#parties

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

#beyond #budget #capacity #challenges #congress

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. ↗

— Carroll Quigley

#acceptable #argument #doctrinaire #foolish #idea

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#day #eat #favorite #favorite things #films

I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#bell #christmas #cookies #earth #i

All parties without exception, when they seek for power, are varieties of absolutism. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

#exception #parties #power #seek #varieties

I'm the star of stage, screen, and television now, but I'm also available for children's parties and bar mitzvahs. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#available #bar #children #i #now

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me. ↗

— Calvin Klein

#attended #been #bothers #half #i

Vote counting and ballot collecting does not occur in the light of day. There are too many occasions when observers and opposing parties lose contact with the ballots. ↗

— Bob Schaffer

#ballots #collecting #contact #counting #day

I'm not really into clubbing, I like to go to parties after events, and those do end up at clubs or bars. But in my free time I go grocery shopping or to the gym, or I talk on the phone. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#bars #clubbing #clubs #end #events

'The Mark' I played a psychiatrist. And in the '50's everybody went to a psychiatrist because if you didn't, you'd have nothing to talk about at cocktail parties. ↗

— Rod Steiger

#because #cocktail #everybody #i #mark