Party Quotes

"My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense"

Christopher Lasch, Historian

"No amount of cajolery, and no attempts 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

"I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine"

Aneurin Bevan, Politician

"Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam"

Ron Paul, Politician

"I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me"

Billy Bragg, Musician

"But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause"

Al Franken, Comedian

"Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress"

Frederick Douglass, Author

"Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns"

Howard Staunton, Celebrity

"Each player, it will be observed, has eight superior Pieces or officers, and eight minor ones which are called Pawns; and, for the purpose of distinction, the Pieces and Pawns of one party are of a different color from those of the other"

Howard Staunton, Celebrity

"I am no party man in this matter in any degree; and if I have any objection to the motion it is this, that whereas it is a motion to inquire into the manufacturing distress of the country, it should have been a motion to inquire into manufacturing and agricultural distress"

Richard Cobden, Businessman

"There's no point for me to party. I have a girl that I love. I don't need that"

Ryan Cabrera, Musician

"We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option"

Peter MacKay, Politician

"I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock"

Michael Reagan, Radio host

"Some of the free lunch programs were still goin' on - based on the last leg of the Black Panther Party"

Kool Moe Dee, Musician

"I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together"

William Jennings Bryan, Lawyer

"The national Democratic Party has embraced abortion on demand. I believe this position is wrong in principle and out of the mainstream of our party's historic commitment to protecting the powerless"

Robert Casey, Politician

"I'm hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit"

Lisa Whelchel, Actor

"People like me who were engaging in brinkmanship with the party economic bosses and the open dissidents who were being arrested were pursuing a common goal in different ways"

Vaclav Klaus, Statesman

"I wish the Libertarian Party would get more play in the media but they don't"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"I couldn't join a party that, frankly, tolerates members who are bigots for one thing, homophobes, racists"

Ron Reagan, Journalist

"Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead"

Evan Bayh, Politician

"You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn't matter what party you're in. When you call your children and you say 'How are you?' - and what you are really asking is, 'Do you still have your job? And are you able to make the mortgage payment?', That resonates across the state, not across party lines"

Sharron Angle, Politician

"It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway"

Peter MacKay, Politician

"On one occasion I shared a bed with about seven other people, but we were all having a party overnight"

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Writer

"I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice"

Mark Cuban, Businessman

"A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination"

David Horowitz, Writer

"They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party"

William Henry Ashley, Businessman

"I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film"

John Schlesinger, Director

"My strong personal view, which I believe is shared by millions of Americans, is that our party should make a strong statement in its platform that the unborn child has a fundamental right to life which should be protected"

Robert Casey, Politician

"I used to be a good party boy. I'm old. I'm an old man. You pay the consequences. I'm just fine with a couple of drinks, no more than that"

Javier Bardem, Actor

"What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"Thom is one of those wonderful people to cook for because he absolutely loves it, just loves it. He loves to eat and drink and he'd be a great guest at any dinner party"

Ted Allen, Entertainer

"The Democratic chairman doesn't need to be a household name. Most people didn't know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from"

Susan Estrich, Journalist

"Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea"

David E. Price, Politician

"Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing"

James Caan, Actor

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