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Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven. ↗

— Charles Williams

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And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups. ↗

— Wendell Willkie

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If I'd stayed on in London and carried on going to literary parties, it would have wrecked me as a writer. ↗

— Colin Wilson

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I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years. ↗

— Victoria Wood

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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties. ↗

— Sam Wyly

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You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress. ↗

— Steve Wynn

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The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. ↗

— Graham Greene

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I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons. ↗

— William Hague

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We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other. ↗

— Peter Hain

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A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

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