Party Quotes: Celebrate Life with a Bang

"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party"

"The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity"

Anna Julia Cooper, Educator

"Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party"

Joseph Stalin, Leader

"In France, that let down the barriers more than a hundred years ago, the feeling of antipathy is still strong enough to sustain an anti-Jewish political party"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy"

Alan Jackson, Musician

"I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't party"

Stephanie Mills, Musician

"We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"It would be simply suicidal to French Canadians to form a party by themselves"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life"

John Stuart Mill, Philosopher

"Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

"And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech"

Camille Paglia, Author

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

Robert Byrne, Celebrity

"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"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"Whereas Jeremy is just the opposite: always moving because he's never really thinking of anything and the kind of guy you'd worry inviting to a dinner party because he says what he thinks. He can be insulting at times but doesn't mean to be"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

"Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government"

Bill Scott, Actor

"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"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"This is very interesting because the Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you're throwing your vote away"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"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"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness"

Saul Williams, Musician

"I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"When neither party can give checkmate, the game is drawn"

Howard Staunton, Celebrity

"Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win"

Roscoe Conkling, Politician

"In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis"

Robert Casey, Politician

"Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together"

Susan Estrich, Journalist

"I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that"

Glenn Beck, Journalist

"I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me"

Rod Taylor, Actor

"The best number for a dinner party is two; myself and a dam' good head waiter"

Nubar Gulbenkian, Poet

"Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't"

Patrick Murray, Actor

"The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral"

Simon Hoggart, Journalist

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

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked"

Donna Rice, Celebrity

"When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line"

Daniel Hannan, Politician

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