Party Quotes

"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

"I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough"

Johnny Vegas, Comedian

"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do"

Wendell Berry, Poet

"So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"A system of education, which would not gratify this disposition in any party, is requisite, in order to obviate the difficulty, and the reader will find a something said to that purpose in perusing this tract"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color"

Ernestine L. Rose

"But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion"

Stephen Harper, Politician

"It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption"

Darrell Issa, Politician

"The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured"

Ryszard Kapuscinski, Journalist

"We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to"

Kate Moss, Model

"And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists"

Paul Robeson, Actor

"You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that"

Patricia Hewitt, Politician

"Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great"

Nafisa Joseph, Model

"I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying"

Mikhail Baryshnikov, Dancer

"Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently"

Rand Paul, Politician

"And I don't know what I'd do at a fraternity party. All that might be a little lost on me"

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Actress

"The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn't make it up. It's in the Constitution. I think it's just as important as any of the other rights in our constitution"

Marco Rubio, Politician

"Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job"

Laura Dern, Actress

"When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them"

Rachel Maddow, Journalist

"Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you"

Paul Ryan, Politician

"With the help of dedicated Americans from our party, every party, and no party at all, I intend to mount that stairway to preach peace for our nation and world"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about"

Martin Short, Actor

"I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for"

Theodore C. Sorensen, Lawyer

"Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

"I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back"

Rand Paul, Politician

"It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization"

Nelson A. Miles, Soldier

"I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline"

John McCain, Politician

"The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club"

Howard Dean, Politician

"I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago"

John Bright, Politician

"The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election"

Gerald R. Ford, President

"I don't believe we're the party of big business"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in"

Howard Dean, Politician

"That's one of the things about the Tea Party people. They think corporations have too much influence in American life and they do"

Howard Dean, Politician

"The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later"

Elia Kazan, Director

"The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

"Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party"

Ed Gillespie, Politician

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