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Jim Carrey Actor, Comedian
Party

"I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be on, performing."

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Jose Saramago Writer
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"Abstention means you stayed at home or went to the beach. By casting a blank vote, you're saying that you understand your responsibility, you have a political conscience and you came to vote, but you don't agree with any of the existing parties and this is the only way you have of saying so."

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Joseph Stalin Politician, Revolutionary
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"In what do the activities of the Communist Parties consist? In what ways can they manifest themselves? These activities usually consist in the organization of working masses, in organizing meetings, demonstrations, strikes, etc. It is absolutely clear that American Communists cannot perform this in Soviet territory. The American workers are not in the U.S.S.R."

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Joseph Stalin Politician, Revolutionary
Party

"We have no parties standing in opposition to each other, just as we have no class of capitalists and a class of workers exploited by capitalists in opposition to each other."

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Juan Cole Historian
Party

"It's not proper for a professor to go before a class and promote one party or another. That's not academic scholarship."

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Jean Paul Writer
Party

"Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall."

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Mike Lee Filmmaker
Party

"My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement."

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Mike Thompson Politician
Party

"A blue dog, you know, is the opposite of a yellow dog. And a yellow dog was somebody who was willing to follow his party even when he knew it was wrong."

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Mikhail Bulgakov Novelist, Playwright
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"What's the use of dying in a ward surrounded by a lot of groaning and croaking incurables? Wouldn't it be much better to throw a party with that twenty-seven thousand and take poison and depart for the other world to the sound of violins, surrounded by lovely drunken girls and happy friends?"

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Howard Dean Politician
Party

"The Democratic Party, all the candidates from Washington, they all know each other, they all move in the same circles, and what I'm doing is breaking into the country club."

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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
Party

"A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned."

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Party

"And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"I don't think there's anybody who's run a campaign like [Donald Trump] successfully in modern history, not that I can think of. And, as a consequence because he didn't have the supports of many of the establishment in his own party, because he ran sort of an improvisational campaign."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"Obviously, we've all had disagreements and differences in the past. I suspect we'll have them again in the future. But last night as Americans learned that the United States had carried out an operation that resulted in the capture and death of Osama bin Laden. I think we experienced the same sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. We were reminded again that there is a pride in what this nation stands for. And what we can achieve that runs far deeper than party, far deeper than politics."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead."

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