Party Quotes

"We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats"

Lindsey Graham, Politician

"The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it"

John Conyers, Politician

"I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know"

Marian McPartland, Musician

"The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage"

Sadie Frost, Actress

"And to any new fans we made along the way, I say... welcome to our party. It's just starting to get going"

Richard Marx, Musician

"In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything"

Harold Brodkey, Author

"To-night I am going to take a party to the headquarters of the fire department, where I have a cinch on the captain, a very nice fellow, who is unusually grateful for something I wrote about him and his men. They are going to do the Still Alarm act for me"

Richard H. Davis

"Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush"

James Bovard, Author

"Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences"

Stafford Cripps, Politician

"Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party"

Simon Hoggart, Journalist

"We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight"

James P. Hoffa, Businessman

"People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus"

Robert Casey, Politician

"As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line"

Regis Philbin, Entertainer

"I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't"

Sharron Angle, Politician

"Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes"

Daniel Defoe, Journalist

"Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people"

Roy Barnes, Politician

"Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all"

Rosa Luxemburg, Activist

"For instance, I was a little surprised that the Shiites didn't rise up against Saddam and the Baath party across most of the country when the Americans moved in March and April of 2003"

Juan Cole, Educator

"Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy"

Karl Liebknecht, Politician

"Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party"

John Hewson, Politician

"I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party"

Paul Wellstone, Politician

"This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton"

Robert Teeter, Politician

"That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing"

John Hume, Politician

"In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side"

John Hume, Politician

"Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series"

Neve Campbell, Actress

"As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians"

Susan Estrich, Journalist

"The achievements we forge in this place and in our nation will not be those of one person or one party"

Paul Martin, Politician

"We always felt like we were throwing a party for our friends, regardless of the size or the place, because we actually were throwing a party for our friends. We've always had a very tight knit community"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear"

John Hume, Politician

"There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency"

Susan George, Activist

"What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party"

Paddy Ashdown, Politician

"I was ready to accept the philosophy that the Party is right and that in the coming struggle you could not permit yourself any doubts after the party had made a decision"

Klaus Fuchs, Physicist

"I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible"

Krist Novoselic, Musician

"It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship"

Juan Cole, Educator

"Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake"

John T. Flynn, Critic

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