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Elia Kazan

"To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable."

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"To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable."

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"Once the principals in their party are seated, with those lower on the totem pole left to grumble and move on to find another table, our once-cozy booth transforms into a damp fusion of vacuous wretchedness, with the three women all complaining alternately about their wet hair/clothes and their respective distance from Talon, while the man himself is trying to maneuver his Paul Bunyan frame way too close to me."

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Asa Don Brown

"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."

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"The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking."

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"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic."

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"A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians."

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"Had he learned to draw, M. Renoir would have made a very pleasing canvas out of his 'Boating Party'."

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Asa Don Brown

"The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election."

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Asa Don Brown

"So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it."

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"The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish."

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Asa Don Brown

"I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later."

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