Pastoral Resources

I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.

But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.

Tony Blair will probably get thrown out by his party.

In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!

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.

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

A university is not a political party, and an education is not an indoctrination.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on.

And, you know, I watched him in Texas where he stood on his principle but he also reached out to members of the other party to try to work with them, to try to forge agreement where he could in keeping with his conservative principles to make Texas a better place.

You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

In coming to that agreement, my party had a clear philosophy throughout. In Northern Ireland, we should have institutions that respected the differences of the people and that gave no victory to either side.

To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.