Famous Quotes & Sayings

Malcolm X

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. We won't follow any leader today who comes on the basis of political party. Both parties (Democrat and Republican) are controlled by the same people who have abused our rights, and who have deceived us with false promises every time an election rolls around.

Malcolm X

We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

Mahatma Gandhi

I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses.

Mahatma Gandhi

It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

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.

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.

John Boozman

Well you know I'm very supportive of what the Tea Party is trying to do. They're very concerned with spending, the deficit, the bailouts, you know all of those kinds of things. But I really think that the strength of the Tea Party is being a grassroots movement.

John Bolton

I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.

John Bolton

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

All of a sudden, she's become the immigration governor. That's because they have the same polling as the Republican Party does.

Elle Macpherson

If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.

Eric Hoffer

Faith in humanity, in posterity, in the destiny of one's religion, nation, race, party or family-what is it but the visualization of that eternal something to which we attach the self that is about to be annihilated?

Eric Bolling

I also point out that the Democrat senator from Maryland, called the Tea Party, teabaggers.

Eric Bolling

In honor of Al Gore, green tea, not Tea Party, but Al Gore green tea. And by the way, it's tree hugger-approved.

Enoch Powell

I am the last person whom it would be reasonable to expect to leave the Conservative Party.

Enoch Powell

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

Emo Philips

When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

James F. Cooper

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

James Chanos

In China, remember, the the banks are arms of state policy. They loan because the local party official or regional party official tells them we need a new stadium. They are instruments of state policy.

James Connolly

Whoop it up for liberty! After Ireland is free, says the patriot who won't touch socialism, we will protect all classes, and if you won't pay your rent you will be evicted same as now. But the evicting party, under command of the sheriff, will wear green uniforms and the Harp without the Crown, and the warrant turning you out on the roadside will be stamped with the arms of the Irish Republic. Now, isn't that worth fighting for?

Napoleon Bonaparte

Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.

Norman Tebbit

I have no intention of slurring over the differences we have with socialism, nor concealing my belief that we are the National Party of Great Britain, representing not narrow class interest, nor the bigotry of the left wing intellectuals, but all those who support the British tradition of democracy, of personal freedom, of personal responsibility for one's own affairs and those of one's family, with the least possible interference from the State.

Norman Lear

The complete control of one party over everything - I would, I think, feel the same way if it were [the Democrats in charge]. It's not the American way.

Ellen DeGeneres

I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy.

Rachel Maddow

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.

Ewan McGregor

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?

Evan Thomas

Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.

Evan Thomas

I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.

Evan Goldberg

Everyone from Canada and from here contributed [to the Sausage Party] - it truly is, like, every market.

Evan Sayet

Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.