Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roy Jenkins

There is a lot of talk about a centre party - and that I might lead it. I find this idea profoundly unattractive

Roy Jenkins

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered

Roy Jenkins

A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

Roy Blunt

Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.

Roy Blunt

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

Rosa Luxemburg

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

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc.

Rosa Luxemburg

Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of 'justice' but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when 'freedom' becomes a special privilege.

Ron Reagan

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

Susan Rice

Iran's arms exports to the murderous Assad regime in Syria are of particular concern. As the Panel of Experts has concluded, Syria is now the central party to illicit Iranian arms transfers.

Susan Estrich

Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.

Susan George

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

Susan George

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 Cain

As a young boy, Charles Darwin made friends easily but preferred to spend his time taking long, solitary nature walks. (As an adult he was no different. “My dear Mr. Babbage,” he wrote to the famous mathematician who had invited him to a dinner party, “I am very much obliged to you for sending me cards for your parties, but I am afraid of accepting them, for I should meet some people there, to whom I have sworn by all the saints in Heaven, I never go out.”)

Susan Cain

The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal.

Susan B. Anthony

I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

Sukarno

Learning without thinking is useless, but thinking without learning is very dangerous!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a third silent party to all our bargains. The nature and soul of things takes on itself the guaranty of the fulfillment of every contract, so that honest service cannot come to loss. If you serve an ungrateful master, serve him the more. Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is withholden, the better for you; for compound interest on compound interest is the rate and usage of this exchequer.

Sidney Hook

No one who accepts the sovereignty of truth can be a foot soldier in a party or movement. He will always find himself out of step.

Shia LaBeouf

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

Shia LaBeouf

There's never been a parent in my life.

Shia LaBeouf

My parents are retired, basically.

Shannen Doherty

I don't think the Republican Party is against women.

Neil Patrick Harris

[Before introducing the nominees for best animated film] If you're at the awards party with the guys who made the Lego Movie, now would be a good time to distract them.

Neil Patrick Harris

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

Natalie Imbruglia

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

Natalie Portman

The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

Natalie Portman

I'm with my friends more than I'm with my parents, but I know more about my parents than I know about my friends. That's something you get out of living with a person.

Natalie Portman

As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.

Mwai Kibaki

I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement.

Taylor Swift

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you're going to get. You know it's going to be an all-day party.

Tanya Tucker

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.