#arty

The budget enforcement rules of the 1990s were an important part of getting the budget back into balance. It was done on a bipartisan basis. Those pay-as-you-go rules were tested and they worked. We are now in a one-party system, and we have thrown them out. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#balance #basis #bipartisan #budget #done

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#death #makes #martyr

Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#decisions #justice #know #longer #memory

I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#i #kind #know #labour #labour party

Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle. ↗

— Joe Biden

#aisle #been #being #cross #democratic

I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States. ↗

— John Bolton

#body #i #make #only #party

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#american history #both #cliches #election #every

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#been #cut #great #haven #heads

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left. ↗

— Robert Byrne

#farewell #left #memorial #party #service

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#boy #boy scout #campfire #encourage #faithful