Multiparty Quotes & Sayings

I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?' — Matthew Broderick

Although few people will remember 3 June 1993, it was a landmark in South African history. On that day, after months of negotiations at the World Trade Centre, the multiparty forum voted to set a date for the country's first national, nonracial, one-person-one-vote election: 27 April 1994. For the first time in South African history, the black majority would go to the polls to elect their own leaders. — Nelson Mandela

Ideas come through us, not from us. — Barbara Januszkiewicz

Even a stopped watch is right twice a day. — Anonymous

You're human, that's what I like about you. Well not that you're a human, well yes that you're human but that you're a girl human. — Evelyn Smith

Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty political systems are the United States and a number of third world military dictatorships. — Thomas Naylor

My mom and dad refused to believe that people who had grown up together in peace and friendship, had gone to the same schools, spoken the same language, and listened to the same music, could overnight be blinded by ethnic hatred and start to brutally kill one another. They simply didn't accept as true that less than two years of a multiparty system and competition for power could poison people's brains so much. — Savo Heleta

And despite the fact that I routinely tried to deny it, I felt something for him — Becca Fitzpatrick

Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms from opposition parties and independent newspapers, cannot help but make such an effort. Not surprisingly, while India continued to have famines under British rule right up to independence ... they disappeared suddenly with the establishment of a multiparty democracy and a free press. ... a free press and an active political opposition constitute the best early-warning system a country threaten by famines can have — Amartya Sen

You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance. — Yitzhak Rabin

Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one. — Thomas P.M. Barnett

Dusty, empty shoe boxes, stacked taller and wider than her slim body, wobbled as she pressed her back against them, tucking her bony knees into her chest. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

The pain of WATCHING them!
What about their pain? — Markus Zusak

A decent moustache can intimidate a man, while a great moustache can frighten an army. — Anya Wylde