Party Quotes

"My presence in the social media and on the Internet is much bigger than many of the other candidates, including Mitt Romney. So, when you take the social media and you take the Tea Party citizens movement, you have a combination there that, quite frankly, 10 years ago, I wouldn't have had a chance"

Herman Cain, Businessman

"All I will say is that there are particular features of the American constitutional system that renders a third party futile - at best"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos"

Donella Meadows, Environmentalist

"At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him"

Wilson Mizner, Dramatist

"Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders)"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare"

Thomas E. Mann, Sociologist

"And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country"

Rick Mercer, Comedian

"Life has become serious for me, although I do like to party every now and then"

Lita Ford, Musician

"At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it"

Krista Allen, Actress

"In addition, as citizens, we must fight in their incipient stages all movements by government or party or pressure groups that seek to limit the legitimate liberties of any of our fellow citizens"

Wendell Willkie, Lawyer

"As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress"

Michael Beschloss, Historian

"But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

"Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party"

Wilfred Burchett, Journalist

"Our party for the longest time has relied on the votes of white guys. I think that all of these candidates are going to improve our party, our policies, and our nation"

Ken Mehlman, Politician

"I'm not a party person or someone who likes to sit and drink in clubs all night, and never really have been. I have a good time through work"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"I made a big mistake with him the first day I shot. We're shooting the scene where I come back from the party, the dance, in the sleigh with Julie Christie and we turn the corner and go past the camera and the camera follows us just a little bit and we disappear"

Rod Steiger, Actor

"When we play "Angel of Death", it's actually a 2 and half minutes sing 'til our party starts. That song is pretty much been played traditionally in the end"

Kerry King, Musician

"It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land"

Jim Costa, Politician

"I believe we're the party of small business"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings"

Howard Dean, Politician

"What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement"

Clara Zetkin, Politician

"I had a lot of friends in high school, but I was never the wild party girl. Never have been, never plan to be!"

Blake Lively, Actress

"The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"Our party may have swung too far right at various times"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist"

C. L. R. James, Journalist

"I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time"

Albert Finney, Actor

"I asked Frank what he remembered most about working with Jackie. He said, 'Apart from the fact that he always called me Francis, I always felt like I was going to a party, instead of work. It was such a blast.'"

Audrey Meadows, Actress

"No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"The actual gap between Labor, Likud and the new central party is microscopic"

Amos Oz, Writer

"I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do"

Allen West, Politician

"The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth"

Stefan Zweig, Writer

"It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election"

Malcolm Wallop, Politician

"In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity"

Lauren Bacall, Actress

"Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show"

Marion Ross, Actor

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