When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everyone from my street to come. I pretended I was an usher and tried to sell them all popcorn. – Sophie McShera
Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness. – Saul Williams
I was always proud on ‘Party of Five’. We never had the biggest audience, but we had arguably the most loyal. – Scott Wolf
Why, so soon as French Canadians, who are in a minority in this House and in the country, were to organise as a political party, they would compel the majority to organise as a political party, and the result must be disastrous to themselves. – Wilfrid Laurier
The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral. – Simon Hoggart
We cannot afford the creeping paralysis that destroys the effective will of democracy – the paralysis carried by hate and rancor, between class and class, person and person, party and party, as plague is carried through the streets of a town. – Stephen Vincent Benet
There’s so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neither party is aware of that. They’re too concerned with blasting each other. – Steve Chabot
The kleptocracy overseen by Chinese President Xi Jinping is more vicious and brutally anti-democratic than any regime run by any clique the Chinese Communist Party’s ruling elite has vomited up since the days of Mao Zedong. – Terry Glavin
I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years. – Vanilla Ice
OK, I’m not what you’d call ‘wild.’ But I’m no prude, either – I love to party, and I play a mean game of pool. – Shilpa Shetty
Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes. – Shelley Duvall
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. – Steven Weber
I didn’t come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. – Tony Blair
In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker’s party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image. – Sloane Crosley
Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today’s Republican party, just as the two Georges – the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern – found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972. – Steven Pinker
Hungarian communists were the most talented. They convinced everybody that reforming the communist party was better than making a new party. – Viktor Orban
They view massive immigration as a massive infusion of potential voters for the Democratic Party, and therefore will do nothing, absolutely nothing to stop that flow of legal or illegal entrance into the country. – Tom Tancredo
The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket. – Thomas E. Mann
Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken. – Xi Jinping
I feel sorry for the ’90s, because it was never able to be anything much more than the hangover to the party that was the ’80s. – Simon Le Bon
The Democratic chairman doesn’t need to be a household name. Most people didn’t know who Ron Brown was when he was chairman of the Democratic Party, but he put the party in a position where Bill Clinton could come in and he had a solid base to run from. – Susan Estrich
We don’t believe there is a functional conservative party in this country, and we certainly don’t think the Republican Party is that. – Stephen Bannon
Sena under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray has failed. It is a party on the decline, and that decline started the day Maharashtra Navnirman Sena was formed. – Sharad Pawar
I don’t know if there is a Democrat who necessarily doesn’t believe health care is a right instead of privilege. There is a significant between us and the Republican Party on that issue. – Tom Vilsack