Party Quotes
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The man who doesn''t relax and hoot a few hoots voluntarily, now and then, is in great danger of hooting hoots and standing on his head for the edification of the pathologist and trained nurse, a little later on. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; no sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet to chase the glowing hours with flying feet. (Quote by - Gordon)
He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
What I don''t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day (Quote by - Phyllis Diller)
I have stood down as home affairs spokesman for the party (Quote by - Mark Oaten)
I share the view of the overwhelming majority of the party and the country that the only way the party and the government can renew itself in office is urgently to renew its leadership. (Quote by - Tom Watson)
The more you read about politics, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other (Quote by - Will Rogers)
I don''t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. (Quote by - Diane Ackerman)
We''re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
Within the party there are certain concerns about whether we are going against our commitment to a fair society. (Quote by - Baroness Williams)
It is now in Gordon Brown's - and the Labour party's - best interests for those seeking the prime minister's immediate departure to back off (Quote by - David Blunkett)
He is destroying our party if we are not careful. (Quote by - Lady Tonge)
I make no apology for saying that in the East End of London a new party of labour, with a small L, is being born (Quote by - George Galloway)
All of us rightly regard ourselves as loyal to the Labour Party and yourself over many years. We believe however that you have not ended the uncertainty over when you intend to leave office, which is damaging the government and the party. (Quote by - Wayne Davis)
Charles Kennedy must think hard about whether he has the personal strength to fight the triple demons of the Labour Party, the Conservative Party and the drink problem. (Quote by - Sandra Gidley)
All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning. (Quote by - George Galloway)
When I turn up at a trendy party, all the youngsters look like they could be my illegitimate love children. (Quote by - Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen)
I wish I was Sienna Miller. When I talk to her, I hope a bit of her party personality will rub off on me, but it never does. (Quote by - Keira Knightley)
The sun with light umber touches vined cucumber The more he tickles the more there are pickles. (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)
I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Searching is half the fun life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. (Quote by - Jimmy Buffett)
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. (Quote by - Allen Ginsberg)
I don't think one should be angry about these things. The task is to draw the party together and move forward. (Quote by - Sir Menzies Campbell)
Spring is nature''s way of saying, Let''s party! (Quote by - Robin Williams)
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends.... That if they will top telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. (Quote by - Adlai E. Stevenson)
We love getting dressed up - and this is a great excuse for a party. (Quote by - Nicola Roberts)
No man does right by a woman at a party. (Quote by - Harry Golden)
We must become the party not of excellence for the few, but a first class local school for everyone (Quote by - David Cameron)
He does, but that did not come across. (Quote by - Vince Cable)
I deeply regret the damage which recent publicity has brought to the Labour Party. However, I reject any suggestion of intentional wrongdoing on my part. (Quote by - Wendy Alexander)
That sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important. (Quote by - Hazel Blears)
We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds. (Quote by - Barbara Jordan)
When I lived at home, I used to go out and not come back 'til three o'clock the next afternoon. I'm not so bad now, but I still like a party. I blame Bryan - he's a bad influence! (Quote by - Kian Egan)
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. (Quote by - Jean Paul Richter)
He serves his party best who serves the country best. (Quote by - Rutherford B. Hayes)
Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's finished. (Quote by - Elsa Maxwell)
If the party has taken a very firm decision to cut away to a new generation, David Cameron is the man who will do best for the party. (Quote by - Michael Mates)
Drink, and dance and laugh and lie, Love the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred of the Tory party. So far as I am concerned, they are lower than vermin. (Quote by - Aneurin Bevan)
Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other. (Quote by - Henry Clay)
In my view it is better for the Labour Party, the leadership and the new prime minister that he be given the maximum flexibility. (Quote by - John Reid)
We have arrived at the point where the public are right in thinking that John Prescott no longer serves a purpose in governing the country, only a purpose in trying to hold together the fragile peace in the Labour Party (Quote by - Andrew Lansley)
It is very important that we have a debate about the direction of the party (Quote by - Steve Webb)
I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament (Quote by - Roy Hattersley)
The reason the prime minister has cancelled this election is because the Conservative Party is making the arguments about the changes this country needs. (Quote by - David Cameron)
I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
