Party Elders

Famous quotes containing the words party and/or elders:

“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)

“As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.”
—Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)