Party Quotes - Page 27

• I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party.

  Frederick Douglass

  Elements, Causes, Republican

  Frederick Douglass (2012). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.407, Courier Corporation

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• The Republican Party would be well-advised to get the heck out of people's bedrooms.

  Rudy Giuliani

  People, Would Be, Lgbt

  "Geithner, Feinstein, Price and Pawlenty on "State of the Union". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 24, 2011.

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• In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.

  Walter Lippmann

  Power, Should Have, People

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• Of course, the latter made no secret of his attitude toward the Jewish people, and when necessary he even took the whip to drive from the temple of the Lord this adversary of all humanity, who then as always saw in religion nothing but an instrument for his business existence. In return, Christ was nailed to the cross, while our present-day party Christians debase themselves to begging for Jewish votes at elections and later try to arrange political swindles with atheistic Jewish parties- and this against their own nation.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Attitude, Catholic Religion

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.

  Jenna Fischer

  Anniversary, Struggle, Thoughtful

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• My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

  Blair Underwood

  Birthday, Son, Daddy

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• I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

  Brit Marling

  Birthday, Ideas, People

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• I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

  Brittany Snow

  Birthday, Parent, Twists

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• I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

  Jill Clayburgh

  Birthday, Inspiring, Children

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• Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.

  Keith Thibodeaux

  Birthday, Care, Made

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• I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

  Marian McPartland

  Birthday, Years, Trying

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• I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Birthday, Children, Would Be

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• I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

  Rod Taylor

  Birthday, Night, August

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• Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

  Susanna Moodie

  Children, Character, Passion

  Susanna Moodie (2010). “Life in the Clearings versus the Bush”, p.356, New Canadian Library

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• I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.

  Cindy Margolis

  Pregnancy, Being A Mom, Pounds

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• In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one's party three times a day.

  Jean Rostand

  Order, Three, Politics

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - "He is a very common-looking man". The President replied: - "The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them".

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dream, Night, Men

  Attributed in "Letters of John Hay and Extracts from Diary, vol. 1" by John Hay, (pp. 142-143), 1908.

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• The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting - the war and the revolution - and the character of the accused - revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power - you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.

  Leon Trotsky

  War, Character, July

  Leon Trotsky (2017). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.596, Penguin UK

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• In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a dictator substitutes himself for the central committee.

  Leon Trotsky

  Organization, Politics, Dictator

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• I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Political, Politics

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.290, Wordsworth Editions

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• I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties. Girls didn't like me that much -- I didn't even go to my prom.

  Paul Wesley

  Girl, School, Loner

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• The Green Party is no longer the alternative, the Green Party is the imperative

  Rosa Clemente

  Alternatives, Green, Imperatives

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• Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can’t stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be tough on immigration, it fails to deliver and loses trust.

  Margaret Hodge

  Political, Immigration, Tough

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• Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.

  E.W. Jackson

  Rights, Kkk, Black

  "Virginia Republicans nominate Tea Party favorite for lieutenant governor" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Partying means drinking. It also means playing records by Lou Reed and Chicago, which I thought was a city but is also a band it turns out.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Drinking, Mean, Cities

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