Party Quotes - Page 5

• Actually, I don't even like parties. I would much prefer a room with four friends who sit around and have dinner. I detest nightclubs. And I don't like places where the noise is so loud you can't talk to people.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Four, Noise

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• Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

  Paul Ryan

  People, Political, Reform

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• Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on.

  Paul Ryan

  Two, Issues, Israel

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• There is a consensus of willing leaders from both parties coalescing around the right way forward in health care. Reform should address government-imposed inequities and barriers to true choice and competition.

  Paul Ryan

  Health, Government, Way Forward

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• I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Running, Mistake, Thinking

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• All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Law, Congress, Precedent

  Hearings, latimesblogs.latimes.com. July 14, 2009.

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• Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Law, Judging, Decision

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• Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.

  Arlen Specter

  Tea, Important, Doe

  "Specter warns of tea party 'takeover'" by Andy Barr, www.politico.com. May 18, 2010.

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• My tenure in the Senate was really as an independent and whichever, regardless of party label.

  Arlen Specter

  Independent, Labels, Tenure

  "Specter: A Democrat, and in between, a Republican", www.foxnews.com. January 2, 2011.

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• Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.

  Arlen Specter

  President, Too Much, Sometimes

  Sen. Arlen Specter, Charles Robbins (2012). “Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It”, p.241, Macmillan

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• When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.

  Arlen Specter

  Republican, Stimulus, Packages

  "Specter's statement: "Not defined" by party". www.politico.com. April 28, 2009.

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• Technology can be our best friend, and technology can also be the biggest party pooper of our lives. It interrupts our own story, interrupts our ability to have a thought or a daydream, to imagine something wonderful, because we're too busy bridging the walk from the cafeteria back to the office on the cell phone.

  Steven Spielberg

  Technology, Phones, Cells

  2002 In Wired, Jun.

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• While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Views, Voice, Lasts

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• Mitt Romney's primary season embrace of the social and economic agenda of the more rabid elements of his party doomed him, especially the shrill immigration rhetoric and the harshly insensitive theory that no additional sacrifice or contribution should be sought from those at the top.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Sacrifice, Immigration, Agendas

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• The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Tea, Principles, Occupy Movement

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• The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Moving, Winning, Voice

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• The Christians tried to separate themselves from the Jewish crowd so they wouldn't be the recipients of the persecution of the Romans. And the way they did it was to say, the Jews killed our hero too. And so Christians began to define themselves over against the orthodox party of the Jews as a way of surviving against the Roman onslaught.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Hero, Crowds

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• All legitimate government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily agreed upon by the parties to it, for the protection of their rights against wrong-doers. In its voluntary character it is precisely similar to an association for mutual protection against fire or shipwreck.

  Lysander Spooner

  Character, Fire, Rights

  Lysander Spooner (2004). “An Essay on the Trial by Jury”, p.242, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• If it be said that the consent of the strongest party in a nation, is all that is necessary to justify the establishment of a government that shall have authority over the weaker party, it may be answered that the most despotic governments in the world rest upon that very principle, viz.: the consent of the strongest party.

  Lysander Spooner

  Government, Principles, World

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• Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Men, People, Evil

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• When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?

  Ben Stein

  Israel, Realizing, Republican

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• I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Funny, Friends, Truth

  Campaign remark, Fresno, Cal., 10 Sept. 1952. John F. Parker, in "If Elected, I Promise ...": Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians (1969), attributes the reverse statement to Chauncey Depew (1834 - 1928): "If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats."

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• 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.

  Ben Stiller

  New Year, Years, People

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• All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.

  Elaine Stritch

  Girl, Home, Going Home

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• The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Florida, Nails

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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