"As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress"

"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?"

"You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen"

"I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool"

"Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment"

"I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago when there was an effort made by a right wing element in the President's party to get him to turn back the clock"

"I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds"

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money"

"Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left"

"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too"

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser"