Quotes About Community

My mom was always trying to figure out ways to make Hanukkah exciting and compete with our neighbors the Kremps, who always had these amazing blow-out Christmas parties.

I like to go to parties where I know everyone. How are you going to have fun with people you don't know?

There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.

Dinner parties are still highly popular, and I believe they always will be.

We go to several farms and look at foraging, and throw backyard parties with friends. We want to let people know they can enjoy a sense of Tuscany anywhere.

I'm a huge holiday person. I love having parties and giving gifts.

Growing up in New Jersey, bat mitzvas were all about the elegant parties.

We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

I used to throw cooking parties in university. Everyone would come over - sometimes you'd just do a mac and cheese, but if you do that better than everyone else, you can get people to come to you.

Everyone from Pullman porters to hostesses at swank New York parties will tell me they always watch 'Miss Brooks' on Friday night.

The job of a leader, the job of a governor, the job of a president, is to get the people in the room and bang enough heads together and rub enough arms and cajole enough to have them put the country and the state's greater interest ahead of their own personal partisan interest. That's what we did in New Jersey and that's the model for America.

We need elected officials who overcome partisan politics to really help people.

When it's for the good of your state, you put partisan differences aside.

Making people's lives better is not a partisan issue.

Health care should not be a partisan issue. Because health care is a Kentucky issue.

Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and partisanship before progress and results.

We can bring people together in an era rife with partisanship and divide.

I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.

I moved to Kentish Town from Chelsea in 1983, partly because I had a lot of friends already living in the area and because it took an hour off the journey to my house in Suffolk. It has a villagey feel, and it's still a very mixed community, which I like.

Partly because I get such astonishingly nice fans.

Part of what our problem as blacks in America is that we don't claim that. Partly, you see, because of the linguistic environment in which we live.

I remember going to Birmingham City matches as a kid and there were these other kids in Small Heath who had their own odd, partly Scouse accent.

We come from Second City where you're taught if you make your fellow stage partner look good, that makes you look good.

I'm proud to stand beside you as a partner and support Special Olympics - an important program that promotes leadership and empowers students to be agents of change.