Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elle Macpherson

If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.

Eric Hoffer

Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?

Eric Bolling

I also point out that the Democrat senator from Maryland, called the Tea Party, teabaggers.

Eric Bolling

In honor of Al Gore, green tea, not Tea Party, but Al Gore green tea. And by the way, it's tree hugger-approved.

Enoch Powell

I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

Enoch Powell

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

Emo Philips

When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

Luc de Clapiers

It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed.

Louis MacNeice

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

Lord Acton

A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.

John Cole

I really don't understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years.

John Bruton

David Cameron says he wants to keep Britain in the EU, but his tactics are so divisive that, if he gets what he wants it will be at the price of huge ill-will in Europe; or if he doesn't, it will be at the price of increased anti-EU sentiment in his own party and in British society.

John Bright

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

John Bright

The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.

Lupe Fiasco

I have a lot of fans in the Tea Party, and they disagree with me vehemently. But they're fans, so we meet and connect and talk, so I'm open to everything.

Lupe Fiasco

I don't really care about the GOPs or the Democratic Party. My point is the people, giving the people truth.

John Boozman

Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.

John Bolton

I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.

John Bolton

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

Gloria Steinem

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

Harry Reid

We must stop the Tea Party before the United States Senate falls into the hands of extremists and ideologues who leave no room for reason or compromise, who dont recognize common ground even when theyre standing on it.

Harry Reid

This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. Im ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together.

Harry Reid

The modern day anarchists known as the Tea Party, they believe in no government.

Harry S Truman

To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

Harry S Truman

The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.

Harry S Truman

The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.

Harry S Truman

Democrats work to help people who need help. That other party, they work for people who don't need help. That's all there is to it.

J. K. Rowling

Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.

J. K. Rowling

But in some ways I think it's braver to do it like this. And, to an extent, you know what? The worst that can happen is that everyone says, 'Well, that was dreadful, she should have stuck to writing for kids' and I can take that. So, yeah, I'll put it out there, and if everyone says, 'Well, that's shockingly bad – back to wizards with you', then obviously I won't be throwing a party. But I will live. I will live.

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter has kindly joined us for my rebirthing party. One might go so far as to call him my guest of honor.

J. K. Rowling

I haven’t got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even,” said Fred, looking over at Ron’s crumpled figure. “Mind you . . . when he missed the fourteenth . . .” He made wild motions with his arms as though doing an upright doggy-paddle. “Well, I’ll save it for parties, eh?

J. K. Rowling

Nobody's ever asked me to a party before, as a friend. Is that why you dyed your eyebrow, for the party? Should I do mine too?

H. L. Mencken

The main thing that every political campaign in the United States demonstrates is that the politicians of all parties, despite their superficial enmities, are really members of one great brotherhood. Their principal, and indeed their sole, object is to collar public office, with all the privileges and profits that go therewith. They achieve this collaring by buying votes with other people's money.