Top 100 Both Parties Quotes
#1. John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.
Frank Mankiewicz
#2. And there is a proud kind of moderation likewise, when men will take upon them to censure both parties, as if they were wiser than both,
Richard Sibbes
#3. Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs.
David Limbaugh
#4. If you're looking for someone to go to Washington, to go along to get along, to get - to agree with the career politicians in both parties who get in bed with the lobbyists and special interests, then I ain't your guy.
Ted Cruz
#5. Oftentimes, the best negotiations result in a deal that benefits both parties. There are times when you simply want to go for the jugular, but often, you want the other person to feel pleased with the outcome, even if you are the clear victor.
Ivanka Trump
#6. Borderlines create the vicious circles they fear most. They become angry and drive the relationship to the breaking point, then switch to a posture of helplessness and contrition, beg for reconciliation. If both parties are equally enmeshed, chaos and conflict become the soul of the relationship.
Theodore Millon
#7. There's a different leader in Syria now. Many of the members of Congress of both parties who have gone to Syria in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer.
Hillary Clinton
#8. No one can manipulate anyone else. In any relationship, both parties know what they're doing. even if one complains later on that they were used.
Paulo Coelho
#9. Friendships can survive after massive disappointment, but only if both parties are honest with one another.
Amy Dickinson
#10. Both parties promote "changing Washington," but in reality they like Washington just the way it is: little gets done that they don't like, and none of our officials are truly held accountable.
Andrew P. Napolitano
#11. Jealousy is, I think, the worst of all faults because it makes a victim of both parties.
Gene Tierney
#12. In a health relationship, it should always be about them. Two people are involved. And both of them are risking their hearts, their souls, in order to stay together. If both parties don't support and appreciate the individuality of the other, the relationship won't work.
Lisa S. Lewis
#13. I think we need people in Washington who really have more of a sense of a George Washington approach to it, which is to serve and go home. I think far too many of both parties see it as a career. And I don't think that's good for our country.
Scott Rigell
#15. I believe any time that both parties are talking, it's a good thing.
Kevin McCarthy
#16. When women and men listen with the heart a liberating or cleansing process comes about in the collective, and something transformative moves through both parties and into the dialogue.
William Keepin
#17. If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters - the Adivasis and the Dalits. And in the meantime, the zamindars are laying the oil pipelines and selling both parties weapons.
Arundhati Roy
#18. A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied
Larry David
#19. They say that it's hard for men to agree. You'd be surprised how easy it is - when both parties hold as their moral absolute that neither exists for the sake of the other and that reason is their only means of trade.
Ayn Rand
#20. The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.
Eleanor Clift
#21. We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.
Malcolm X
#22. Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.
Solon
#23. Today the courts are choked with lawsuits brought by people against the New King. When they sue each other as a result of an automobile accident they in fact sue the King, for both parties are likely insured ... Steadily the courts have become clearing-houses for the insurance industry.
Gerry Spence
#24. To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite.
George Washington
#25. When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions and choices based on what is right, what is best, what is valued most highly.
Blaine Lee Pardoe
#26. So I really would like to see both parties respond to the poor with greater commitment. But I've got to tell you, the Democrats, I feel, are doing a better job in that respect than Republicans are.
Tony Campolo
#27. Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so.
Emma Bull
#28. As I understand it, triangulation is the idea that you demonstrate to some set of swing voters that you are politically palatable by poking the extremes of both parties in the eye.
Daniel Pfeiffer
#29. The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
Lamar Odom
#30. When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
Beau Willimon
#31. Both parties aren't capable of anything other than a strongly emotional evaluation of the consequences, while ignoring the causes.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#32. Managers don't like giving appraisals, and employees don't like getting them. Perhaps they're not liked because both parties suspect what the evidence has proved for decades: Traditional performance appraisals don't work.
W. Edwards Deming
#33. And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created.
Jay Carney
#34. Every kind of relationship needs encouragement from both parties. Be it marriage, dating, friendship, enmity etc.
Nike Thaddeus
#35. My goal is to help elect not only the first but second woman president. That will be real progress. I believe our next presidential election will see women at the top of the ticket for both parties.
Barbara Lee
#36. If we don't get gun-control laws in this country, we are full of beans. To have the National Rifle Association rule the United States is pathetic. And I agree with Mayor Michael Bloomberg: It's time to put up or shut up about gun control for both parties.
Harvey Weinstein
#37. Clinton is the first female to be taken seriously for the highest office in the land. She has the credentials, the stamina and she is a good campaigner. Her detractors in both parties like to say she can't win, but they may be proven wrong.
Helen Thomas
#38. One Must Choose Among Both Parties Either To Be A Wise Man That Die To Live In Righteousness And Blissfulness For Eternity Or Be A Foolish Man That Lives To Die For Vanity.
Baba Tunde Ojo-Olubiyo
#39. I think one of the most destructive things in terms of American security has been for all of our leaders, without exception in both parties, to identify Osama bin Laden as a gangster or as a madman, as an apocalyptic character who's out to destroy our civilization.
Michael Scheuer
#40. When our expectations match our companion's capabilities, there is less stress for both parties. This is the secret to improving the dementia caregiving experience.
Judy Cornish
#41. Compromise is most likely when both parties respect each other no matter how much they disagree. In stressful situations where you need a consensus, respect sometimes means saying nothing and refraining from name-calling even when irritated.
Ben Carson
#42. The government understands - every government, every administration, both parties, understands - that that power, they just don't have.
Floyd Abrams
#43. Growing up, I had a sense of the importance of commerce and trade to everyday life. Our family lived in several countries, and I was fascinated by the free exchange of goods and services between individuals and companies - the way both parties could benefit.
