Party Quotes

"It is work and personal worth which make a State great both politically and industrially, and in my estimation they are to be found in largest proportions in the Democratic party"

Franklin Knight Lane, Politician

"At the time I belonged to the socialist party, and Hitler came to power"

Douglas Sirk, Director

"And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us"

Jami Gertz, Actress

"Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand"

Helen Suzman, Politician

"I'd like to think that the boring lady who's talking to me now is a lot sexier and more interesting than the one who's doing NPR. You know, studious and reserved, and - I bet you're a lot of fun at a party"

Gene Simmons, Musician

"Debate is almost non-existent and no one is apparently accountable to anybody apart from their political party bosses. It is bad news for democracy in this country"

Helen Suzman, Politician

"I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished"

Elsa Maxwell, Writer

"The Democratic Party will never desert the freedoms of our people under the guise of pretending to protect them"

Emanuel Celler, Politician

"With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names"

Edward Dmytryk, Director

"The Democratic Party is a house of many mansions. It is a body which is extremely important in representing all kinds of people in all parts of the country who have very broad and very different views"

John Dingell, Politician

"Factions are a sign of illness in a party"

Ernest Mandel, Author

"George Murphy tagged that name "Butch" on me years ago. We were all at a party and he went around tagging names on people that didn't fit them"

Cesar Romero, Actor

"I can still picture myself riding in the back of a Bronco to a field party after a rainstorm. My mama will kill me for saying this, but my first beer, I was 15 and I didn't know what to do with it. I thought you were supposed to chug it. So I just downed the whole thing in one gulp. All my friends were like, 'Duuuuuuude!'"

Dave Haywood, Musician

"The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now"

Gary Johnson

"As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female"

Geena Davis, Actress

"That's what governors do, they wrestle with the issues, they find solutions and they move the agenda forward. At the appropriate time we'll talk about all of these issues, while remembering that our party is a big tent party. We lose when we try to become exclusive to one particular set of issues"

Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician

"Talking back and being quite aggressive about stuff and not giving a care in the world about anyone. So it was more, I think, that way and I think that's what happened in that party when I stood in between two people"

Caroline Dhavernas, Actress

"I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee"

Edward Dmytryk, Director

"In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong"

Ed Balls, Politician

"It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education"

Barney Frank, Politician

"I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals"

Charles E. Trevelyan

"I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere"

Candace Bushnell, Writer

"Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration"

Dana Rohrabacher, Politician

"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines"

Alec Baldwin, Actor

"The issue for us is rebuilding a governing majority that is comfortable with differences that can transcend the divisiveness and unify behind the principles that we know our party has succeeded on"

Eric Cantor, Politician

"Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"I want everyone in the Republican party who opposed me to know this: you are welcome to join this people's crusade. Come aboard. You are both welcome and needed. If we unite, we'll win - and we'll rebuild New York"

Carl Paladino, Politician

"I don't think that has to be our choice... This party was born in principle. This party will die if it doesn't stand by its decision of principle"

Alan Keyes, Politician

"The Woman's Party is made up of women of all races, creeds and nationalities who are united on the one program of working to raise the status of women"

Alice Paul, Activist

"The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain"

Arthur Scargill, Politician

"I was at the vice president's Christmas party. I thought that his speech was spectacular, and I knew that it was a very emotional and difficult thing for him to do, but I admonished him for not waiting just one more stinking day"

Bradley Whitford, Actor

"I think the Tea Party movement is great. I think anybody who has been frustrated over the last few years with the Republicans and Democrats, when they were trying to grow government and have spending and we weren't focusing on creating jobs and get our private sector growing again, I think that's when people started to wake up"

Ben Quayle, Politician

"I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government"

Carl Paladino, Politician

"I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism"

Alexander Dubcek, Politician

"One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent"

Alan Keyes, Politician

"Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven"

Charles Williams, Editor

"You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament"

Arthur Scargill, Politician

"I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work"

Henry Rollins, Musician

"Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them"

Rick Perry, Politician

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