Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raymond Aron

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

Tom Shadyac

I wasn't big in the party scene but I did have an excessive lifestyle. I had much more than I needed. I think that was a manifestation of a certain kind of mental illness.

Tom Tancredo

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

Tom Vilsack

I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.

Tom Morello

Tonight, it's the rock and roll all night and party every day hall of fame

Toby Young

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?

Todd Akin

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

Tina Fey

The Supreme Court is expected to rule this week whether banning cross burning by groups like the Klu Klux Klan violates the first amendment. The outcome could affect the entertainment at Trent Lott's Christmas party.

Tim Kaine

But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done.

S. I. Hayakawa

You just don't know anything unless you can write it. Sure you can argue things out in your own head and bring them out at parties, but in order to argue anything thoroughly, you must be able to put it down on paper.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

Stephenie Meyer

Yes, because a vampire slumber party is the pinnacle of safety conscious behavior.

Stephenie Meyer

Jasper? What do vampires do for bachelor parties? You're not taking him to a strip club, are you?

Stephen Chbosky

I am writing to you because she said you listen and understand and didn't try to sleep with that person at that party even though you could have.

Stephen Colbert

Republicans: the party that brought us 'Just Say No.' First as a drug policy, then as their entire platform.

Stefan Zweig

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

Sonia Sotomayor

All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

Sonia Sotomayor

Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.

Sophie Kinsella

A party like this isn't about the surprise factor. It's about someone going to so much trouble that it just... overwhelms you.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Men naturally sympathize with the calamities of individuals; but they are inclined to look on a fallen party with contempt rather than with pity.

Thomas Hobbes

And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.

Tim Scott

There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.

Tim Scott

Conservative principles place growth and opportunity at the forefront, and I look forward to the RNC continuing to promote those values in communities across the nation as we grow the party.

Tim Scott

I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.

Tim Scott

I was warmly embraced by the Tea Party. They openly seek more minorities.

Tim Scott

The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.

Tim Vine

My friend told me he was going to a fancy dress party as an Italian island. I said to him, ‘Don’t be Sicily’.

Thomas Jefferson

If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

Thomas Jefferson

But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs. And it has been the peculiar wisdom and felicity of our Constitution, to have provided this peaceable appeal, where that of other nations is at once to force.

Thomas Jefferson

But, you may ask, if the two departments [i.e., federal and state] should claim each the same subject of power, where is the common umpire to decide ultimately between them? In cases of little importance or urgency, the prudence of both parties will keep them aloof from the questionable ground; but if it can neither be avoided nor compromised, a convention of the States must be called to ascribe the doubtful power to that department which they may think best.

Thomas Jefferson

The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.

Thomas Gold Appleton

Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.

Thomas Frank

There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.