Party Quotes

"The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican"

"The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans"

Rudy Giuliani, Politician

"All of the candidates agree that the Democratic Party needs to undergo fundamental reforms"

Martin Frost, Politician

"Rosemary was a little nervous about going onstage, but she went on with us. I saw her at a party, and a couple of months later they called me about doing the act"

Margaret Whiting, Musician

"Some in my party threaten to send a message that they don't know a just war when they see it, and more broadly that they're not prepared to use our military strength to protect our security and the cause of freedom"

Joe Lieberman, Politician

"Tell us exactly - certainly our listeners - why does it appear that some folks, certainly in the Democratic Party and in the news media - seem to be afraid of you?"

Tony Brown

"The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable"

Manmohan Singh, Statesman

"But I made no efforts to organize my supporters to hold on to the apparatus. Consequently I was soon expelled and my followers, who did not change coats overnight, quietly left or were expelled from the party"

Earl Browder, Activist

"Ladies be seated, the party has only begun"

Johnny Olson, Entertainer

"There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They're too concerned with blasting each other"

Steve Chabot, Politician

"We have to be thankful to the Czechs that they did their duty. The Czech Republic won, I can't believe it. It was a huge party with all the people here"

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Athlete

"In this context, I believe it is an imperative for the new President to select and install his team as quickly as possible, and this does not imply that he must or should appoint members of the 'other' party to his Cabinet, which could contribute to inaction and inefficiency"

Richard V. Allen, Public Servant

"My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith"

James P. Moran, Politician

"I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe"

Richard Parks Bland, Politician

"The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union"

Giovanni Agnelli, Designer

"Whatever labels may be attached to the fifteen charges brought against me, they all arise from my having been a member of the Communist Party and from my activities as a member"

Bram Fischer, Lawyer

"Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime"

John Carter, Politician

"They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country"

Tom Tancredo, Politician

"The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters"

Tom Tancredo, Politician

"So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else"

Charles Evers, Activist

"I remained Ryan's companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens"

Tatum O'Neal, Actress

"Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map"

Silvan Shalom, Politician

"The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life"

Roy Jenkins, Politician

"When I consider what it was that moved me to join the Communist Party, I have to cast my mind back for more than a quarter of a century to try and ascertain what precisely my motives at that time were"

Bram Fischer, Lawyer

"There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party"

John Hall

"Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I'm alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing"

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Musician

"We are spending more money on bond holders than we are on our own citizens. It took 204 years to have this happen. The other party will not even allow a recorded vote on this issue so that we can see how people stand on that issue"

Jim Cooper, Politician

"If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time"

Elle Macpherson, Model

"No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea"

Kim Jong Il, Leader

"So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum"

Rudy Giuliani, Politician

"This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the Tea Party can go straight to hell"

Maxine Waters, Politician

"Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future"

Harriet Harman, Politician

"The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent"

Matt Blunt, Politician

"In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party"

Matt Blunt, Politician

"The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads"

Wes Boyd, Activist

"For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair"

Tim Yeo, Politician

"It was way out in the woods in a beautiful, huge log studio. Keith Richards came in and did the vocals with Levon. Again, a big party, but we did get a good cut out of it"

Scotty Moore, Musician

"You know, I respect what Howard Dean has been able to do. It's good for our party. But I've got to tell you this: If money alone decided presidential nominations, Phil Gramm would have been nominated in '96"

Joe Lieberman, Politician

"The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more"

Richard Neal, Politician

"We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow"

Francis Maude, Politician

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