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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So many people counted on me to be the party, I had to move far enough away that they wouldn't want to drive there.
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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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Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.
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Every face on Mt. Rushmore was a third party candidate at some point or another.
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Left-leaning bloggers have had a tremendous impact on the Democratic Party.
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I explain at the parties that I believe knitting is a transformative and intriguing act that can change the life and brain of the person doing it, and that knitting is a perfect metaphor for life and insight into some better ways through it.
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Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.
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In 1991, only two years into the Bush administration, Condoleezza Rice suddenly left her powerful job as the top Russia expert on the National Security Council and went back to California - to get a life.
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We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.