Muhtar Kent
#44. For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. Sometimes a person needs us to abandon them, but we hang-on anyway, which can be devastating for both parties.
Bryant McGill
#46. An imbalanced association is when one or both parties become abusive and takes unfair advantage, tries to block another's enlightenment or success.
Frederick Lenz
#47. A breakup is a loss to both parties; not only to he or she who is told that it's over.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#48. The unfortunate and inescapable historical truth is that those in government - from both parties and with a few courageous exceptions - do not feel constrained by the Constitution. They think they can do whatever they want.
Andrew Napolitano
#49. In a two-party system, if both parties ignore public opinion, there is no place voters can turn.
Howard Zinn
#50. When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
Orson Scott Card
#51. Krystal's slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.
J.K. Rowling
#52. The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
Gary Ackerman
#53. Ridiculous that some people feel superior to the gay minority. They're the only couples you'll ever find poking around for ceramics and candle holders in the winery gift shop and both parties really want to be there.
Richard Jeni
#54. I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.
William Kempe
#55. The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
#56. Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.
Clare Boothe Luce
#57. Reading is a collaboration between the writer and reader. Both parties must keep that in mind when dealing with a work of fiction."
{Guy Gavriel Kay}
Guy Gavriel Kay
#58. Community colleges are popular among political leaders of both parties. But because of the lack of funding and a lack of direction, they have lost their critical edge in preparing workers for a 21st-century economy.
Nina Easton
#59. The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully interferes.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#60. It's very important that there should be cross-fertilisation between government and academia. Both parties can benefit from having a better understanding of how the other works.
Nicholas Stern
#61. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.
Chuck Schumer
#62. In Washington, the U.S. House passed a bill unanimously. Every single member of both parties voted for it. What was it? To deny Social Security benefits to Nazis. So from now on, no SS for the SS.
Craig Ferguson
#63. The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,
because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#64. The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
Hamilton Jordan
#65. Donald Trump is a breath of fresh air in the nation where the political establishment from both parties has betrayed their constituencies time and time again.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
#66. The lesson is that voters in both parties are in a very anti-establishment, populist mood. Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate.
Mara Liasson
#67. Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.
Gerry Spence
#68. What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.
Woodrow Wilson
#69. There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#70. Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.
Will Cuppy
#71. How long can we go without real leadership? It's like an experiment. It's [a problem with ] both parties, it's beyond belief.
Lewis Black
#72. I would quarrel with both parties, and with every individual of each, before I would subjugate my understanding, or prostitute my tongue or pen to either.
John Adams
#73. The profound originality of a divine-human pact in which both parties complain endlessly about each other has too rarely been acknowledged as such.
Jack Miles
#74. The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
Milton Friedman
#75. The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.
Alexander Pope
#76. We do live in an environment of crony capitalism, and the main reason we do is that loopholes are for sale, and both parties have their hands out through those loopholes.
Gary Johnson
#77. In any disagreement, I believe both parties are 50% wrong. Taking responsibility for your part fixes most issues.
L.R.W. Lee
#78. They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one ever really wins or loses but which can go on forever, if both parties are willing.
Neil Gaiman
#79. Adam Smith's key insight was that both parties to an exchange can benefit and that, so long as cooperation is strictly voluntary, no exchange can take place unless both parties do benefit.
Milton Friedman
#80. Games are not about being told things. If you want to tell people things, write a book or make a movie. Games are dialogues - and dialogue requires both parties to take the floor once in a while
Warren Spector
#81. But by marriages of prudence we mean those in which both parties have sown their wild oats already. That's like scarlatina - one has to go through it and get it over.
Leo Tolstoy
#82. All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
Quentin Crisp
#83. 'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the perfect satisfaction of both parties, if they are worthy the name of Englishman.
Joseph Furphy
#84. Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.
Blaise Pascal
#85. If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced.
Frans De Waal
#86. We will talk about the contrast between both parties' nominees and our desire to continue to build on our success in helping people reach the middle class.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#87. There are good people, who are in politics - in both parties - who hold this at arm's length, because if they acknowledge it and recognize it, then the moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable.
Al Gore
#88. It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.
Glenn Beck
#89. True love is a love without possessiveness. You love and still you are free, and the other person is also free. The kind of love that has no joy is not true love. If both parties cry every day, then that's not true love. There must be joy and freedom and understanding in love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#90. The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.
Hamilton Jordan
#91. In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
Barack Obama
#92. Ultimately it boils down to the same thing all relationships boil down to: eating humble pie. I sometimes eat quite a lot. But, however bitter it might taste, it's the best pie. It's on the menu constantly for both parties.
Madonna Ciccone
#93. Louis Brandeis never had the opportunity - or he never sought the opportunity I should say - to work closely with African American lawyers. He was also a Southern Democrat, you know, at a time when both parties were supportive of segregation.
Jeffrey Rosen
#94. Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
Charles Williams
#95. Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.
W. H. Auden
#96. From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.
Gabrielle Giffords
#97. I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
Jeff Lindsay
#98. There are two parties involved in every corrupt transaction, typically a government official and a business person. Yet those who pay bribes are often depicted as innocent victims ... The reality is that both parties conspire to defraud the public.
Lynda Chalker, Baroness Chalker Of Wallasey
#99. My most disastrous date was not so much a disaster as uncomfortable for both parties involved.
Jennifer Aniston
#100. The great issues facing us today are not Republican issues or Democratic issues. The political parties can debate the means, but both parties must embrace the end objective, which is to make America great again.
Lee Iacocca
