Party Quotes

• The question is if Mr. Martin will realize that he needs the support of other parties to get things done or not. We will be putting some proposals in front of the House and convince other parties to support them. However, at the present time there is no discussion of some sort of an agreement,

  

  Jack Layton
  • Time
  • Done
  • House

• But there is something seriously problematic about radicals and progressives in American politics. Some say it's the two-party system that squashes third parties. Some say that it's the potentiality or expanse of the middle class that marginalizes people that want to reform the system itself. Some make a sort of psychological analysis, that the left doesn't want to win, that success means co-optation. All of those things have some merit.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • People
  • American
  • Success

• It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

  

  B. J. Novak
  • Positive
  • Years
  • Brave

• There is no conservative party in Washington. There is a Democratic Party of tax-and-spend and a Republican Party of guns and butter and tax cuts, too. Washington is all accelerator, the brakes are gone.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Party

• I like people. That's me. I like people on the street, and I also happen to like other people who have power. But I'll go to a party and realise I haven't spoken to anybody who can do anything for me.

  

  John Polson
  • People
  • Power
  • Party

• John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.

  

  Artur Davis
  • Kids
  • America
  • Worry

• Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB.

  

  Martin Cruz Smith
  • Party

• Bitcoin has a core technological innovation: The ability to publicly verify ownership, instantly transfer that ownership, and do so without the need for a trusted third party.

  

  Fred Ehrsam
  • Party
  • Innovation

• For me, I've got no interest in being a celebrity, and I have no interest in doing photographs, going to this party or that.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Party
  • Celebrity

• I am not afraid to cross the party line. I never have been.

  

  Patty Judge
  • Party

• I'll listen to the people. I will not put my party ahead of what the people want.

  

  Matt Bevin
  • People
  • Party

• When Saddam Hussein was eliminated, the Iraqi statehood and thousands of people from the former Baath party were also eliminated. Thousands of Iraqi servicemen, who were part of the state's Sunni elite, found themselves thrown out into the street. No one gave a thought about them, and today they end up in the ISIS army.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • Today
  • Army

• My party would not have allowed the Taleban to become such a huge force that they would need to sign a peace treaty.

  

  Benazir Bhutto
  • Peace
  • Party

• While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.

  

  Bill Owens
  • Good
  • May
  • Power

• The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now strongly swayed by the Tea Party movement, whose clarion call is a refusal to compromise regardless of the practical consequences.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • Political
  • Party
  • Tea

• We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

  

  Peter MacKay
  • People
  • Growing
  • Option

• The trouble with the world today is philosophical: only the right philosophy can save us. But this party plagiarizes some of my ideas, mixes them with the exact opposite-with religionists, anarchists and every intellectual misfit and scum they can find-and call themselves libertarians and run for office.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • World
  • Today
  • Philosophical

• I went to the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, which was great but very different from a typical university. They sat us down in the first week and said: if you want to party, you've come to the wrong place. There was no lie-ins or skipping lectures.

  

  Kimberley Nixon
  • Great
  • Music
  • Different

• I don't view Twitter as a promotional tool but as a really, really, really cool cocktail party.

  

  Kurt Busiek
  • Party
  • Cool

• I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class.

  

  Angie Harmon
  • Party
  • Understanding

• It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Party

• I’m very attracted to it. I may be diverting from Tory party policy here, but I don’t care.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • May
  • Party

• Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the outside.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Kind
  • Sometimes
  • Hurts

• 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.

  

  Lord Acton
  • Party
  • Evil
  • Democracy

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