Party Quotes

"Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying"

Pete du Pont, Politician

"I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country"

Jeff Sessions, Politician

"And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place"

Karen Hughes, Politician

"Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?"

Robert Novak, Journalist

"In general President Obama's policies have been very, very skewed and very, very extreme. Like on healthcare for example, I don't think that trying to ram healthcare through was a smart idea politically, because he wasted a lot of capital and now he doesn't have any of that same capital with even his own party that he used to have"

Jonathan Krohn, Author

"Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something"

Jonathan Krohn, Author

"We have always been a great national party, with views on all the main issues. We recognise that what matters to people most are those things that affect their daily lives: schools, hospitals, transport and law and order and we have plenty to say about them"

John Redwood, Politician

"My purpose was to get leave to bring my party into the settlements in order to outfit and to obtain the supplies that had now become necessary"

John Charles Fremont, Soldier

"The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency"

Tom Tancredo, Politician

"It is simply the view, and a view I think shared by most members of the party, that it is very difficult to have a leader that does not command the support of the parliamentary party"

Francis Maude, Politician

"We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party"

Jim Walton, Businessman

"You'd go to a Pakistani party and the men and women would go in at the front door and the women would go to the right and the men would go to the left, and that was the last that we'd see of them until we were coming home"

Peter Scott, Artist

"At the end of the day, I have one job requirement right now that's been given to me by the Republican Party and, I think, the American people, and that's to fire Nancy Pelosi"

Michael Steele, Politician

"I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power"

Kenneth Clarke, Politician

"Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"Well, I went to school with Jan and Dean, Ryan O'Neal, some of the Beach Boys we all use to party together"

Tommy Rettig, Actor

"Life is too short no matter what party you are with"

Scott Baio, Actor

"My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses"

Richard M. Daley, Politician

"That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert"

Ace Frehley, Musician

"I heard the Bloc Party record Japan before it came out in the UK as they are on the V2 record label. I think it has a great vibe and has great songs. I also think the Kings of Leon are right up my street"

Kelly Jones, Musician

"We had this party in New York, and there were a lot of gay men there dressed up as the characters. I showed up just looking like myself, but it was a real case of shame. They looked so fantastic. We could never quite live up to it"

Jennifer Saunders, Comedian

"I am proud that the Republican Party stands for strong support for the military, and I am sure we will consistently support our men and women serving in dangerous places around the world and their families"

John Shimkus, Politician

"But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up"

Jane Harman, Politician

"Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions"

Evan Sayet, Comedian

"A political party is dying before our eyes-and I don't mean the Democrats. I'm talking about the mainstream media, which is being destroyed by the opposition"

Howard Fineman, Journalist

"The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief"

Dick Morris, Author

"Rest assured that my support for any eventual reform package will be based firmly upon what is in the best interests of the people of Upstate New York, not any party or president"

James T. Walsh, Politician

"It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth"

Charles Edison, Businessman

"We are with you in this work. Workingmen must form a party of their own, take charge of the government, dispose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power"

Denis Kearney, Politician

"The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger"

Frank Luntz, Politician

"The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are"

John Dingell, Politician

"I'll look and pick the best, and the one who can do the best job for the party"

John Dingell, Politician

"But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party"

Vanessa Carlton, Musician

"Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party"

Dylan Thomas, Poet

"I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end"

Edward Dmytryk, Director

"I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust"

Edward Dmytryk, Director

"I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"My victory is your victory. My victory is the victory of a unified party, a party that wants to propose to the Quebec people a country that is free and a country that is independent"

Pauline Marois, Politician

"We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo"

Emanuel Celler, Politician

"The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short"

Eleanor Clift, Journalist

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