Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Schumer

We as a party are going to be the broom that sweeps things clean.

Adam Brown

We would be very surprised if he says anything that deviates from the party line.

William Shakespeare

I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table." Macbeth

David Letterman

Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party into the 16th century.

David Blunkett

It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off

David Mamet

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

Darrell Issa

The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.

Darrell Issa

I support the framework that the bipartisan group of senators are working on...We have to remember the 11 million people who are here are people...[i]t's what Abraham Lincoln would have said, it is what the Republican Party stands for. It is the reason we have to get it right on who stays and who goes.

Darrell Issa

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption

Dannel Malloy

If a Democrat took Republicans on rudely, they wouldn't be elevated in the Democratic Party. There's a different standard. We're supposed to be polite to people.

Danica Patrick

At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.

Clark Gregg

The great thing about Coulson is that he's a little bit like a party game, where the next person who gets ahold of him gets to write another sentence. I'm constantly learning more and more about the guy.

Clarence Thomas

But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their opinions.

Colin Firth

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

Clement Attlee

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you're half-way to a dictatorship.

Dante Alighieri

You sure know how to throw a party! No food, no drinks, and the only babe just left.

Dan Rather

Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder.

Dan Quayle

We do, in former chairman Lee Atwater's words, offer the party as a big tent, and therefore that message has to be clear. How we do that within the platform, the preamble to the platform or whatnot, that remains to be seen. But that message will have to be articulated with great clarity.

Dan Quayle

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

Dan Quayle

Investments - particularly those that involve the change of control of a company - only work when they work well for all parties involved.

Dan Quayle

The two-party system has served America very well. We always have political movements one way or another but the evolution of a lasting third party probably will not happen.

We are spending all of our time with this petition drive. We want to make sure we have a party before we get into a campaign.

To that end, the party will be supportive.

Bart Stupak

The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.

Doris Lessing

Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others. It is a heritage of communism, but they don't seem to see this.

Ludwig von Mises

Everybody thinks of economics whether he is aware of it or not. In joining a political party or in casting his ballot, the citizen implicitly takes a stand upon essential economic theories.

Ludwig von Mises

The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again.

Ludwig von Mises

There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in population. The greater the amount of capital invested per head of the worker, the more and better goods can be produced and consumed. This is what capitalism, the much abused profit system, has brought about and brings about daily anew. Yet, most present-day governments and political parties are eager to destroy this system.

Ludwig von Mises

The gold standard makes the money's purchasing power independent of the changing, ambitions and doctrines of political parties and pressure groups. This is not a defect of the gold standard; it is its main excellence.

Ludwig von Mises

Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.

Ludwig von Mises

There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the highest standard of living ever attained. Full government control of all activities of the individual is virtually the goal of both national parties.

Ludwig von Mises

In spite of the anticapitalistic policies of all governments and of almost all political parties, the capitalist mode of production

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.