Party Quotes

Labor is at its best when we are the party of ideas and action - ideas that empower the powerless and actions that build a better Australia for the long term.

The dinner party is a suburban form of entertainment. Its spread in our big cities represents an insidious Fifth Column suburbanization of the metropolis.

Think of a dinner party as a club of revolutionaries, a technocratic elite whose social interactions that night are a dry run for some future takeover of the state.

You have to be rather straightforward with your clients. You can't tell the parties only nice things. This is not an entertainment show; it's not reality television either.

Brian Burke as we now know was the most influential person in the West Australian Labor Party, if you could attract him, you're in business.

I can't do movies where you start thinking "Where's the commercial appeal? How are we going to market this?" It's not that kind of party.

When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.

In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.

When I turn up at a trendy party, all the youngsters look like they could be my illegitimate love children.

How long can we go without real leadership? It's like an experiment. It's [a problem with] both parties, it's beyond belief.

The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive.

What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.

I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em.

Work-do plays, learn your craft, and go to school. Keep working. Nobody is going to give you jobs for going to parties or any of that nonsense. Go out, look around, do things.

Angela Merkel and the CDU are not our political adversaries. The CDU and the CSU are sister parties.

I’ve never really socialized, I’ve always been anti-social and preferred to be at home. I was never, even my late teens and early twenties, into clubs and parties and stuff like that.

Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or chick flick ever.

I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.

I don't want people to think he [Eldridge Cleaver] is so important - our party is important because our party works for the people and no individual is important in our party, including myself.

Peter would probably throw a party if I stopped breathing.' 'Well,' he says, 'I would only go if there was cake.

I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.

The mark of a good party is that you wake up the next morning wanting to change your name and start a new life in a different city.

If you create a new party... to try to deny the communist party leadership, then not be allowed to exist.

Anyone who sees only the bright side but not the difficulties cannot fight effectively for the accomplishment of the Party's tasks.

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

All secret oath-bound political parties are dangerous to any nation, no matter how pure or how patriotic the motives and principles which first bring them together.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.

Principles are like prayers; noble, of course, but awkward at a party.

To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as there are of Protestants.

Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.

I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.

I could never toe the party line. I'd wear out the carpet crossing the floor.

My job isn't to represent the Democrat Party or the Republican Party. It's to represent Hoosier families.

I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

In my day, in my era, Ralph McDaniels, just being five and being at his block party, you could just got onstage.

The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.

At parties, I'll start talking and notice everyone is looking at me and feel dumb and say, 'Forget it,' and then start eating things.

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.

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

I would rather be seated between any two women than any two men at a dinner party.

That's stupid. You couldn't pay me to go. I'm not oversimplifying it. That's what's going on. I don't think it would be any fun without the drugs. It's a drug party.

I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

The Liberal Party of Canada has no monopoly on public service, we have no monopoly on virtue, and we have no monopoly on wisdom.

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into peoples minds better than we Liberals.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.