Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Adams

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

John Adams

What a pity it is that our Congress had not known this discovery, and that Alexander Hamilton’s projects of raising an army of fifty thousand Men, ten thousand of them to be Cavalry and his projects of sedition Laws and Alien Laws and of new taxes to support his army, all arose from a superabundance of secretions which he could not find whores enough to draw off! and that the same vapours produced his Lyes and Slanders by which he totally destroyed his party forever and finally lost his Life in the field of Honor.

James Hunt

We thought these incidents warranted a third-party investigation. It will give us some outside expertise and a more global look at the problem.

James Fallows

The pandering and ignorance-across-party-lines represented by the John McCain-Hillary Clinton united front for a temporary reduction in the gasoline tax should make Americans hold their heads in their hands and moan [...] Please. This is embarrassing. It makes me long for the good old days of debating about flag pins on the lapel.

Laura Davies

I loved radio for the music, concerts, parties and to think you could get paid for it.

Larry Flynt

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.

Kyrsten Sinema

Hardworking families can no longer afford to wait for a Congress that gridlocks on ideology. I look forward to working with my colleagues from both parties to get things done.

Libba Bray

Helloooo." Miss Ohio rolled her eyes. "I'm from the Buckeye State. We are serious about our tailgating parties. I can turn anything into a grill.

Libba Bray

They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

Friedrich August von Hayek

In the United States, where it has become almost impossible to use "liberal" in the sense in which I have used it, the term "libertarian" has been used instead. It may be the answer; but for my part I find it singularly unattractive. For my taste it carries too much the flavor of a manufactured term and of a substitute. What I should want is a word which describes the party of life, the party that favors free growth and spontaneous evolution. But I have racked my brain unsuccessfully to find a descriptive term which commends itself.

Friedrich August von Hayek

The conservatives have already accepted a large part of the collectivist creed-a creed that has governed policy for so long that many of its institutions have come to be accepted as a matter of course and have become a source of pride to "conservative" parties who created them. Here the believer in freedom cannot but conflict with the conservative and take an essentially radical position, directed against popular prejudices, entrenched positions, and firmly established privileges. Follies and abuses are no better for having long been established principles of folly.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

My own party can succeed at the polls only so long as it continues to be the party of militant liberalism.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity.

George Galloway

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

George Foreman

When problems arise, you will usually find two types of people: whiners and winners. Whiners obstruct progress; they spend hours complaining about this point or that, without offering positive solutions. Winners acknowledge the existence of the problem, but they try to offer practical ideas that can help resolve the matter in a manner that is satisfactory to both parties.

Jon Meacham

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

Jon Hamm

Whether it's Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian or whoever, stupidity is certainly celebrated.

Jon Bon Jovi

PARTY POLITICS DIVIDES FRIENDSHIPS SOMETIMES.

Johnny Olson

They'll invite you to all the parties, but that doesn't mean you have to go all the time.

Johnny Olson

Ladies be seated, the party has only begun.

Luis Fortuno

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

Luc de Clapiers

It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed.

Louis MacNeice

Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go.

Lord Acton

A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.

John Cole

I really don't understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negotiate an agreement on dinner plans with your date, and you suggest Italian and she states her preference would be a meal of tire rims and anthrax. If you can figure out a way to split the difference there and find a meal you will both enjoy, you can probably figure out how bipartisanship is going to work the next few years.

John Bruton

David Cameron says he wants to keep Britain in the EU, but his tactics are so divisive that, if he gets what he wants it will be at the price of huge ill-will in Europe; or if he doesn't, it will be at the price of increased anti-EU sentiment in his own party and in British society.

John Bright

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

John Bright

The right honorable gentleman [Robert Lowe, Viscount Sherbrooke] is the first of the new party who has retired into his political cave of Adullam and he has called about him everyone that was in distress and everyone that was discontented.

Lupe Fiasco

I have a lot of fans in the Tea Party, and they disagree with me vehemently. But they're fans, so we meet and connect and talk, so I'm open to everything.

Lupe Fiasco

I don't really care about the GOPs or the Democratic Party. My point is the people, giving the people truth.