Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.
~By Michael Steele ~
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
~By Guillermo Cabrera Infante ~
In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.
~By Robert M. La Follette ~
The Department of Justice transcends party because we're building on the Weed and Seed program.
~By Janet Reno ~
Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.
~By William L. Jenkins ~
The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
~By Johnny Depp ~
The party now is having my kids laugh and my wife laugh and my teammates. I want them to see me have fun and put it in a different way.
~By Brett Favre ~
I come to urge my party to be open to debate and discussion; to move away from a lock-step litmus test which advocates abortion on demand in an effort to reach a broader national consensus.
~By Robert Casey ~
The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
~By Davy Crockett ~
The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.
~By Denis Thatcher ~
I was the candidate first time a Green or any progressive third party has ever been in a national televised debate. I was in five of them. And the response from the public was overwhelming.
~By Peter Camejo ~
Thus in such a Labour Party there can be no question of independent policy.
~By Karl Radek ~
This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.
~By Stephen Harper ~
In these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.
~By Janos Kadar ~
Singling out political opponents for working against the ruling party is precisely the tactic of every tyrannical government from Red China to Venezuela. The first step in the process is creating unfounded public suspicion of political opponents, followed by arresting and jailing any who continue speaking against the regime.
~By John Carter ~
In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis.
~By Robert Casey ~
While one party may possess the levers of power, one party does not possess a monopoly on good ideas. Good lawmaking, after all, is about the ability to craft effective solutions.
~By Bill Owens ~
Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.
~By David E. Price ~
One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent.
~By Alan Keyes ~
This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
~By Dennis Kucinich ~
Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
~By Eddie Bracken ~
And we had a DJ - my childhood friend from Chicago came to be the DJ at our party out in LA. It was a party, rockin' and rolling, and it was dancing and fun. For me it was different; just to have family with us.
~By Jami Gertz ~
My explanation remains the same: It was an attempt to make the point that anyone who opposed the war can achieve their objective by working within their sphere of influence, whether their political party or community of faith.
~By James P. Moran ~
Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.
~By Pete du Pont ~
My purpose was to get leave to bring my party into the settlements in order to outfit and to obtain the supplies that had now become necessary.
~By John Charles Fremont ~
Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.
~By Richard J. Daley ~
Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.
~By Camille Paglia ~
Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.
~By Janos Kadar ~
There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They're too concerned with blasting each other.
~By Steve Chabot ~
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
~By Ron White ~
The trouble with the Labour Party leadership and the trade union leadership, they're quite willing to applaud millions on the streets of the Philippines or in Eastern Europe, without understanding the need to also produce millions of people on the streets of Britain.
~By Arthur Scargill ~
I've had very good meetings with Unionist leaders, Democratic Unionist Party, Ian Paisley and his team.
~By Peter Hain ~
I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
~By Carl Paladino ~
My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.
~By Peter MacKay ~
As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.
~By Michael Beschloss ~
The political health of Britain has deteriorated very sharply. The Conservative Party must do something about it. I am the man to do it.
~By Kenneth Clarke ~
They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In regards to your question about whether I myself am a communist, as I said I do not belong to any other organization.
~By Lee Harvey Oswald ~
If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.
~By Shirley Williams ~
I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film.
~By John Schlesinger ~
So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in.
~By Howard Dean ~
I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
~By Will Smith ~
Revolution is an instrument, like a party is an instrument.
~By Ernest Mandel ~
Existence is a party. You join after its started and you leave before its finished.
~By Elsa Maxwell ~
I'm not a crazy, party-going sort of person.
~By Tracey Ullman ~
The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.
~By Tony Campolo ~
I had years of partying, and I was kind of surprised and happy I survived it all. Now, being a parent, I look back on it thinking, Oh God, the things you did!
~By Jeff Bridges ~
Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
~By Patrick MacGill ~
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.
~By Evan Thomas ~
The standing orders of the Parliamentary Party, however, apply to me, apply to every other Member of the Parliamentary Labour Party and they put into a context the way in which those rights to freedom of speech should be exercised.
~By Ron Davies ~
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
~By Lord Acton ~
I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy.
~By Alan Jackson ~
My party is committed to a federation.
~By Mangosuthu Buthelezi ~
Our party believes in diversity, not uniformity.
~By Francis Maude ~
I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.
~By Kenneth Clarke ~
But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.
~By John Cornyn ~
Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time.
~By Mike Myers ~
Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.
~By Nafisa Joseph ~
A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
~By Karl Radek ~
I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.
~By Tony Campolo ~
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.
~By Dylan Thomas ~
The Evangelical party in the Church of Scotland will lay all flat if they be not prevented.
~By Edward Irving ~
No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
~By Aneurin Bevan ~
Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of most of the communist party governments of Eastern Europe.
~By Joe Slovo ~
The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.
~By Frank Luntz ~
Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.
~By Natalie Portman ~
Having marshalled the men in battle order, as shown in the first diagram, you will observe that each party has two ranks of men, on the first of which stand the superior Pieces, and on the next the eight Pawns.
~By Howard Staunton ~
I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.
~By John Hurt ~
Tell us exactly - certainly our listeners - why does it appear that some folks, certainly in the Democratic Party and in the news media - seem to be afraid of you?
~By Tony Brown ~
Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
~By Dana Rohrabacher ~
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.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
~By William Shakespeare ~
If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.
~By Robert M. La Follette ~
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.
~By Evan Thomas ~
It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.
~By Nelson A. Miles ~
Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.
~By Robert Byrne ~
Our success as a party will largely be determined by how well we do here in the heartland... The time has come to be secure about our values. The time has come to lead.
~By Evan Bayh ~
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
~By Robert Reich ~
The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
~By Lalu Prasad Yadav ~
The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.
~By John Conyers ~
The Communist Party said that I must finish my studies because after the revolution in Germany people would be required with technical knowledge to take part in the building of the Communist Germany.
~By Klaus Fuchs ~
I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't party.
~By Stephanie Mills ~
When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
~By Barack Obama ~
I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.
~By Stockwell Day ~
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.
~By Tim Kaine ~
I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.
~By Mike Huckabee ~
New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I think the executives have matured enough so that they recognize that we have a two-party system. In California, we have more than a two-party system.
~By Lew Wasserman ~
Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.
~By Stockwell Day ~
I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.
~By Tracy Chapman ~
Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
~By Ed Gillespie ~
The first tenet is that you should report corruption regardless of loyalty to incumbent or party.
~By Linda Tripp ~
I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.
~By Diane von Furstenberg ~
Following the rise of the Labour Party it seemed reasonable, in 1927, to expect, or at least hope, that co-operation for the common good might gradually replace the competitiveness of capitalism.
~By Dora Russell ~
We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and then come to the house. There were no cell phones or anything to get results phoned in early.
~By Daniel J. Evans ~
We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.
~By John Lynch ~
We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.
~By Al Gore ~
You don't have to go out and party every night. You can act because it's your dream.
~By Miley Cyrus ~
|