean tough political moves. But with a mandate like this, Koizumi has no excuse not ...
KAZUO MIZUNO President Chirac should tell him that this persecution undermines Egypt's professed commitment to de...
JOE STORK We all have an old house because of the things we have done in the past.We also have ghosts haunting...
GARY F EVANS...
I wish that Iraq had not happened - and that we had not lost touch with so many of our natural suppo... LUCY POWELL
I'm from the Democratic party-wing of the Democratic Party PAUL WELLSTONE Until around late last year there was an air that made it seem pretty hard to voice dissent from wit...
ATSUO ITO We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants fro...
LUIS GUTIERREZ We hope that as the evening wears on, we will have enough to govern with the Christian Democratic Un...
GUIDO WESTERWELLE The truth is these Medicaid reforms, which were endorsed by all 50 governors, including all 22 Democ...
BRIAN SCHUBERT
Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with th... HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA Today's Democratic Party is not the one Mr. Patterson grew up in. You'll see our people focus extrem...
KATON DAWSON
If you want more investment in education and pensions, cast a vote for the Liberal Democrats. CHARLES KENNEDY
