Party Quotes - page 7

We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America. (Al Gore)
I won't be a party to a conspiracy to mobilize the Arabs against the Persians. Only the forces of colonialism benefit from such a conspiracy. I won't be a party to a conspiracy that splits Islam into two - Shiite Islam and Sunni Islam – mobilizing Sunni Islam against Shiite Islam. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
Philosophy is antipoetic. Philosophize about mankind and you brush aside individual uniqueness, which a poet cannot do without self-damage. Unless, for a start, he has a strong personal rhythm to vary his metrics, he is nothing. Poets mistrust philosophy. They know that once the heads are counted, each owner of a head loses his personal identity and becomes a number in some government scheme: if not as a slave or serf, at least as a party to the device of majority voting, which smothers personal views. View quote
Robert Graves
People who don't know any better will always be in the dark because the power lies in the hands of men who take good care that ordinary folk don't understand, in the hands, that is, of the government, of the clerical party, of the capitalists. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy. View quote
Robert Fripp
A party should be founded not merely on numbers, but on moral principles, without which it can neither accomplish useful work nor inspire confidence. View quote
Eleftherios Venizelos
This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion. View quote
Stephen Harper
The very essence of a free government consists in considering offices as public trusts, bestowed for the good of the country, and not for the benefit of an individual or a party. View quote
John C. Calhoun
You're one of those guys who can make a party just by leaving it. It's a great gift. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
To those who say - My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172 years late. To those who say - To those who say that this civil-rights program is an infringement on states' rights, I say this: The time has arrived in America for the Democratic party to get out of the shadow of states' rights and to walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
Purpose of counter-intelligence action is to disrupt [Black Panther Party] and it is immaterial whether facts exist to substantiate the charge. If facts are present it aids in the success of the proposal but the Bureau feels ... that disruption can be accomplished without facts to back it up. (J. Edgar Hoover)
A party without cake is just a meeting. View quote
Julia Child
The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured. View quote
Ryszard Kapuściński
Looking at the other person's point of view and arousing in him an eager want for something is not to be construed as manipulating that person so that he will do something that is only for your benefit and his detriment. Each party should gain from the negotiation. View quote
Dale Carnegie
I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice. View quote
Saffron Burrows
I am in the Labour Party because I am a feminist. I am in the Labour Party because I believe in equality. View quote
Harriet Harman
Now, many of us in the Labour Party are conservationists - and we all love the red squirrel. But there is one ginger rodent which we never want to see again - Danny Alexander. View quote
Harriet Harman
This is a very crucial period and we have got five fantastic candidates. All of them would make excellent leaders of the Party. View quote
Harriet Harman
The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with. View quote
Harriet Harman
The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out. View quote
Paul Keating
The fact is, Burke is smarter than two thirds of the Western Australian Labor Party rolled together. (Paul Keating)
Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party ... View quote
Vivian Stanshall
Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic. View quote
Camille Paglia
My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to report him for child molesting. He had never molested me, but I wanted to have a party that weekend and needed him out of the house. View quote
Chelsea Handler
Republican Party hasn't been black friendly over the many centuries in this country. View quote
Joy Behar