Party Quotes - Page 29

• Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  True Friend, Struggle, Love Is

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• Loads of my friends are gay, I don't see myself in any sense as being opposed to gay rights, but I did express a view before the election - which by the way was also expressed by the party but then they changed their mind - that we didn't support gay marriage which is, I suppose for some, the ultimate destination, but not for everybody.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Gay, Rights, Views

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• I am not a Tory moderniser for I believe marriage can only be between a man and a woman. I shall not surrender my principles. I believe this bill is wrong. The consultation process was a complete sham. It is opposed by the established church. It has caused deep and needless divisions within the Conservative Party. There is no mandate for it. There are huge potential consequences... and the nation faces much more serious challenges which the government needs to address

  Gerald Howarth

  Believe, Gay, Men

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• Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Money, Calling

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• I think we should do better next week, better the week after, and better right throughout the course of our government. Sometimes in parties these things happen, but it is not acceptable and I do believe that what people now want to do is to debate the future - about policy - and I think the issues about what Tony Blair will or will not do are going to be left to Tony Blair

  Gordon Brown

  Believe, Thinking, Government

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• If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Political, Politics, Decline

  Harper's Weekly Interview, June 24, 1871.

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• Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

  Jonathan Swift

  Political, Politics, Gains

  Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott (1814). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose miscellanies by Swift and Sheridan”, p.255

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• It would be as unthinkable to try to construct the Labour Party without Marx as it would to be to establish university faculties of astronomy,anthropology or psychology without permitting the study of Copernicus, Darwin or Freud, and still expect such faculties to be taken seriously

  Tony Benn

  Taken, Psychology, Trying

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• The party that called itself liberal aimed at respecting the liberty to dispose of one's own goods

  Vilfredo Pareto

  Philosophy, Political, Liberty

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• Society is purely and solely a continual series of exchanges... And the greatest eulogy we can give it, for exchange is an admirable transaction, in which two contracting parties always both gain; consequently, society is an uninterrupted succession of advantages, unceasingly renewed for all its members.

  Antoine Destutt de Tracy

  Philosophy, Two, Giving

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• Our task is tough, and our time is limited. Party organizations and governments at all levels must give priority to emission reduction and bring the idea deep into people's hearts.

  Hu Jintao

  Heart, Government, Organization

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• Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.

  James Madison

  Insecure, Opportunity, Rights

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• I did not enter the Labour Party 47 years ago to have our manifesto written by Dr Mori, Dr Gallup and Mr Harris

  Tony Benn

  Years, Drs, Politics

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• Never take any notice of Anonymous letters, unless you get a few thousand on the same subject.

  Robert Menzies

  Anonymous Letters, Thousand, Subjects

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• The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

  Paul Wellstone

  Years, Two, People

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• The Democratic Party has lost much of it credibility with working class and low-income people. It retards progress toward presenting a genuine alternative.

  Paul Wellstone

  Class, People, Progress

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• We will stand by our friends and administer a stinging rebuke to men or parties who are either indifferent, negligent, or hostile, and, wherever opportunity affords, to secure the election of intelligent, honest, earnest trade unionists, with clear, unblemished, paid-up union cards in their possession.

  Samuel Gompers

  Intelligent, Opportunity, Men

  Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1906). “The American Federationist”

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• You have got to unite in the same labor union and in the same political party and strike and vote together, and the hour you do that, the world is yours.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Political, Together, World

  "Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches". Book edited by Stephen Marion Reynolds and Bruce Rogers, 1908.

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• We meet a lot of people, we drink lots of stuff and have lots of fun

  Bon Scott

  Fun, People, Stuff

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• I love to have a beer with Duncan "Cause Duncan"s me mate

  Slim Dusty

  Beer, Causes, Duncan

  Song: Duncan

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• The most important things is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.

  C. Z. Guest

  Important, Good Times, Enjoy

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• Our only political party has two right wings, one called Republican, the other Democratic. But Henry Adams figured all that out back in the 1890s. "We have a single system," he wrote, and "in that system the only question is the price at which the proletariat is to be bought and sold, the bread and circuses."

  Gore Vidal

  Wings, Two, America

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.50, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• There is a very long list of parties in this year's election, some of the parties I have never heard of.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Years, Long, Voting

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• The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Mean, Race, Years

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• I am sorry to upset my colleagues by saying we wasted four years in opposition, but if you do get so badly defeated as a party you do have to face up to some painful facts and you do have to change.

  Kenneth Clarke

  Sorry, Years, Upset

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