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

Giving parties is a trivial avocation, but it pays the dues for my union card in humanity.
Elsa Maxwell

At every party there are two kinds of people – those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
Ann Landers

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
Franklin Pierce

A lot of people say to me, ‘Why did you kill Christ?’ I dunno, it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know.
Lenny Bruce

A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser.
William Shakespeare

And I hope very much that the ALP will become increasingly engaged in the international discussions that are taking place amongst centre-left parties generally.
Patricia Hewitt

A proper family diary with everyone’s events and parties in it really helps organise the household.
Anthea Turner

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
Henry A. Wallace

A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could collaborate effectively on most of the problems besetting the cause of peace.
Fredrik Bajer

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
Ferdinand Mount

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.
Erma Bombeck

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.
Dorothy Day

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W. H. Auden

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Barbara Walters

Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host.
Fred Allen

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
John Arbuthnot

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
Wendell Willkie

As parties began to develop around the turn of the 19th century, you had party nominees for President nominated in caucuses made up of party members in Congress.
Michael Beschloss

But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the political parties and the Trade Unions, by means of the most severe struggle, also inwardly.
Herman Gorter

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.
William Henry Ashley

Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people To me it’s a form of sacrament.
Sally Quinn

Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you’re saying you have a political conscience but you don’t agree with any of the existing parties.
Jose Saramago

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Congress needs strong parties, but it also needs the capacity to deal with budget and entitlement challenges that are likely beyond the reach of pure partisan exertion.
David E. Price

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!”
Robin Williams

Despite Japan’s desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.
Hideki Tojo

Don’t believe those who claim that only left wing parties really care about employment.
Kjell Magne Bondevik

Never be the first to arrive at a party or the last to go home, and never, ever be both.
David Brown

As president, I will bring all the parties and stakeholders together. I am going to come up with a solution that respects the environment and does not cause an upheaval in the economy.
Al Gore

Egos seem to be a lot more frequent. I’ve been to loads of parties that were just crazy – whatever you would call Hollywood parties – and it’s not like piles of cocaine on the tables and chicks naked, running around.
Ethan Suplee

First of all, there’s no mention of political parties in the Constitution, so you begin American history with not only no political conventions but also no parties.
Michael Beschloss

Finally, I am encouraged to note that the Security Council issued a statement today expressing its concern about the massive humanitarian crisis in Darfur and calling on all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and reach a ceasefire.
Jan Egeland

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
Winston Churchill

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill

Every weekend we’ve been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I’ve been trying to host parties. It’s hard, because it’s a lot of work to do both.
Angie Martinez

At every party there are two kinds of people – those who want to go home and those who don’t. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.
Ann Landers

[N]o party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.
Desiderius Erasmus

The dying process begins the minute we are born, but it accelerates during dinner parties.
Carol Matthau

On with the dance! let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
George Gordon Byron

I am thankful for the mess to clean after a party because it means I have been surrounded by friends.
Nancie J. Carmody

Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we’re here we should dance.

Like other parties of the kind, it was first silent, then talky, then argumentative, then disputatious, then unintelligible, then altogether, then inarticulate, and then drunk. When we had reached the last step of this glorious ladder, it was difficult to get down again without stumbling.
George Gordon Byron

Drink, and dance and laugh and lie,
Love the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)
Dorothy Parker

No man does right by a woman at a party.
Harry Golden

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.
Evelyn Waugh

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.
Katherine Whitehorn

You know, we’ve got to do it someday… throw away all the guns and invite all the jokers from the North and the South in here to a cocktail party… last man standing on his feet at the end wins the war.
Hawkeye

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
Mason Cooley

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.
George Eliot

Governors of both political parties face a stark choice between unpopular tax increases and drastic cuts in Medicaid, education, public safety and other essential services.
Bill Delahunt

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.
William Henry Ashley

But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we’ll do that.
Francis Maude

Hollywood is very much an industry town. Your life becomes caught up in all of the parties and this list and that list. That’s not something that I respond well to.
Don Johnson

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.
Donald T. Regan