Balance is the key to my life, the ability to have new experiences and enjoying life to its fullest. On my free times I enjoy fireing it up being the ultimate party animal and at the same time I enjoy being a suzy homemaker. (Quote by - Felicia Tang)
I would like to apologise for errors of judgement in personal behaviour and for the embarrassment caused, firstly to my family but also to my friends, my constituents and my party. (Quote by - Mark Oaten)
The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative' (Quote by - Kenneth Clarke)
This is really going to be the first modern three party UK election that we have all experienced. (Quote by - Charles Kennedy)
This ain't no garden party, brother, this is wrestling, where only the strongest survive. (Quote by - Ric Flair)
Sadly, I feel that your remaining in office no longer serves the best interests of the party or the country. (Quote by - Khalid Mahmood)
Einstein because he was so intelligent so he'd be fascinating, and Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison because they're music legends. (Quote by - Sandi Thom)
The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party. (Quote by - Gordon Strachan)
Sometimes party loyalty asks too much. (Quote by - John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club. (Quote by - Howard Dean)
It would be nice to see Gordon Brown crowned as early as the next party conference. (Quote by - Desmond Turner)
A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops. (Quote by - Maurice Johnstone)
The political lesson of Watergate is this Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. (Quote by - Gerald Ford)
To be honest, it's a bit of a relief not having to be the party animal for a change. (Quote by - Sara Cox)
The policy supported by Mr Howard is one that we would also commend, on the way to a full abandonment of abortion... We are not going to suggest people support one particular party. (Quote by - Cormac Murphy O'Connor)
Spend the afternoon. You can''t take it with you. (Quote by - Annie Dillard)
Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don''t drink too much. Then again, don''t drink too little. (Quote by - Herman Jackrabbit Smith-Johannsen)
I've never known a time when the in-fighting in the Labour Party was so bitter. (Quote by - Roy Hattersley)
I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all of us. I've always liked Ralph Nader and would like to see a real third party, but the thought of George Bush as president is unthinkable. (Quote by - Richard Gere)
I have said I will not work with the parliamentary party in Strasbourg again but of course I will continue to be a member of UKIP. (Quote by - Robert Kilroy-Silk)
I trust that whoever leads the Conservative Party actually pays regard to my advice on how we should conduct ourselves and I personally will obviously support whoever eventually wins. (Quote by - Kenneth Clarke)
Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices. (Quote by - Archbishop Richard Whately)
Party standards are shadows in which patriotism is buried. (Quote by - Bernadin de St. Pierre)
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant - does it get any better than this (Quote by - Ewan McGregor)
A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. (Quote by - Harry S Truman)
I don't party for the sake of it. I do have to have somewhere to go. (Quote by - Tahita Bulmer)
Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly. (Quote by - Conan O'Brien)
A blend of continuity and change which is a difficult balancing act to strike in politics. (Quote by - Liam Byrne)
This was a landmark year for me because I turned 21 in April. Everything at my party was silver, lilac and white and it looked so pretty, my party was one of the happiest days of my life. (Quote by - Coleen Mcloughlin)
He did have talents, particularly in the promotion of the party and of himself. But he has caused us a lot of negative coverage. (Quote by - Roger Knapman)
Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked. (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)
Hear no evil, speak no evil - and you'll never be invited to a party (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
How is it possible for those who are men of honor in their persons, thus to become notorious liars in their party (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Cocktail party A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. (Quote by - Fred A. Allen)
I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends. (Quote by - Nancie J. Carmody)
Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. (Quote by - Kingsley Amis)
Obviously there are those who wish to remain confidential in a public sense. But the electoral commission will be able to come in and look at the terms of those loans and the names. (Quote by - Theresa May)
He should be judged by his contribution. (Quote by - Des Browne)
Whatever the commission wants to do to satisfy itself that everything is in conformity with the law, the Conservative party will assist it to do. (Quote by - Oliver Letwin)
I am confident that the Republican Party will pick a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton. (Quote by - Dan Quayle)
Gosh, this really is rather jolly good, now it's time to serve up and have a wonderful dinner party with your guests! (Quote by - Nigella Lawson)
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. (Quote by - W Somerset Maugham)
It's a pity because, frankly, he's going to get humiliated. (Quote by - Stephen Pound)
One of the problems now, I have to say more on the Blair side than on the Brown side, is that many of the Blair supporters couldn't care a damn about the Labour Party. They care about their own faction, their own ideas, their own leader and that is corrosive for the Party's interests. (Quote by - Roy Hattersley)
