Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Matthews

I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling.

Chris Matthews

This looking down our noses at tea party people has got to stop,

Gilbert Gottfried

I would show up at a party for Al Qaeda if you said there's going to be a dinner.

Floyd Abrams

The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.

Foxy Brown

I'm not at every party; I'm not seen everywhere. That's why people still care about my brand.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Las Vegas is the boxing capital. During a Floyd Mayweather fight weekend, you can shop, party, stay out late and do anything you want. The city of Las Vegas has everything.

Fran Lebowitz

[On the writers she admires:] I prefer dead writers, because I don't see them at parties.

George Washington

A tribute . . . is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism, which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt [the Constitution]. In these honorable qualifications I behold the surest pledges that as on one side no local prejudices or attachments no separate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests; so, on another, that the foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality.

George Washington

[The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another.

George Washington

The alternate triumphs of different parties ... make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels.

George Washington

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

George Washington

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

George Washington

I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.

George Washington

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

George Washington

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

George Washington

To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.

George Washington

[The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.

George Washington

However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.

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

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

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

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.