Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jefferson Davis

I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. When men meet together to confer, and ascertain whether or not they do agree, and find that they differ - radically, essentially, irreconcilably differ - what belongs to an honorable position except to part? They cannot consistently act together any longer.

Jeff Merkley

We have our nominee, and it's is Secretary [Hillary] Clinton. I do hope that Secretary Clinton will take into account the huge resonance of the vision that Senator [Berny] Sanders was putting forward.This has inspired millions of citizens - a style of campaign we've never seen before winning 22 states, extraordinary number of caucuses. Now the challenge is to bring the two halves of the party together.

Jean Pigozzi

If I take pictures at a party, I never get bored.

Jean-Claude Juncker

I note that many British MEPs belonging to the UK Independence Party (UKIP) have used all their time in Parliament to work against the institution of which they are members. I would not presume to advise them on what they should or should not do. However, since the UK could not leave the EU fast enough as far as they were concerned, I can imagine that they will not stay any longer than they have to.

Jim Hightower

The [Democratic] party is a bank. It collects money and gives it to TV stations.

Jim Hightower

Some people say we need a third party. I wish we had a second one.

Emily VanCamp

I don't dig parties. I rather sit at home with my friends and a good movie.

Elsa Maxwell

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

Elsa Maxwell

Fight fire with fire. If you must have bores, always put them together or at the same table ... bores have an effervescent chemical reaction on one another at a party. They invariably have a marvelous time trading banalities in the absence of competition. Clichés roll trippingly off the tongue like sparkling epigrams and trite observations acquire depth sinking into receptive minds.

Elsa Maxwell

The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil

Elsa Maxwell

Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished.

Elsa Maxwell

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.

Elsa Maxwell

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

Jay Asher

If time was a string connecting all of your stories, that party would be the point where everything knots up. And that knot keeps growing and growing, getting more and more tangled, dragging the rest of your stories into it.

Jasper Fforde

[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecific condemnation, plus one bonus point for blaming the previous government and another for successfully mutating the question to promote the party line. Mr. van de Poste gets a point for a firm rebuttal, but only two points for his condemnation, as he tried to inject an impartial and intelligent observation.

Hillary Clinton

I care deeply about Democratic party and our agenda and making sure that we can continue to build on President [Barack] Obama`s legacy. So any suggestion that I am doing anything other than manage this primary impartially and neutrally is ludicrous.

Hillary Clinton

Does it make any sense at all that the chair of a national party would want fewer voters to see our candidates?

Hillary Clinton

Thanks to you, we've reached a milestone. The first time in our nation's history that a woman will be a major party's nominee.

Hillary Clinton

There's a lot that the majority, a big majority of the American people want to see us do and I'm very excited about that work. I think the Democratic Party has a record of being better for the economy when we hold the White House.

Hillary Clinton

You may have heard that Donald Trum has long refused to release his tax returns, the way every other nominee for president has done for decades. You can look at 40 years of my tax returns. I think we need a law that says, if you become the nominee of the major parties, you have to release your tax returns.

Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump's talking down our democracy. And I, for one, am appalled that somebody who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that kind of position.

Hillary Clinton

Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership -- when politicians choose scorched earth over common ground, when they operate in what I call the 'evidence-free zone,' with ideology trumping everything else.

Hillary Clinton

I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

Hillary Clinton

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

Herbert Hoover

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Herbert Hoover

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

Herbert Hoover

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes free men. We want a nation of proprietors, not a state of collectivists. That is attained by creating a national wealth and income, not by destroying it. The income and estate taxes create an orderly movement to diffuse swollen fortunes more effectively than all the quacks.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

Evgeny Morozov

A vibrant civil society can challenge those in power by documenting corruption or uncovering activities like the murder of political enemies. In democracies, this function is mostly performed by the media, NGOs or opposition parties.

Evgeny Morozov

I'm rarely invited to start-up parties, but who cares about their trinkets and apps anyway?

Evelyn Waugh

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

Eva Zeisel

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.