Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gail Collins

I used to like John McCain, too, but I must admit that was because he was bucking his party to do things I agreed with. I would not have had that reaction if, say, Bernie Sanders decided to rebel out of principle and support privatizing Social Security.

Gail Collins

Now my poor hometown is being castigated as the center of an IRS scandal. Humble workers at the Cincinnati office targeted Tea Party groups and other conservative organizations for special scrutiny when those groups applied for tax-exempt status. There's no conceivable excuse for that. It was deeply, deeply wrong.

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.

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.

Epictetus

Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself not has forethought far anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fourth party admit things on earth as well as in heaven, but only in general, and not with respect to each individual. A fifth, of whom were Ulysses and Socrates, are those that cry: -- I move not without Thy knowledge!

Emily Dickinson

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

Ellen Wilkinson

Unemployment is bigger than a political party. It is a national danger and a national scandal.

Katharine Whitehorn

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

Katharine Hepburn

All my life, I've stayed at parties too long because I didn't know when to go.

Justin Hartley

I've certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous - wonderful people - but they're high rollers with tons of money.

Judy Chicago

Because we are denied knowledge of our history, we are deprived of standing upon each other's shoulders and building upon each other's hard earned accomplishments. Instead we are condemned to repeat what others have done before us and thus we continually reinvent the wheel. The goal of The Dinner Party is to break this cycle.

Kate Morton

But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.

Kate Moss

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

Leona Lewis

I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there!

Lawrence Wilkerson

Let me be candid, my party is full of racists

Lauren Bacall

They think actors are freaks - that we're a lot of drunks who party all the time and never work. Well, I for one work my tail off.

John Key

We also need to remember the enduring principles on which the National Party is based – individual responsibility, support for families and communities, and a belief that the State can't and shouldn't do everything.

John Kasich

The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction and mental illness and the cost of prescription drugs and healthcare and student debt and all of these things are very personal to people now.

John Kasich

I don't want to comment on media outlets, but I will tell you that if the Republican Party does not evolve, the Republican Party is going to die.

John Kasich

If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.

John Kasich

I do believe that the party needs to evolve, or I won't be a part of it.

John Kasich

The republican party is my vehicle, not my master.

John Keats

What occasions the greater part of the world's quarrels? Simply this: Two minds meet and do not understand each other in time enough to prevent any shock of surprise at the conduct of either party.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The accepted ideas of any period are singularly those that serve the dominant economic interest...What economists believe and teach, whether in the United States or in the Soviet Union, is rarely hostile to the institutions - the private business enterprise, the Communist Party - that reflect the dominant economic power. Not to notice this takes effort, although many succeed.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

John Cusack

If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.

John Cusack

Poets are political, they have to be reflections of their times [because] they're living in their times. Poetry is political in that it's standing in opposition to fascism. Good poetry asks a bunch of questions and asks the audience to interact with themselves or see themselves in it; maybe you like it or you don't like it. But the fascist sort of stuff plays on your fears and tells you to jump on the party line and gives some simple excuses - blame this person.