party quotes

The word 'party' means different things to different people. What is your first association when you hear it? Going out for a crazy night with friends, grabbing a good book and a cup of tea and staying home? Or maybe something completely different? Read how famous people from all over the globe used the word 'party' and what they associated it with here - at Quote Coyote.

“Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.”

— Mark Twain

“I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.”

— Marilyn Monroe

“I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“It's time for the party of big ideas, not the party of Big Brother!”

— Mitt Romney

“Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.”

— Joseph Stalin

“In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing. ”

— Jim Carrey

“I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties. ”

— Hillary Clinton

“The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.' ”

— Johnny Depp

“Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it. ”

— Clint Eastwood

“At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom.”

— George Carlin

“I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.”

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“Government stimulates the democrat party.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.”

— Rush Limbaugh

“No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.”

— Barack Obama

“We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.”

— Barack Obama

“When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.”

— Barack Obama

“A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.”

— Ron Paul

“You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.”

— Colin Powell

“If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.”

— Ronald Reagan

“I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.”

— Henry Rollins

“When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.”

— Henry Rollins

“Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.”

— Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.”

— Milton Friedman

“I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.”

— Frederick Douglass

“I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.”

— Frederick Douglass

“I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff.”

— Ellen DeGeneres