Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brooks

It's hard to imagine a party that is not corrupted by hatred.

David Brooks

The party cannot be competitive nationally unless it's competitive in California, Oregon, Washington, New England, Pennsylvania, along the coasts. And the problem for the party is, you can't get there from here. You can't start out where the current Republicans are and win back those places. To me, what you have to do is create a different Republican Party that can win in those places.

David Brooks

The public is not only shifting from left to right. Every single idea associated with the educated class has grown more unpopular over the past year. . . . A year ago, the Obama supporters were the passionate ones. Now the tea party brigades have all the intensity.

David Brooks

Parties that are majority parties are incoherent parties.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

He led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters, and political turmoil, working across party lines for a better environment, election reforms, and bipartisan solutions.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

It doesn't matter what party you come from. The key thing is that you work on behalf of the people rather than on behalf of the party.

Benazir Bhutto

What is important is that a political party articulates the mood of a generation.

Benazir Bhutto

The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.

Ben Stiller

My own parents were touchy-feely.

Ben Stiller

Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.

Beau Garrett

I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.

Beau Willimon

When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.

Barney Frank

Well, many of us believe that excessive media concentration is a subject that ought to be addressed, and it is, of course, the intention of the majority party not to allow that to be discussed.

Barney Frank

Excessive partisanship is the problem. There has never been a democracy in the history of the world in a polity of any size where you didn't have political parties. Even sometimes over the objections of the people who started it.

Barney Frank

The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start them. Nobody ever created political parties in England, they evolved. And there do tend to be two general tendencies that focus around how much government you think you need.

Barney Frank

In the West everybody recognizes the need for a private sector, pretty much, even the one Socialist group understands this now, and so there tends to be debate about how much public sector intervention you think is needed for a variety of reasons, and there are very important differences on party lines that should be fought out.

Barney Frank

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.

Audrey Hepburn

For entertainment, a party bears no one in as much as those who are not there. ­

Audrey Hepburn

Life is a party. Dress for it.

Arthur Scargill

The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing.

Arthur Scargill

You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.

Arthur Scargill

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.

Arthur Rubinstein

When I sit in Paris in a cafe, surrounded by people, I don't sit casually - I go over a certain sonata in my head and discover new things all the time.

Arthur Rimbaud

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Arna Bontemps

How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.

Antonio Villaraigosa

You can't just trot out a brown face or a Spanish surname and expect people are going to vote for your party or your candidate.

Antonio Villaraigosa

We're not a homogeneous party, anymore than the Republicans are. But we are a party that I think has a plan to take us forward.

Diablo Cody

The public's appetite for frothy, flippant blondes has waned, but Paris Hilton still fascinates me.

Denzel Washington

What's a celebrity anyway? Paris Hilton's a celebrity. I'm just a working actor.

Denzel Washington

I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter.

Dee Snider

Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.

Deborah Kass

I am not alone in thinking that we are at a tipping point ecologically and morally and politically. Democracy cannot survive without a vibrant middle class, yet the policies of one of the parties has been committed to wiping it out for 30 years.