Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Trumka

You see, to me, it doesnt really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly dont give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

Rebecca Black

Dancing - that's really what I do at parties. I dance and I hang out with friends. That's my partying.

Thomas Paine

The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has any right to interfere. The practical part consists in our doing good to each other. But since religion has been made into a trade, the practical part has been made to consist of ceremonies performed by men called priests ... By devices of this kind true religion has been banished, and such means have been found out to extract money, even from the pockets of the poor, instead of contributing to their relief.

Thomas Paine

Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing, constitutions. It is not for the benefit of those who exercise the powers of government, that constitutions, and the governments issuing from them, are established.

Thomas E. Mann

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

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

Thomas E. Mann

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

Thomas E. Mann

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

Thomas E. Mann

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).

Tim Yeo

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.

Rupert Everett

If I did have the impulse to be a parent, I would adopt - or foster.

Tom Robbins

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.

Tom Robbins

The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged.

Tom Ford

I swore that I wouldn't be one of those parents who leaves a Bugaboo pram parked in the communal entry hall. Well guess what, ours is there right now.

Tom Ford

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

Tom Ford

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

Todd Gitlin

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

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

Todd Gitlin

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

Todd Haynes

I think when you're trying to get a film together that's had a long gustation process before I came on board and was trying to get financed in various stages, sometimes you're trying to make it more friendly to the financial interests or the commercial interests of various parties.

Toby Keith

I've been a lifetime Democrat, and I'm re-registering this year as an independent. It's strictly [because] my party, that I've been affiliated with all these years, doesn't stand for anything that I stand for anymore. They've lost any sensibility that they had, and they've allowed all the kooks in, so I'm going independent.

Steve Schmidt

That could be the issue that the party - that the party faces as we get ready to potentially nominate someone who`s utterly unelectable in a general election contest.

Stephanie Beacham

I think the deafness affects me more than I realise I think it makes me more tired. I loathe parties. I attend, smile and leave.

Stephanie Beacham

I'm the one by the backdoor - I am not the one in the middle of the party.

Vanilla Ice

I bring people on stage with me. It's a good time, and people love to join in on the party. Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.

Vanilla Ice

I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.

Valentina Tereshkova

The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions

Vaclav Klaus

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.

Val Kilmer

I'm not just an actor born in L.A.. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.

Vaclav Havel

People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.

V. S. Naipaul

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

Usain Bolt

Politics is tricky, especially in Jamaica. There are two parties, JLP [Jamaica Labour Party] and PNP [People's National Party], and if I went for one, I would upset supporters of the other. I stay as far from politics as I can.

Tucker Max

If your parents ignored you, or if they are just not emotionally available, or if they yell a lot, that is a type of trauma.