Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Lord Acton

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Lois McMaster Bujold

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

Lynn Anderson

I'm an American before any party preference.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I will not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president.

Lyndon B. Johnson

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Lyndon B. Johnson

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

Louise Rennison

Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties?

Louis D. Brandeis

The old idea of a good bargain was a transaction in which one man got the better of another. The new idea of a good contract is a transaction which is good for both parties to it.

Lord Byron

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.

Lord Chesterfield

The greatest powers cannot injure a man's character whose reputation is unblemished among his party.

Lord Chesterfield

A foreign minister, I will maintain it, can never be a good man of business if he is not an agreeable man of pleasure too. Half his business is done by the help of his pleasures: his views are carried on, and perhaps best, and most unsuspectedly, at balls, suppers, assemblies, and parties of pleasure; by intrigues with women, and connections insensibly formed with men, at those unguarded hours of amusement.

Malcolm Fraser

I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down.

Malcolm Fraser

He (Gorton) is not fit to hold the great office of Prime Minister.

Malcolm Fraser

Life wasn't meant to be easy.

Malcolm Forbes

It's never a good deal when only one party thinks it is.

Malachy McCourt

I think people are so disillusioned with the parties. It's one party with two different names, and they are so spineless.

Mahathir Mohamad

When you have elections in which 90% or 95% or 99% of those elected come from one party, then I think there is some fraudulent act.

Mahesh Rangarajan

They should set a very clear priority for the government. There is such a large penumbra of issues. The party needs to come to grips with the reality that it has to be coherent politically.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Those who think they can revive the stinking corpse of the usurping and fake Israeli regime by throwing a birthday party are seriously mistaken. Today the reason for the Zionist regime's existence is questioned, and this regime is on its way to annihilation.

Mahatma Gandhi

... the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties driven asunder.

Mahatma Gandhi

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Mahatma Gandhi

I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul.