Anselm J. McLaurin Quotes

There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the cohesive power of public plunder.

Anselm J. McLaurin

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• I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Today
  • Party
  • Problems

• Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Party
  • Sometimes

• I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Man
  • Party
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Night
  • Party
  • Dance

• If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Me
  • Party
  • Dying

• It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Freedom
  • Party
  • Election

• There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Two
  • Principle
  • Alike

• I have to admit, I'm not patriotic. It has partly to do with principle, but it is also a phobia/neurosis.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Principle
  • Patriotic
  • Admit

• The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Law
  • Religious
  • Difference

• One of my favorite - well, my favorite, favorite, absolute favorite event to go to is Alfre Woodard has a party that I call the blacktress party. It's, like, black actresses that either have been nominated for an Oscar or should have been, and it sort of is just a night where we all get in a room and we get to celebrate each other.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Night
  • Black
  • Party

• Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Know
  • Party
  • Brains

• Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Women
  • Party
  • Conservative

• In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Long
  • Alone
  • Party

• The Republican Party of Richard Nixon was called to power in 1968 to bring an honorable end to the war in Vietnam and restore law and order to campuses and cities convulsed by crime, riots and racial violence. Nixon appeared to have succeeded and was rewarded with a 49-state landslide.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Power
  • War
  • Law

• 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.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Black
  • Party

• This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Party
  • Period

• I find myself just in the same situation of mind you describe as your own, heartily wishing the good, that is the quiet of my country, and hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Good
  • Country
  • Mind

• The party was beginning to get noisy-not boisterous, but noisy. It was beginning to acquire that stale air of futility to which, in the end, all parties must fall victim.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Party
  • Fall
  • Beginning

• This is not a confrontation between ‘left’ and ‘right’. I am trying to represent the deep feelings of those many thousands of rank-and-file Tories in the country-and potential Conservative voters, too-who feel let down by our party and find themselves unrepresented in a political vacuum.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Country
  • Trying
  • Political

• I want the ones that stood up for the Tea Party when the Tea Party was being pilloried by the mainstream media. I like the Bachmanns and the Palins and the Wests and I like the Herman Cains, I like Thaddeus McCotter, I like fighters, and I don't like the poll-tested ones.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Up
  • Party
  • Tea

• When I started out, I tried out all my stuff on national television. There were no comedy clubs, but even if there were, I don't think I would have gone to them. I used to do stuff in the bathroom, and then I'd drive down to NBC and do it on 'The Golddiggers' with Dean Martin.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Comedy

• There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the cohesive power of public plunder.

  

  Anselm J. McLaurin
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  • Observations