Party Quotes

You're starting to see the beginnings of a shift in the center of gravity away from Bush and his agenda toward the next agenda and the next leader of the party.

Bruce Bartlett
- Leader
- Gravity
- Bush
Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

George Packer
- Party
- Broken

My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.

Robert Webb
- Party
- Birthday
It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

Jarvis Cocker Pulp
- Party
- Weird
I think people could be a bit friendlier. The only real contact you have with people is when they're annoyed if you've had a party - you know, it's been a bit too noisy for them or something.

Boy George Culture Club
- People
- Thinking
- Real
I do not know what the Democratic Party spent, in toto, on the 2004 election, but what they seem to have gotten for it is Barack Obama. Let us savor.

Peggy Noonan
- Party
Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.

Wei Jingsheng
There's no doubt you smoke to calm yourself. I know I do. That's my decision about how I keep calm. I prefer that to Prozac. In fact I think it's healthier. I couldn't go to another New York party where they're all drinking water and on Prozac and telling you off for smoking.

David Hockney
- Water
- Decision
- Doubt