Major Political Party

Famous quotes containing the words major, political and/or party:

“The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision.”
—John Major (b. 1943)

“For aesthetics is the mother of ethics.... Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe—not empirically, alas, but only theoretically—that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“There was an old party of Lyme
Who married three wives at one time.”
—Edward Lear (1812–1888)