Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Collins

The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.

Frank Lautenberg

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

Norman Tebbit

I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.

Norman Lear

The complete control of one party over everything - I would, I think, feel the same way if it were [the Democrats in charge]. It's not the American way.

Olympia Snowe

I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a big tent party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.

Ellen Malcolm

If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.

Ellen DeGeneres

I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.

Ellen DeGeneres

I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.

Ellen DeGeneres

Did you ever feel like the whole world was going to a party and your invitation got lost in the mail?

Eric Alterman

Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.

Emily Dickinson

Not if Their Party were waiting, Not if to talk with Me Were to Them now, Homesickness After Eternity.

Henri Poincare

Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, save to the facts themselves, because, for thought, submission would mean ceasing to be.

Henrik Ibsen

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney ...

Heath Ledger

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying.

Ho Chi Minh

I only follow one party: the Vietnamese Party.

Herodotus

Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

Henry Rollins

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to be said that spies practically kept the Party going with their dues and contributions.

Helen Mirren

I don't throw a lot of parties. I find throwing parties a bit intimidating.

Hilary Mantel

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

Hilary Mantel

If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don't just stick there scowling at the problem. But don't make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people's words will pour in where your lost words should be.

Hilaire Belloc

Such are the mass of the supporters of either party. They derive their political opinions originally from some family tradition or some fanciful preference, but they back them with all the passion of sportsmen. In a vague subconscious way they know it is a game, but they happen to enjoy playing the game.

Henry Clay

The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and prescribing its authorities; and that, however, for a time, faction may convulse the nation, and passion and party prejudice sway its functionaries, the season of reflection will recur, when calmly retracing their deeds, all aberrations from fundamental principle will be corrected.

Henry Clay

Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

Henry Cloud

The Bible is clear about two principles: (1) We always need to forgive, but (2) we don’t always achieve reconciliation. Forgiveness is something that we do in our hearts; we release someone from a debt that they owe us. We write off the person’s debt, and she no longer owes us. We no longer condemn her. She is clean. Only one party is needed for forgiveness: me. The person who owes me a debt does not have to ask my forgiveness. It is a work of grace in my heart.

Helen Zille

The DA is the only party in South Africa that has grown in every national election and that trend must continue, and it must accelerate, because South Africa is in a race against time to save our democracy.

Johann Lamont

My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

Johann Lamont

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

Joe Walsh

I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door.

Joe Manchin

I strongly believe that every American should always be rooting for our president to do well, no matter which political party that he or she might belong to.