Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

Hezbollah is not a state. They're a, you know, supposed political party that happens to be armed.

George W. Bush

Whatever party you're in in America, our troops deserve the full support of our government.

George W. Bush

I saw a threat in Saddam Hussein. Members of the United States Congress from both political parties saw that same threat. The United Nation's saw the threat. I made the right decision in getting Saddam Hussein out of power.

George Packer

Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

George Pataki

We are one America. If we work together across party lines, there's no problem we can't solve and the 21st century will be America's greatest century.

George Osborne

The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

George Osborne

I did meet Mickey Mouse in California, and he seems to be writing the Labour party's economic policy at the moment.

George McGovern

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

George Orwell

History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

George Orwell

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right.

George Orwell

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Therefore, in my incontrovertible capacity as plaintiff and defendant judge and accused, I condemn this nature, which has so brazenly and unceremoniously inflicted this suffering... since I am unable to destroy Nature, I am destroying myself, solely out of weariness of having to endure a tyranny in which there is no guilty party.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In every party there is one person who, through his dotingly credulous enunciation of party principles, incites the other members to defection.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties.

Franklin Pierce

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

Frantz Fanon

A government or a party gets the people it deserves and sooner or later a people gets the government it deserves.

Jeff Lindsay

What to wear? I could think of no guidelines on what we were wearing this season to a party forced on you to celebrate an unwanted engagement that might turn into a violent confrontation with a vengeful maniac. Clearly brown shoes were out, but beyond that nothing really seemed de rigueur.

Jeff Lindsay

For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

Jeff Lindsay

I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

Jim Costa

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

Jim Carrey

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

Jessie J

I'm not really the party person. I don't 'become myself' once I'm drunk. I don't use alcohol to be happy.

Jessie J

I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.

Jeffrey Wright

The line between being a nurturing parent and an over-bearing, damaging parent is one that's very delicate.

Jen Kirkman

My joke is a picture of David Bowie on his balcony in the '70s in a suit in Paris, and unless that's you, I'm not interested. There are very few aesthetic types that I have, and people who look like that are not always necessarily good for me.

Jeb Hensarling

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

Jeff Ament

Every few years I'll party way too much to remind myself what an idiot I am.

Jeb Bush

I don't think a party can aspire to be the majority party if it's the old white guy party.

Jeaniene Frost

You chose to come to Paris, of all places,” Mencheres replied. So what? Got something against the French?

Geoffrey Moore

We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs.