“Of the seven million Americans living abroad, one million are military, and not all of them are Republicans. The other six million are overwhelmingly Democrat because people who live in foreign countries have a much different perspective as to what is happening in our country.” PeopleDifferentCountryMillionsMilitaryPerspectiveRepublicanSixHappeningsDemocratSevenOur CountryDifferent PerspectiveForeign CountriesLiving Abroad Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“I'm really not a partisan political person. I remember when I was in Washington they kept trying to get me to say whether I was a Republican or a Democrat. I just said, my politics are children. That's all I know anything about.” KnowsTryingChildrenPersonsSaidRememberPoliticalRepublicanDemocratRemember WhenPartisans Author:Edward Zigler
“The reason we tend to support Republicans is they're taking us toward the cliff at only 70 miles per hour miles an hour and the Democrats are taking us 100 miles an hour.” ReasonHoursSupportRepublicanDemocratMilesCliffs Author:Charles Koch
“U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz accused Republicans of trying to make it a crime to be an illegal alien. Democrats see a conspiracy plot. First Republicans want to say that illegal aliens are illegal, next they're going to want to take away their voting rights.” WantTryingFirstsNextRightsCrimeRepublicanDemocratAliensVotingPlotIllegalConspiracyAccusedRight To VoteIllegal Aliens Author:Argus Hamilton
“The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.” IdeasPartyRepublicanDemocratNo IdeaBad IdeasTwo Party System Author:Lewis Black
“It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you're young or old, what the racial thing is, nothing matters to me.” IfsMatterYoungRepublicanDemocratNothing Matters Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue over stuff that's not important, like gay marriage or the war in Iraq or illegal immigration... When I run - if I run - we're going to talk about real issues like improving our schools, cleaning up our neighborhoods of drugs and crime and making Alabama a better place for all people.” PeopleIfsWantImportantWarRealGovernmentRunningSchoolStuffRealizingIssuesCrimeSeriousRepublicanGayDrugDemocratIraqArguingImmigrationNeighborhoodIllegalImprovingBetter PlaceCleaningGay MarriageAlabamaIllegal ImmigrationCleaning Up Author:Charles Barkley
“Liberals claim to love gays when it allows them to vent their spleen at Republicans. But disagree with liberals and their first response is to call you gay. Liberals are gays' biggest champions on issues most gays couldn't care less about, like gay marriage or taxpayer funding of photos of men with bullwhips up their derrieres. But who has done more to out, embarrass, and destroy the lives of gay men who prefer to keep their orientation private than Democrats? Who is more intolerant of gays in the Republican Party than gays in the Democratic Party?” MenFirstsDoneCarePartyIssuesRepublicanGayClaimsDemocraticDemocratResponseChampionDisagreeRepublican PartyGay MarriageDemocratic PartyFundingTaxpayersOrientationGay MenSpleen Author:Ann Coulter
“Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics.” MeanDoeImportantMatterHelpingNextSportsDecisionNumbersRepublicanNewsElectionDemocratDebateObsessedCyclesPolls Author:Barack Obama
“...the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are beholden to industry. They always will be. And, the American people are fooled when they think that if you can just get McGovern instead of Humphrey, or if you can get a Democrat instead of a Republican, this will be the end of our problems.” PeopleIfsThinkingEndsProblemPartyIndustryRepublicanDemocraticDemocratRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyFooled Author:Benjamin Spock
“The Republicans are 90% corrupt, and the Democrats are 50% corrupt.” RepublicanDemocrat Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.” SaidPastPresidentRepublicanDemocratVicesLibertarianVegetarianVice President Author:John McCain
“I intend to do what I can, working with my congressional colleagues, Republicans and Democrats, to help bring about the changes to the practices and Institutions of our democracy that they want and deserve.” WantI CanHelpingPracticeDemocracyRepublicanDeserveInstitutionsDemocratColleagues Author:John McCain
“As both a conservative and a Republican, I confess that we deserve to lose this year. We have governed badly and have earned the wrath of voters, who will learn in due course how inadequate the nostrums of liberal Democrats are to the crisis of our times. If I cannot in good faith cast a vote against the Bush years by voting for Obama, I can at least do so by withholding my vote from McCain.” IfsYearsI CanCoursesLosesRepublicanDeserveVoteCrisisDemocratCastsConservativeDuesOur TimeVotingVotersWrathInadequateMccainGood FaithWithholding Author:Rod Dreher
“Maybe the reality-based fractions of red and blue America are reaching a sort of consensus: Just as Republicans are beginning to get why George Bush makes so many Americans want to rip their hair out, a lot of Democrats have finally, viscerally come to understand Clinton-loathing. Mutual, symmetrical disillusionment; it's a start.” WantRealityAmericaHairRepublicanRedBlueClintonDemocratReachingMutualConsensusRipFractionsLoathingDisillusionmentSymmetricalRed And Blue Author:Kurt Andersen
“We have got to get beyond this political bologna. I'm not allowed to say anything positive about Hillary Clinton because then I'm not a loyal Republican, and she's not allowed to say anything positive about me because then she's not a loyal Democrat. What a stupid way to run a country.” WayCountryRunningPoliticalStupidRepublicanClintonDemocratLoyalSay AnythingBologna Author:Newt Gingrich
“A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.” IfsWayTryingWarFallHouseGoalPresidentWhiteDecisionAchieveRepublicanNegativeDemocratCriticalDefenseDebateTerroristBitterWheelsWhite HouseTerritoryApprovalComponentsScandalAttackingRatingPartisansFalling OffLegalityAccusersRallyingApproval RatingEnablers Author:Bob Barr
“The shutdown may have temporarily sidetracked the Republicans, yet Obamacare threatens much worse for the Democrats. By 2014 the former will be ancient history, while the latter will be an ongoing mess.” MayRepublicanDemocratAncientFormerMessLatterOngoingObamacareAncient History Author:Victor Davis Hanson
“Democrats in the contrast with Republicans, almost no matter which Republican is nominated. Because they are taking such similar positions.” MatterPositionRepublicanDemocratContrast Author:Joy-Ann Reid
“The Democrats have done so poorly in red states and essentially been evacuated from the red - the entire red part of America particularly off year elections. But I guess they proved that all you need is a completely scandalized Republican opponent.” NeedsYearsStatesDoneAmericaRepublicanRedElectionDemocratOpponents Author:Joy-Ann Reid
“I have prided myself with striving for objectivity, something many literary-minded critics dismiss as impossible. But in Washington, reporters are practically the only people who actually spend time talking to Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, and I find the longer I report in Washington, the mushier and less conclusive my own views are. I like it that way.” PeopleWayMy OwnViewsTalkingImpossibleRepublicanDemocratCriticsStriveReportsReportersEnd TimesSpend TimeObjectivity Author:Jon Weisman
“As long as Republicans won't - won't raise taxes and as long as Democrats won't in any way make entitlements based on need, rather than just across the board, I really think that we're doomed to this deadlock.” ThinkingWayNeedsLongRepublicanTaxesRaisesDemocratBoardsDoomedEntitlement Author:Mark Shields
“You have to understand that Republicans are on lockstep on one issue. They will not raise taxes. Democrats are in lockstep on another issue, pro-choice in all cases on abortion.” ChoicesCasesIssuesRepublicanTaxesRaisesDemocratAbortion Author:Mark Shields
“The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games.” GamesSidesRepublicanStandingDemocratBoth SidesPlaying Games Author:Mark Shields
“If I was to say what I am, I'd be a Labour man. I like Tony Blair a lot, I think he's a good man. And in America I'd definitely be a Democrat; I'd never be a Republican.” IfsThinkingMenAmericaRepublicanDemocratLabourGood ManBlair Author:Elton John
“I think is interesting is that term is so pejorative or understood to be so pejorative and there`s a real difference between how Republicans, it seems to me, think of that and how Democrats do. I don`t think Democrats feel as negatively about the Democratic Party establishment as Republicans do feel about their party`s establishment.” ThinkingFeelsRealSeemsTermDifferencesInterestingPartyRepublicanUnderstoodDemocraticDemocratEstablishmentDemocratic Party Author:Chris Hayes
“There's a whole gay culture in DC, and there are as many gay Republicans as there are gay Democrats.” WholeCultureRepublicanGayDemocratGay Culture Author:Kirby Dick
“I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a shrewd politician, and very good in public relations, although she had the usual media help in this. As a Republican and a conservative, I can say ruefully that the Democrats and the liberals tend to get it; that when she said something, it was put in a nice way and highlighted properly by the appropriate media, so that it sounded good.” ThinkingWaySaidI CanHelpingNiceMediaPoliticianRepublicanRelationDemocratVery GoodConservativeAppropriateUsualPublic RelationsEleanor Author:William A. Rusher
“And they are much more skeptical of the very idea of having immigration limits, whereas the public - again, independents and Democrats, as well as Republicans, although not necessarily all in the same proportions - have a much stronger sense of the American government and American law having responsibility to Americans specifically rather than to people around the world. So the polarization is up versus down, not really right versus left.” PeopleWorldWellsIdeasGovernmentLawLeftResponsibilityRepublicanLimitsStrongerDemocratImmigrationAround The WorldProportionVersusSkepticalAmerican GovernmentPolarizationAmerican Law Author:Mark Krikorian
“I was elected by the Democrats to be chair of the Veterans Committee, which I'm very proud of. And now am the rankings member on the Budget Committee, leader of the Democrats in opposition to the majority Republicans.” LeaderProudRepublicanMembersMajorityDemocratBudgetsOppositionChairsCommitteesVeteranRanking Author:Bernie Sanders
“We'll get things done together. Democrats, Republicans, independents, we're going to make progress together when I'm president.” DoneTogetherPresidentProgressRepublicanDemocratThings Done Author:Hillary Clinton
“A new poll out taken by a Republican group that shows most Democrats prefer socialism to capitalism. Those terms don't mean what they did maybe 40, 50 years ago.” YearsMeanShowsTermTakenGroupsRepublicanCapitalismYears AgoDemocratSocialismPolls Author:Chris Matthews
“Talking about jobs, and people - I don`t care if you`re a Democrat or Republican, they want jobs. And Sanders is talking about it and [Donald]Trump is talking about it and bringing jobs back and making our country great again.” PeopleIfsWantCountryCareJobsTalkingTrumpRepublicanDemocratDon't CareOur CountryI Don't Care Author:Sue Lowden
“If Donald Trump is our nominee, it could be the end of the Republican Party. It will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover. And the Democrats will be joyful about it. It's not going to happen.” IfsWayMayEndsHappensAblePartyTrumpRepublicanDemocratJoyfulSplitsRepublican PartySplinters Author:Marco Rubio
“Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, "He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week." It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame.” KnowsWorldWantPersonsHandsSchoolLastsStuffWeekFiguresPoliticianRepublicanHigh SchoolShameDemocratCompromisePettyPointingJuniorsJunior High Author:Ice Cube
“I think there's something remarkable happening here that nobody is talking about. They're skirting the issue. For the longest time, the Republican Party has told us that they can't win with just Republican votes. And that's why they support amnesty. That's why they support the Democrats on many of their issues to go out and get Hispanics or other minorities.” ThinkingWinningPartyTalkingSupportIssuesRepublicanHappeningsVoteDemocratMinoritiesRemarkableRepublican PartyCan't WinAmnesty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“A lot of people disagree with me on this, but the people who want somebody not of Washington, it's serious this time. It's - the disconnect between the Republican Party establishment and the Democrat establishment and the people of this country is longer, broader, wider than I've ever seen it.” PeopleWantCountryPartySeriousRepublicanDemocratDisagreeEstablishmentRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think we're going to move forward because I think at the end of all of this, everybody is going to ultimately realize that if the Democrat Party that is the most destructive force in this country. It's not one of these Republicans. And they have to be stopped and they have to be stopped in this election if this country is to be restored to its founding principles and the ideals that the majority of Americans associate with this country.” IfsThinkingEndsCountryMovingForceRealizingPartyPrinciplesRepublicanIdealsElectionMajorityDemocratMoving ForwardDestructiveAssociatesFounding Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats. I don't know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they'll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.” KnowsWayTryingDoeHandsPartyVictoryRepublicanHappeningsElectionDemocratDefeatRepublican Party Author:Benjamin Carson
