Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dalai Lama

But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice.

Dalai Lama

I really do not want to carry some kind of party function.

If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.

Dick Morris

The Democratic Party opposes tax cuts but it cannot say so publicly. Thus, it is forced to support the idea of lowering the tax burden but using class warfare rhetoric to dispute the allocation of the relief.

Dick Morris

President Obama's recommended reduction in the tax deduction for charitable giving reflects his fundamental belief that only the government can or should help the poor. He wants to keep the impoverished directly dependent on the government - and the Democratic Party - for their daily bread.

Dick Morris

The opposing party rarely causes so much angst as does one's own.

Dick Morris

The key to controlling your own political party, so that it does not eat you alive, is to realize that while Democratic and Republican leaders differ sharply, their voters do not.

Dick Morris

The reapportionment of 2002 designed congressional districts that favored incumbents of both parties, leaving virtually no room for challengers to be elected. Of 435 members of the House of Representatives, only four incumbents lost to nonincumbents of the other party. In all, 96 percent of incumbents were re-elected. (It was only 90 percent in 1992 and 1982 after the previous reapportionments.)

Delmore Schwartz

Literary Party: A traffic jam of the lost waiting for the ferry across the Styx.

David Ortiz

My parents always told me to stay away from trouble. When I moved away from them at a young age, I was fine because they taught me how to do everything right.

David O. McKay

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

David Mamet

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

Darrell Issa

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.

Darrell Issa

I support the framework that the bipartisan group of senators are working on...We have to remember the 11 million people who are here are people...[i]t's what Abraham Lincoln would have said, it is what the Republican Party stands for. It is the reason we have to get it right on who stays and who goes.

Darrell Issa

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

Dannel Malloy

If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

Danny Bonaduce

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent.

Danica Patrick

At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.

Condoleezza Rice

I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God.

Clark Gregg

The great thing about Coulson is that he's a little bit like a party game, where the next person who gets ahold of him gets to write another sentence. I'm constantly learning more and more about the guy.

Clarence Thomas

But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.

Clemence Poesy

In Los Angeles, you feel like everything revolves around the movies. In Paris, you still have other things to do.

Colin Firth

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

Clement Attlee

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

Daphne du Maurier

there's something about Paris that gives you a mental slap all the time, and you can't just sit still and do nothing. You've got to work, to keep up with the pace, the sting in the atmosphere.

Dante Alighieri

You sure know how to throw a party! No food, no drinks, and the only babe just left.

Dan Rather

Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder.

Dan Quayle

We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.

Dan Quayle

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

Dan Quayle

Investments - particularly those that involve the change of control of a company - only work when they work well for all parties involved.

Dan Quayle

The two-party system has served America very well. We always have political movements one way or another but the evolution of a lasting third party probably will not happen.

Danielle Fishel

I went to college parties when I was at an appropriate age to go to college parties.

Danielle Fishel

I'm a homebody. I don't really like the Hollywood parties, and go out just to be seen. That's not really me.