Party Quotes

"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 will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from"

Robert Walpole, Statesman

"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped"

Cesare Pavese, Poet

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

"My party is committed to a federation"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

"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

"Party honesty is party expediency"

Grover Cleveland, President

"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

"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

"Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought"

Dwight Morrow, Businessman

"Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party"

Barbara Jordan, Politician

"You don't have to go out and party every night. You can act because it's your dream"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best"

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

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

Rutherford B. Hayes, President

"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

"The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not"

Neal Boortz, Journalist

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

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"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

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

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"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

"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

"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

"I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"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

"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

"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

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

Natalie Portman, Actress

"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

"The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"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

"Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"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

"We don't want to deal with a separatist party"

Helen Clark, Statesman

"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you"

Frederick Buechner, Clergyman

"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 was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house"

Nancy Sinatra, Musician

"But Hale's warning the President about going to Dallas was that there was great infighting among the members of the Democratic party and the Democratic stars in the state and he didn't want the President to become involved in a factional disagreement"

Lindy Boggs, Politician

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