“People have to recognize that it’s going to take some time for trust to be built not only between Democrats and Republicans, between Congress and the White House, between the House and the Senate. You know, we’ve had a dysfunctional political system for a while now.” PeopleKnowsPoliticalHouseWhiteRepublicanBuiltDemocratCongressWhite HouseSenatePolitical Systems Author:Barack Obama
“I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.” RepublicanGayDemocratFrustratedPartisans Author:Andrew Sullivan
“There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.” SeemsGovernmentCitiesNew YorkPoliticianRepublicanDemocratObviousCorruptionNew YorkersCity Government Author:Malachy McCourt
“People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it's not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it's a politician thing.” PeopleThinkingPoliticianRepublicanDemocratComing OutStarving Author:Benjamin Carson
“I wrote "Win" for people on both sides, legitimately on both sides. If you're a Democrat listening to this right now, you - the whole playbook is in this book. If you're a Republican, and you're frustrated because Barack Obama is a great communicator, the playbook is in this book. And if you're a corporation who wants to satisfy his - their employees, how to do it is in this book. And finally, if you're an employee and you want to get a raise, whether at NPR or anyplace else, it's in this book.” PeopleIfsWantBookWholeWinningSidesListeningRepublicanRight NowRaisesDemocratBarackCorporationsEmployeeFrustratedBoth SidesCommunicatorsNprPlaybooks Author:Frank Luntz
“Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the Civil Rights movement. Civil Rights legislation was passed by a Republican Congress.” WayRightsMovementRepublicanDemocratCongressCivil RightsAfrican AmericanLegislationCivil Rights MovementEmancipationProclamationEmancipation Proclamation Author:Rafael Cruz
“I was speaking on the radio in South Texas [in 2016], and I was speaking to Hispanics, and I said 'You know, you probably vote Democrat because your parents always voted Democrat, and your grandparents always voted Democrat, but let me tell you something. Thirty years ago in Texas, there were two parties - liberal Democrats and conservative Democrats. Looking at your principles, your values as Hispanics, in all probability your parents were conservative Democrats. The conservative Democrats of 30 years ago are Republicans today!'” KnowsYearsSaidTwoTodayValuesParentPartyPrinciplesRepublicanYears AgoVoteLet MeDemocratSouthConservativeRadioThirtyTexasGrandparentProbabilityThirty Years Author:Rafael Cruz
“I don't feel burdened, but I do feel a little frustrated. Because I see the problem, and I can see the solution - but there are two strongly different points of view on this - like the Republicans and Democrats.” FeelsLittlesI CanTwoDifferentProblemViewsRepublicanSolutionsDemocratPoint Of ViewFrustratedDifferent Points Of View Author:Donna Karan
“We shouldn't let the Republicans off the hook. Theodore Roosevelt, we learned from Jeff Cowan's new book, was just as bad as certainly [Louis] Brandeis was, or many Democrats were on the question of segregation.” BookRepublicanDemocratHookSegregationNew BooksTheodoreLouis Brandeis Author:Jeffrey Rosen
“The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be able to buy elections.” PeopleShouldBelieveAbleRepublicanIndependentElectionDemocratConservativeCorporationsProgressive Author:Bernie Sanders
“Illegal immigrants are people that have very little education. They are mostly people who are very poor. They arrive needing government assistance from the get-go, and the Democrat Party is right there to provide it, while telling them that the Republican Party wants to kick 'em out.” PeopleWantLittlesGovernmentPoorPartyRepublicanDemocratKicksEmsImmigrantsIllegalRepublican PartyAssistanceIllegal ImmigrantsGovernment Assistance Author:Rush Limbaugh