Ezra Taft Benson Quotes
We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.
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I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.
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I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.
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The best government is the least government. In some areas, I'm libertarian. I don't subscribe to any one party; they are all bad.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
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I don't think I was really addicted. I used it as a party tool.
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The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us.
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2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.
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Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.
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I agree that the two-party system stomps on any kind of competition. A great first step is to open the presidential debates to all qualified candidates, including the Libertarians. If that happens, the Libertarian party will experience unprecedented growth.
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I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.
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Every face on Mt. Rushmore was a third party candidate at some point or another.
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Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Schlitz Malt talls. My brother would go out at 7pm to party and get laid, and when he'd come back at 3am, I would still be sitting in the same place, playing guitar. I did that for years - I still do that.
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The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums.
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Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.
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My family are police officers, detectives. My brother Mitch is FBI. Mitch is like that - a stern enforcer.
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Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.
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I'm always going to want to be part of music. But who's to say? This whole thing for me in the first place just kind of happened without trying. I think about things like acting and all that, but I'm not going to force it on myself. I'm kind of shy, believe it or not.
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Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
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We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.
