Famous quotes containing the words party and/or wanted:
“Yesterday the Electoral Commission decided not to go behind the papers filed with the Vice-President in the case of Florida.... I read the arguments in the Congressional Record and can’t see how lawyers can differ on the question. But the decision is by a strictly party vote—eight Republicans against seven Democrats! It shows the strength of party ties.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)