At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

-Maugham,W(illiam) Somerset
  A Writer's Notebook (published1949).

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessaryelements of a healthystate of political life.

-Mill,John Stuart
  On Liberty.

The Conservatives, as being by the law of theirexistence the stupidest party.

-Mill,John Stuart
Considerations on Representative Government, ch.7, note.

Party on, dude!

-Myers, Mike
   As Wayne Campbell in Wayne's World.

   'Who controls the past,'ran the Party slogan,'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  Nineteen Eighty-Four, pt.1, ch.3.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

-Rogers,Will
  The Illiterate Digest,'Breaking into theWriting Game'.

The Holy Spirit is the invisible third party who stands between me and the other, making us mutually aware.

-Taylor,JohnVincent
  The Go-Between God.

After three general election victories, leading the only party with clear policies, resolutely carried out, I intend to continue.

-Thatcher, Margaret HildaThatcher, Baroness
  On Michael Heseltine's challenge for the leadership of the Conservative Party, in the SundayTimes,18 Nov.

Morality is nothing other than the advantage of the stronger party.

-Thrasymachus   5c
Quoted in Plato Republic, 338b (translated by RobinWaterfield, 1993).

Party platforms are contracts with the people.

-Truman, Harry S
  Memoirs:Years of Trial and Hope.

   The party must protect itself against the activities of small groups of inflexible political persuasion†having in common only their arrogant dogmatism† I have no wish to lead a party of political zombies.

-Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron
  Labour Party Conference, 30 Sep.

   A constant effort to keep a party together, without sacrificing either principle or the essentials of basic strategy, is the very stuff of political leadership. Macmillan was canonized for it.

-Wilson of Rievaulx, (James) Harold Wilson, Baron
  FinalTerm:The Labour Government1974^76.