“Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.” ShouldLeftPartyDefinedAgentsAlsIntoleranceAmerican PoliticsJerry Author:John McCain
“The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say tyrannical, two-party system. We have the Republicans and we have the Democrats, and we have almost no one else, no other strictly political aggregate that amounts to a corporal's guard in the struggle for power.” TwoFactsMightPoliticalPartyStruggleAmountRepublicanDemocratPatternsPersistentAmerican PoliticsTwo Party System Book:Parties and Politics in America Source: Parties and Politics in America
“...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last.” LastsPartyHavensNew YorkBrokenRepublicanEastRepublican PartyAmerican PoliticsEditorials Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“As much as I cherish your [McCarthy's] right to a platform as an independent candidate I am not going to sit here quietly and listen to you denigrate the two party system. It has served our country well over the last two hundred years.” YearsWellsTwoCountryLastsPartyHundredIndependentOur CountryCandidatesCherishPlatformsAmerican PoliticsTwo Party System Author:John Anderson
“I'm convinced Mr. Reagan would never be elected- I don't think his views are held by a majority of the American people...it's the Republican party that's going to be committing suicide by nominating candidates of that genre.” PeopleThinkingViewsPartyRepublicanSuicideMajorityConvincedGenreCandidatesRepublican PartyAmerican PoliticsCommitting SuicideNominating Author:John Anderson
“The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.” LittlesCarePartyGroupsDemocraticGiantsAmerican PoliticsDemocratic PartyDay Care Author:Pat Buchanan
“Reagan "has conducted an arms race on earth," boomed Mondale. A race generally implies two parties. The Soviets contributed a little bit to this problem, if Mondale had not noticed.” IfsLittlesTwoProblemEarthBitsPartyRaceArmsLittle BitAmerican PoliticsArms Race Author:Hugh Sidey
“The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.” PartyLeaderDemocracyDemocraticCommunismAmerican PoliticsDemocratic Party Author:Jack Kemp
“Third parties in America gravitate not only to the extremes, but to irrelevance. (John Anderson's upcoming presidential campaign will undoubtedly confirm both tendencies.)” AmericaPartyThirdsExtremesCampaignsTendenciesPresidentialAmerican PoliticsThird PartiesPresidential CampaignIrrelevance Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The Democratic party today is not so much a political party as a milling herd, and the herd is easily stampeded.” TodayPoliticalPartyDemocraticPolitical PartiesAmerican PoliticsDemocratic PartyHerds Author:Emmett Tyrrell
“There are cycles in American politics. US cycles are even more pronounced because we Americans have a totally entrepreneurial presidential system. We don't have parliamentary opposition parties with a shadow prime minister and shadow cabinets. Every four years, the opposition reinvents itself.” YearsPartyFourShadowMinistersPresidentialOppositionCyclesPrimeFour YearsPrime MinisterAmerican PoliticsEntrepreneurialCabinetsParliamentaryOpposition Parties Author:Charles Krauthammer
“The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.” ChoicesPartyPositionDemocraticContemporaryAmerican PoliticsDemocratic PartyStanceUnyielding Author:Ross Douthat