Party Quotes

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

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

"The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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

William Shakespeare, Dramatist

"Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat"

Mark Twain, Author

"A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"Damn your principles! Stick to your party"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests"

Ralph Nader, Lawyer

"Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

"One does not leave a convivial party before closing time"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"This country must be governed, and can be governed, simply on questions of policy and administration and the French Canadians who have had any part in this movement have never had any other intention but to organise upon those party distinctions and upon no other"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom"

George Carlin, Comedian

"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat"

Will Rogers, Actor

"The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking"

Will Rogers, Actor

"I have seen and endured the sufferings of the troops, and I can no longer be a party to prolong these sufferings for ends which I believe to be evil and unjust"

Siegfried Sassoon, Poet

"If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something"

Paris Hilton, Celebrity

"We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates"

Victoria Beckham, Musician

"Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"Government stimulates the democrat party"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party"

Rush Limbaugh, Entertainer

"Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"I only follow one party: the Vietnamese party"

Ho Chi Minh, Revolutionary

"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"The theme of the party was Neverland Ranch, so guests were asked to come as anyone or anything associated with Michael Jackson. It was all very disturbing"

April Winchell, Actress

"Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers"

Camille Paglia, Author

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