Quotes About Party

we would, as I say, be in deep kimshee."36 The limited reach of the Manhattan Declaration was an unwelcome reminder to conservatives that the Republican Party remained the only viable—and unreliable—political instrument for their ideas.

For the first time since 1856, the Republican Party did not issue a platform.

they also abjured what they saw as the manipulation and duplicity of the political newspapers, which, they claimed, sacrificed "every principle of freedom" for the short-term gain of whichever party they happened to favor.

Those who believe they speak their language would be speaking mine; those who believe they were acting in their party would be acting in mine; those who believe they were marching under their flag would be marching under mine.

I have always had an intolerance of orthodoxy, even when I agreed with it, and I was interested in producing a lively page full of unexpected insights rather than simply rote repetitions of the party line.

Is there anything sadder than the scrawniest little piece of uneaten chicken at a dinner party?" "Hmm," said Jules. "Yes. The Holocaust.

Remember who you are, May." The balm of my mother's oft-repeated words and the softness of memory banished my unease. I flew down the stairs to the party.

It would have been so much easier if he had. If he'd put his foot down and demanded we host my parents' party someplace else. If he'd taken the choice from me, I could've blamed him for making what I wanted come true.

Okay, boys, you've done worn me out, I'm gonna get going," I said. "Yeah, okay, cool," Paul said, "We're having a party here on Wednesday, why don't you come back? And give me your number, too, for sure." No one had ever asked me for my number before. I gave it to him and every guy in the room and then I left, excited and liberated

the hospital, I always felt like Alice at the Mad Hatter's tea party: I had woken up in a world that seemed utterly logical to its inhabitants but quite mad to me.

What is politics but fraud? Whatever your own, honest, candid opinion might be, you have to act according to the creed of the party, [at times] against the voice of your conscience, and thus be dependent upon others for your actions, which is quite opposed to the fundamental principles of Truth.

As part of the GOP old guard, I joined a 12 step program to wean myself from politics as usual within the Party.

party, and because I'm a sportswriter, some hostesses confuse me with the witty scribes they remember from old TV shows, Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple, maybe. Anyway, we're invited to some nice gigs. I am not a party person,

When it comes to hiring someone for a job, "discrimination on the basis of [political] party was much stronger than discrimination on the basis of race." An information economy segregates on ideas and not on genetics.

Cuddy believed if he waited until he could get everything ready at once, make all arrangements, forget no detail, then life would begin for him like a birthday party at last, and keep on noisy and warm always.

Will struggled a lot with his manic highs and deep lows. During his good times he was the life of the party. During his dark times he would withdraw from social gatherings and stay at home.

The name of the JPHS exemplified how the more politically acceptable term, "progressive," came to replace the label radical. Whereas in the 1940s and 1950s the term progressive was used to connote someone associated with the Communist Party or its support organizations, by the 1980s it came to mean anyone with views to the left of center. Within this parlance, by 1992 a centrist politician like Bill Clinton could refer to himself as a progressive.

In my opinion any activity during which you can enjoy a beverage is not a sport. It is a party.

And Murdoch, finally arriving at the party he was in more than one way sorely late to, was as subdued and thrown as everyone else, and struggling to adjust his view of a man who, for more than a generation, had been at best a clown prince among the rich and famous.

There had already been one attempt to form an Islamic party, the French Muslim Party, but it soon fell apart over the embarrassing anti-Semitism of its leader--so extreme that it drove him into an alliance with the far right. The Muslim Brotherhood learned its lesson and was careful to take a moderate line.

Life's just a cocktail party - on the street.

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.

More than anything else, let me be clear - we need to be willing to fight for freedom, and free markets, and traditional moral values. That's what the American people want to see this movement and this party return to.

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.