Party Quotes

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

"I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party"

"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

"Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall"

Jean Paul, Author

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

Aldrich Ames, Criminal

"In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

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

Al Gore, Vice President

"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader"

Harry S. Truman, President

"Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it"

Edward F. Halifax, Statesman

"Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!"

Robert Mugabe, Statesman

"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"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

"We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early"

Daniel J. Evans, 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

"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

"I still party all the time and hang out with everyone who drinks, but I just don't personally, and don't really have the desire to get blitzed drunk any more"

Slash, Musician

"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

"But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions"

Clarence Thomas, Judge

"Voters did say 'repeal health care,' they did say 'reduce the size of government.' But not a single one of them from the tea party or anywhere said 'give tax breaks to the wealthiest.'"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for economic prosperity and that we can be trusted with their money"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture"

Alex Campbell, Politician

"Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins"

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Politician

"The only tactic liberals have is to try to intimidate people into thinking that the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party is not a racist movement, period! If it were, why would the straw polls keep showing that the black guy is winning? That's a rhetorical question. Let me state it: The black guy keeps winning"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Part of why the Tea Party so deeply threatened the elite media is the tea party looked around and suddenly realized, there are more of us than there are of them"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society"

John Adams, President

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