The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer. (Quote by - Maude Royden)
He worst effect of party is its tendency to generate narrow, false, and illiberal prejudices, by teaching the adherents of one party to regard those that belong to an opposing party as unworthy of confidence. (Quote by - Dorothea Brande)
What I say is that 'just' or 'right' means nothing but what is in the interest of the stronger party. - Thrasymachus in The Republic. (Quote by - Plato)
Billions raised, billions spent. No idea where the money has gone. With a record like that the chancellor should be running for treasurer of the Labour Party. (Quote by - David Cameron)
No party is entirely subject to what happens to any one individual. The party is much bigger than that and my task as acting leader is to restore a sense of unity and purpose (Quote by - Sir Menzies Campbell)
At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other. (Quote by - Ann Landers)
I performed at Mom and Dad's party when I was four. Oh my gosh, I was singing a Madonna song and I peed myself (Quote by - Britney Spears)
This is the first time that the Scottish National Party have won a seat from Labour in a UK General Election for 31 years. (Quote by - Alex Salmond)
There are always two parties; the establishment and the movement. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Party honesty is party expediency. (Quote by - Grover Cleveland)
There are indications that domestic and foreign policies of the Party enjoy the unanimous support of all the Soviet people. (Quote by - Yuri Andropov)
Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world. (Quote by - Barry Goldwater)
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
You cannot have to both represent a party line as a frontbench spokesman and be editor of an independent-minded magazine - the two are incompatible. (Quote by - Andrew Neil)
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
I will make sure I invite you a dinner party, then! (Quote by - David Gest)
No party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. (Quote by - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus)
The question Tony Blair should be reflecting on this weekend is having achieved this, having secured his place in the history of the Labour Party and the history of Britain, whether now might be a better time to let a new leader in who could then achieve the unity we need if we are going to go forward. (Quote by - Robin Cook)
We have got to have a leadership that has the confidence of the whole party that is attractive in putting forward our policies. (Quote by - Michael Foster)
Changing our party - changing our country. The fire of hope burning bright once again (Quote by - David Cameron)
This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
The goal of all civilization, all religious thought, and all that sort of thing is simply to have a good time. But man gets so solemn over the process that he forgets the end. (Quote by - Don Marquis)
A small number of individuals are giving the idea there is a big rift in the Labour party. (Quote by - Ann Clwyd)
The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error. (Quote by - Archbishop Richard Whately)
My family is more important than my party. (Quote by - Zell Miller)
None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics (Quote by - David Blunkett)
The solution is not to reinvent ourselves, not to ape the Labour Party or the Liberal Democrats. (Quote by - Malcolm Rifkind)
Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly. (Quote by - Desiderius Gerhard Erasmus)
Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it. (Quote by - Richard Cecil)
I still feel like I've crashed the party. (Quote by - Renee Zellweger)
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
It is not often pointed out that we are a young party and most of our supporters are young people. (Quote by - Jorg Haider)
The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of human kind, the very birthright of humanity. (Quote by - Anna Julia Cooper)
To alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life''s problems. (Quote by - Homer Simpson, character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show)
Trying to shuffle a pretty battered pack of cards. (Quote by - Sir Menzies Campbell)
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. (Quote by - John Calhoun)
The cocktail party is easily the worst invention since castor oil (Quote by - Elsa Maxwell)
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end. (Quote by - Sir Edmund Burke)
You moon the wrong person at an office party and suddenly you''re not ''professional'' any more (Quote by - Jeff Foxworthy)
I suggested that we use the panther as our symbol and call our political vehicle the Black Panther Party. The panther is a fierce animal, but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner; then he will strike out. (Quote by - Huey Newton)
Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man. (Quote by - Iain Duncan Smith)
It is not credible for a party leader to have the passive support of the wider membership without first ensuring that he has the confidence of the vast majority if not the whole of his parliamentary colleagues (Quote by - Andrew George)
Party is the madness of many, for the gains of a few. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
So I can make the party more woof and less miaow. (Quote by - Alan Duncan)
Guys, you'll know you've been to a P Diddy party when you wake up with five girls in your bed. (Quote by - P Diddy)
Life moves pretty fast. If you don''t stop to look around once in a while you could miss it. (Quote by - Ferris Bueller)
There should not be a party within a party. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both. (Quote by - David Brown)
