“I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.” ThinkingHappensPartyRepublicanAppreciateLaborEnglandDisappearComparisonModeratesExtremistBlair Author:Evan Thomas
“In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.” IfsFoundSocialRoomsPartyKingsEnglandDinnerThrowingGatheringCocktailsDinner PartyMolotovMolotov Cocktail Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Gentl, I am a party man. I believe that, without party, Parliamentary government is impossible. I look upon Parliamentary government as the noblest government in the world, and certainly the one most suited to England.” MenWorldBelieveLooksGovernmentI BelievePartyImpossibleEnglandLook UpParliamentaryParliamentary Government Book:Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“We who represent the Unionist Party in England and Scotland have supported, and we mean to support to the end, the loyal minority [in Ireland]. We support them not because we are intolerant, but because their claims are just.” MeanEndsPartySupportClaimsEnglandMinoritiesLoyalIrelandScotland Author:Bonar Law
“The people who started the American government, the founders of the Constitution, didn't like political parties but they were forced to start them. Nobody ever created political parties in England, they evolved. And there do tend to be two general tendencies that focus around how much government you think you need.” PeopleThinkingNeedsTwoGovernmentPoliticalPartyFocusConstitutionEnglandTendenciesFoundersPolitical PartiesAmerican Government Author:Barney Frank
“And our experience in England was that. It was a delight. I had never even been to England and I got to spend five months there in a beautiful estate and just party with these gorgeous men and women and poke fun at their beloved genre, which they all loved. We teased it, but it's so gentle, that you're still swept away the whole time.” MenStillsWholeBeautifulFunPartyFiveMonthsMen And WomenEnglandDelightGenreGentleBelovedEstatesGorgeousPokeSwept Away Author:Jerusha Hess
“In England, I'm this venerable old granddad, the one who always gets pissed at parties and puts a lampshade on his head.” PartyEngland Author:Fatboy Slim
“I've learned a few things from the tea party, both the political one and the one in Alice in Wonderland. From the first, I learned that you can make people angrily shuffle in roughly the same direction if you appeal to their beliefs in poorly defined ways. From the second, I learned that England has some sort of substance called treacle.” PeopleIfsWayFirstsPoliticalBeliefPartyEnglandDefinedTeaAppealsSubstanceI've LearnedTea PartyWonderlandShuffleTreacle Author:Lore Sjoberg