#parties

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. ↗

— Graham Greene

#being #boring #even #every #everything

I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons. ↗

— William Hague

#against #been #believe #day #government

We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other. ↗

— Peter Hain

#been #bombs #bullets #each #fighting

Without rebuilding the confidence between parties, you will never succeed. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#confidence #never #parties #rebuilding #succeed

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you're not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything. ↗

— Tom Allen

#aisle #almost #always #anything #apart

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout. ↗

— Traian Basescu

#depending #divide #interests #only #parties

I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#dinner #dinner parties #everyone #happen #i

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#leftists #once #other #parties #power

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

I don't like parties. I prefer something more intimate, just for the closest people. ↗

— Gisele Bundchen

#i #intimate #just #like #more