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“The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt.”

Wells Said Bigs Happens Past Remember Names Party Talking Position Republican Majority Congress Average Corruption Voters Cynical Graveyard Whistling Indictment

Author:Larry Sabato

“I will admit no bond that holds me to a party a day longer than I agree to its principles. When men meet together to confer, and ascertain whether or not they do agree, and find that they differ - radically, essentially, irreconcilably differ - what belongs to an honorable position except to part? They cannot consistently act together any longer.”

Men Together Party Principles Position Agree Consistently Honorable Hold Me

Book:REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents: History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More

Source: REBEL YELL: History of the Confederacy, Memoirs and Biographies of the Confederate Leaders & Official Documents: History of the Confederate States, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Heros von Borcke, Constitution of the Confederate States and More

“There is no question that, if you look at name recognition and celebrity, my opponent is far-and-away ahead. I think that if you put my beliefs in one column and her positions in another column, I am almost convinced that a majority of the people in the Democratic Party would support my beliefs.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Names Belief Party Support Position Majority Democratic Convinced Recognition Opponents Democratic Party Columns

Author:Jonathan Tasini

“If the question is do people (in the Liberal Party) believe that human beings are the main cause of the planet warming, then I'd say a majority don't accept that position.”

People Ifs Believe Humans Causes Human Beings Party Accepting Position Planets Majority Liberal Party

Author:Nick Minchin

“The American people need no course in philosophy or political science or church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman. To most of us, the manipulative invoking of religion to advance a politician or a party is frightening and divisive. The American people will tolerate religious leaders taking positions for or against candidates.”

“Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and such children are an excellent addition to any party.”

Children Interesting Party Position Excellent Exception

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.”

Seems Political Courses Party Position Republican Concerned Profit Political Parties Holding On Respectability

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“The conservatives have already accepted a large part of the collectivist creed-a creed that has governed policy for so long that many of its institutions have come to be accepted as a matter of course and have become a source of pride to "conservative" parties who created them. Here the believer in freedom cannot but conflict with the conservative and take an essentially radical position, directed against popular prejudices, entrenched positions, and firmly established privileges. Follies and abuses are no better for having long been established principles of folly.”

“The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work.”

Years Firsts Courses Individual Party Principles Position Type Truth Is Collectives Nevertheless Cult

Author:Anastas Mikoyan

“This party will not take its position based on public opinion polls. We will not take a stand based on focus groups. We will not take a stand based on phone-in shows or householder surveys or any other vagaries of pubic opinion.”

Shows Party Opinion Focus Groups Position Phones Public Opinion Polls Surveys Opinion Polls Focus Groups

Author:Stephen Harper

“But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.”

Should Believe Party Clear Position Should Have Don't Believe Sexuality Campaigns Abortion Homosexuality

Author:Stephen Harper

“One of the really positive things about minority government is that there is the necessity to broker policy positions. What happens is you get a hybrid of what a single party might do. And I don't think that is a bad thing.”

Thinking Government Might Happens Party Policy Position Minorities Bad Things Hybrid Positive Things Brokers Really Positive Hybridity Minority Government

Author:Kathleen Wynne

“Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.”

May Wish Party Situation Position Conflict Competition Defined Incompatibility

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“The Federal Reserve... is in the position of the chaperone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up.”

Party Position Bowls Reserves Federal Reserve Warming Up Chaperones

Author:William McChesney Martin

“The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.”

Firsts War Party Position Organized Communist Exhibitions Communist Party

Author:Agnes Varda

“False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims, keep those who build on them in the dark from truth. Such are usually the prejudices imbibed from education, party, reverence, fashion, interest, et cetera.”

Interest Dark Party Fashion Position Prejudice Reverence Maxims Doubtful

Author:John Locke

“There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party.”

Two Facts Interest Party Position Degrees Range Factions

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I'm a person who acknowledges reality. I don't get up every morning and ask myself: What would I do differently if I were chancellor in a black-and-yellow (Christian Democrat and Free Democrat) coalition? The SPD (Social Democratic Party) and the (Christian Democrat and Christian Social) Union stand to weaken their own positions if they don't make this coalition a success. And we both want success.”

Ifs Want Persons Reality Christian Asks Social Black Party Morning Position Unions Democratic Democrat Get Up Acknowledge Yellow Every Morning Democratic Party Coalitions

Author:Angela Merkel

“My personal position is we have to look beyond the parties now and find a realistic solution to get us out of this crisis which would be to create growth and this isn't something that is going to happen by populism.”

Looks Happens Would Be Growth Party Position Solutions Crisis Realistic Populism

Author:Eva Kaili

“Liberals are like dogs: The liberal holds that he is true to the republic when he is true to himself. (It may not be as cozy an attitude as it sounds.) He greets with enthusiasm the fact of the journey, as a dog greets a man's invitation to take a walk. And he acts in the dog's way too, swinging wide, racing ahead, doubling back, covering many miles of territory that the man never traverses, all in the spirit of inquiry and the zest for truth. He leaves a crazy trail, but he ranges far beyond the genteel old party he walks with and he is usually in a better position to discover a skunk.”

Men Way May Facts Spirit Sound Walks Party Attitude Journey Crazy Dog Position He Man Wide Miles Enthusiasm Range Republic Territory Racing Inquiry Trails Invitations Covering Cozy Zest Traverse

Author:E. B. White

“One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name of open-mindedness to fall into a kind of relativistic denialism in which all positions are equally legitimate, all positions must be respected, and compromise must be entered into no matter what the starting point or reasonableness of the two parties.”

Kind Two Matter Life Is Desire Fall Names Party Position No Matter What Starting Tendencies Compromise Academic Disturbing Starting Point Open Mindedness Reasonableness Academic Life

Author:Lawrence Summers

“Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgements and personal information as they delicately balance their interests, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.”

“The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.”

Choices Party Position Democratic Contemporary American Politics Democratic Party Stance Unyielding

Author:Ross Douthat

“We have no intention of abandoning the American people to unproven theories and extreme positions. We're the people party and we're going to stick up for the people.”

People Party Position Theory Sticks Intention Extremes

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton, 1995, Bk. 1, January 1 to June 30, 1995

“If I go to a party I don't feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don't remember putting up my hand and all that often but I'd just find myself there.”

Ifs Feels Hands Would Be School Remember Party Position Speech Centre

Author:Hugh Jackman

“There are few positions less inspiriting than those of a discomfited party.”

Author:Benjamin Disraeli