Quotes About Parties

First, this great and glorious country was built up by political parties; second, parties can't hold together if their workers don't get the offices when they win; third, if the parties go to pieces, the government they built up must go to pieces, too; fourth, then there'll be h——to pay.

understood that the actual reason courtrooms often have no windows is to prevent the parties from heaving lawyers out of them.

Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.

Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both.

these same parties self-consciously rejected any remaining elements of their old working-class constituencies, and instead became, as Tom Frank has so effectively demonstrated, the parties of the professional-managerial class: that is, not just doctors and lawyers, but the administrators and managers actually responsible for the bullshitization of the caring sectors of the economy.15

When a form of government is legitimately constituted," Rosa now wrote, "even though it may initially have been defective or even questionable in various ways Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is one's duty to support it, for public order or the common good requires it. Nor is it permitted to either individuals or to parties to plot to defeat it or supplant it or change it with unjust means."22

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

In good times, people turn to Left wing parties, in bad times, they say, well, possibly Left-wing parties can't make those tough decisions... We've got to buck that trend

We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.

I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.

Bush is a nice fellow who gives very good parties. I just wish someone would find him a better job than running the country.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

Deregulation is a transfer of power from the trodden to the treading. It is unsurprising that all conservative parties claim to hate big government.

Inflation is the true opium of the people and it is administered to them by anticapitalist governments and parties.

Parties and political systems used to be about excluding renegades who would never play well with others in government. Now it's actually systematically screening them in.

The Republicans have a habit of having three bad years and one good one, and the good one always happens to be election years.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.

The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals.

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States.

I enjoy talking about politics a great deal.

The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home.