Party Quotes

"He serves his party best who serves his country best"

"I'm not a party guy. I don't carouse very much"

"We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections"

Lord Acton, Historian

"People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready"

Imran Khan, Politician

"Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic"

Friedrich Durrenmatt, Author

"You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in"

Colin Powell, Statesman

"I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label"

Jackie Robinson, Athlete

"Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true"

William J. Clinton, President

"It doesn't serve an American interest. It really doesn't really serve Israeli interests - it serves the interests of the political party that's getting the votes of the settlers on the West Bank"

Chris Matthews, Journalist

"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied"

Manuel Puig, Author

"I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"The two things that matter the most to me: emotional resonance and rocket launchers. Party of Five, a brilliant show, and often made me cry uncontrollably, suffered ultimately from a lack of rocket launchers"

Joss Whedon, Writer

"I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"Foreign Ministry guys don't become agents. Party officials, the Foreign Ministry nerds, tend not to volunteer to Western intelligence agencies"

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power"

Harold Wilson, Statesman

"This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing"

Harold Wilson, Statesman

"We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America"

Al Gore, Vice President

"I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become"

William Howard Taft, President

"When we acquired California and New- Mexico this party, scorning all compromises and all concessions, demanded that slavery should be forever excluded from them, and all other acquisitions of the Republic, either by purchase or conquest, forever"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party, and no nation on the face of the earth will dare utter: 'Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"I think the Democratic Party has the chronic problem of appearing to be weak, of not standing and fighting for what it believes in, not fighting for its own"

James Carville, Lawyer

"The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party"

James Carville, Lawyer

"In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"This position of this Northern party brought about the troubles of 1850, and the political excitement of 1854"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture"

Natalie Portman, Actress

"I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party"

Ida B. Wells, Activist

"I think that America will not trust a party to defend America that isn't willing to defend itself"

James Carville, Lawyer

"Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe"

Joe Slovo, Politician

"Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions"

Bill Owens, Politician

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