The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.
I will support my party when they are right on an issue, but am not afraid to stand up to party bosses who are not looking out for the best interests of my constituents and our country.
I always have the best story at the party. Anyone telling a story at a party is like, 'No, no, you've got to listen to my story!' I'm like, 'Step aside, everybody. I'm going to blow the doors off this place.'
I created my own party. It's called the Sloth and Indolence Party, and I'm running as an anarchist candidate in the best sense of that word. I've studied the presidency carefully.
The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.
I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.
Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it.
I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.
My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it's not true. I am not such a party person.
Most Tea Party activists consider Obama a big-spending liberal. Some even question his eligibility to be president.
A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.
The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.
Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President.
And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets.
We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians.
I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.
Let me tell you what the Tea Party stands for. It stands for the fact that we are taxed enough already.
The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.
Is Tony Blair of the Labour party? The answer to that is profoundly 'yes', but that is not how, sentimentally, he is regarded in the Labour movement generally.
In order to restore our country to the principles on which it was founded, we need to elect leaders that believe in the principles of the party, not just the power of the party.
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.
