#parties

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I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.


Nick Clegg


#avoided #claim #democrats #did #every

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown committed to John Major's spending envelopes in 1997. No-one said that Tony Blair and John Major were identical. This happens quite often that parties actually, despite all the sound and fury, agree on the overall need to make sure that we live within our means as a country.


Nick Clegg


#agree #blair #brown #committed #country

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.


Nick Clegg


#ballot box #box #constantly #each #gang

I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.


Paris Hilton


#appearances #around #constantly #endorsing #fact

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.


Franklin Pierce


#anomaly #attempting #complete #exist #governments

At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.


Karl Rove


#dealing #different #fundamentally #parties #two

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism.


George Washington


#history #patriotism #political-parties #political-philosophy #politics

All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next day. A pal never forgives, he just forgets, and a woman forgives but never forgets. That's how it is. That's why women aren't allowed to have parties. Being forgiven is very unpleasant.


Tove Jansson


#gender #humor #parties #forgiveness

My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.


Jennifer Aniston


#date #disaster #disastrous #involved #most

After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made boat and began the descent of the river.


William Henry Ashley


#april #began #board #boat #departure