After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi. (Quote by - P. J. O'Rourke)
We, the Black masses, don't want these leaders who seek our support coming to us representing a certain political party. They must come to us today as Black Leaders representing the welfare of Black people. (Quote by - Malcolm X American Black Leader)
We can't afford to waste time going slow on changing our party so now is not the time to put our foot on the brake. Now is the time to press on the accelerator. (Quote by - David Cameron)
The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened. (Quote by - Richard J Daley)
The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable (Quote by - Michael Heseltine)
I am for 'Peace, retrenchment, and reform', the watchword of the great Liberal party 30 years ago. (Quote by - John Bright)
I believe that the Democratic party has a bright future, but that like any long lived entity it needs to address some fundamental issues. (Quote by - Martin Frost)
This party will, ultimately, be judged on its ability to deliver on its promise. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
You know, we''ve got to do it someday... throw away all the guns and invite all the jokers from the North and the South in here to a cocktail party... last man standing on his feet at the end wins the war. (Quote by - Hawkeye)
There''s never enough time to do all the nothing you want. (Quote by - Bill Watterson)
For the past couple of years I was doing the party thing - going out a lot. But now I've turned 25, I feel I'm an adult. (Quote by - Paris Hilton)
At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom (Quote by - George Carlin)
A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard. (Quote by - Peter Camejo)
John Prescott has made the government look greedy and ridiculous. Labour is seen as the corrupt party. The government has been fulfilling the old rule that oppositions do not win elections, governments lose them. (Quote by - Lord Rees-Mogg)
This is David expressing a personal view that many people will agree with but it isn't party policy. (Quote by - John Major)
The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservation and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party. (Quote by - Dylan Thomas)
There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets. (Quote by - Fiorello La Guardia)
Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. (Quote by - Dwight W. Morrow)
There has ever been, and will always be, two dominant parties in politics, and this is indirectly an advantage to the general interests of the country. (Quote by - Daniel Webster)
The Labour Party owes more to Methodism than to Marxism. (Quote by - Morgan Phillips)
I didn't know Catalunya would be my last rally but I don't have any regrets because the party on the Sunday night was beautiful. (Quote by - Carlos Sainz)
I believe whoever the Labour Party chooses to replace Tony Blair will beat David Cameron. (Quote by - David Blunkett)
Enjoyed it! One more drink and I'd have been under the host. (Quote by - Dorothy Parker)
All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. (Quote by - Pierre Joseph Proudhon)
Our party has in past times known great, great days, but we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed. (Quote by - Francis Maude)
Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party you wouldn''t be seen dead at (Quote by - Bill Vaughan)
We need people like me in the Labour party. (Quote by - Alan Johnson)
No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party. (Quote by - Richard J Daley)
You know what some people call us the nasty party. (Quote by - Theresa May)
My father arranged a surprise party for me. He took my phone book and called everyone in it. I was mortified. (Quote by - Natalie Portman)
The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities (Quote by - Vince Cable)
One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human. (Quote by - George Santayana)
If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up. (Quote by - Dr Seuss)
Tony Blair has to consider very carefully to what extent he can leave Britain, the party and the nation guessing as to when exactly he might go. (Quote by - Robin Cook)
I think in any organisation it's right to set out what you stand for, what you're fighting for and bring that together in one document so that people can see that the modern compassionate Conservative Party is in it for everybody - not just the rich (Quote by - David Cameron)
There are some of us... who will fight and fight and fight again to save the Party we love. (Quote by - Hugh Gaitskell)
The best system is to have one party govern and the other party watch. (Quote by - Thomas B. Reed)
We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich. (Quote by - Ronald Reagan)
I am absolutely delighted to give my full support to Gordon as the next leader of the Labour Party and as prime minister and to endorse him fully. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. (Quote by - John Adams)
The forces behind him [Tony Blair] on the one hand and Gordon Brown on the other are going to continue to do the Labour Party appalling damage. (Quote by - Roy Hattersley)
Taxes shouldn't be higher; they should be fairer. We must be a party that's disciplined. We must make tough choices. (Quote by - Vince Cable)
And it's absolutely hypocritical for the political party that talks about states rights, to suddenly ignore states rights, that say that the federal government or federalism has no business in this kind of business. (Quote by - Gary Ackerman)
There's nobody in the Labour Party, Gordon Brown through to the person who joined last week, who is not concerned and deeply upset and even depressed about what has happened over the last week - it's been a dreadful time (Quote by - Alan Johnson)
