Party Quotes - Page 21

• People from both political parties have long recognized that welfare without work creates negative incentives that lead to permanent poverty. It robs people of self-esteem.

  Mitt Romney

  Self Esteem, Long, People

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• But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.

  Kate Morton

  Humble, House, Needs

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.454, Simon and Schuster

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• I love what I'm doing most of the time, but it's hard work. People only see your albums in the charts. They see us at award shows and after-show parties. They don't know about your doubts, the hard work that goes in.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Hard Work, Awards, People

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• Ronald Reagan wasn't in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.

  Karl Rove

  Republican, Establishment, Republican Party

  Spiegel Interview, www.spiegel.de. October 19, 2010.

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• At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

  Karl Rove

  Two, Views, Different

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• If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.

  Karl Rove

  Hands, August, People

  "'Obama Has Turned Out to Be an Utter Disaster'". Interview with Hans Hoyng, Marc Hujer, www.spiegel.de. October 19, 2010.

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• The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn't make it up. It's in the Constitution. I think it's just as important as any of the other rights in our constitution.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Rights, Important

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• I'm proud of the fact that the Republican Party is the pro-life party on the issue of life.

  Marco Rubio

  Issues, Pro Life, Proud

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 06, 2012.

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• From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

  Marco Rubio

  Political, Tea, Massachusetts

  Marco Rubio's Conservative Political Action Conference speech, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2010.

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• I think there are many in the Democratic Party that want immigration to be unsolved issue at least for the time being, because it's more useful as a campaign issue than it is as a solved issue.

  Marco Rubio

  Thinking, Issues, Immigration

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• They’d played “Sweet Home, Alabama” so many times I wanted to crash the party, kill the radio, and knife whoever was selecting the music.

  Jennifer Estep

  Sweet, Home, Knives

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• This is the greatest society in all of human history, the greatest country ever. Many of the decisions being made in Washington today by both parties are threatening that greatness. And if we stay on this road we're on right now, our children are going to be the first Americans ever to inherit a diminished country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Children, Greatness

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• I challenge the Republican nominees and all Republicans to not just be the anti-illegal immigration party. That's not who we are and that's not who we should be we should be the pro-legal immigration party.

  Marco Rubio

  Challenges, Immigration, Who We Are

  "Marco Rubio Calls For GOP to Chill on Immigration Rhetoric" by Bryan Llenas, www.foxnews.com. January 27, 2012.

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• If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.

  Marco Rubio

  Running, Home, Romance

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• Presidents in both parties - from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan - have known that our free-enterprise economy is the source of our middle-class prosperity.

  Marco Rubio

  Class, President, Prosperity

  Marco Rubio's response speech to Barack Obama's state of the union 2013 address, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.

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• We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America.

  Marco Rubio

  Positive, America, Migrants

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• As you know, the Australian Labour Party is committed to turning the country into a republic. We've not stipulated a timeline for doing that. We are sensitive to the other priorities we've got as a nation and in the world, but in time the country will head in that direction.

  Kevin Rudd

  Country, Priorities, World

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• I conclude where I began, I was elected by the people of Australia to do a job. I was not elected by the factional leaders of Australia, of the Australian Labor Party to do a job - though they may be seeking to do a job on me, that's a separate matter. The challenge therefore is to honour the mandate given to me by the Australian people.

  Kevin Rudd

  Jobs, Australia, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.

  Kevin Rudd

  Believe, Men, Years

  FaceBook post by Kevin Rudd from Feb 22, 2012

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• 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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• Well, Luce, my dear, you may have gone to boarding school parties, but you've never seen a throw-down like reform school kids do it.

  Lauren Kate

  School, Kids, Reform

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.38, Delacorte Press

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• They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?

  Libba Bray

  Evil, Genius, Evil Genius

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.339, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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