“I really do not think there is a serious split between Republicans and Democrats in Congress in how responsive they are to constituents.” ThinkingSeriousRepublicanDemocratCongressSplitsConstituents Author:Ezra G. Levin
“The Republicans had a real advantage over the Democrats for a long time. And the principal advantage they have had is they have concentrated money and concentrated power. And, boy, when it's all concentrated, man, you can organize it, you can use it, you can get out there, you can run those negative ads, you can be effective, you can put money into campaigns.” MenLongRealUseRunningBoysRepublicanLong TimeAdvantageNegativeDemocratCampaignsAdsPrincipalOrganize Author:Elizabeth Warren
“I believe we accomplished a lot of good things while I was in office. We maintained a very good working relationship with both Republicans and Democrats during my tenure. Consequently, we had a very high batting average in dealing with Congress on some very controversial issues. Plus, we kept our nation at peace, we obeyed the law, and we told the truth.” BelieveLawI BelieveNationsIssuesRepublicanOfficeGood ThingsDemocratVery GoodCongressAverageAccomplishedPlusGood WorkControversialBattingTenureControversial Issues Author:Jimmy Carter
“I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.” KnowsHas BeensWishPolicyRepublicanDemocratForeign Policy Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“Republicans in Congress have already taken the initial steps to start repealing the Affordable Care Act. Democrats are hoping to at the very least slow that process down by rallying public support for the health care law.” CareLawProcessStepsSupportTakenRepublicanDemocratCongressHealth CareInitialsAffordableAffordable Care ActRallyingAlready TakenRepealing Author:Rachel Martin
“Donald Trump as the nominee losing was to be the end of the Republican Party. The Democrats were gonna have basically one-party rule for 50 years, and look at what actually has happened. It's practically the reverse.” YearsLooksEndsPartyHappenedTrumpRepublicanLosingDemocratReverseRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Certainly any president - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative - should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.” ShouldMindPresidentRepublicanDemocratConservativeOpen MindKeep An Open MindBriefing Author:Charles Schumer
“Substantively Democrats are much closer to where the American people are than Republicans are.” PeopleRepublicanDemocrat Author:Charles Schumer
“You put the republican members of congress who are up for re-election, and quite candidly, the democrats, because every democratic congressperson ought to be writing, tweeting, and you put them on notice. We are the boss of this government, not the [Donald] Trump.” WritingGovernmentOughtTrumpRepublicanMembersElectionDemocraticDemocratCongressBoss Author:Joe Madison
“I think an increasing number of Republicans are perplexed and actually nervous about Donald Trump and Russia, nervous in the sense that he is gratuitously giving Democrats the national security advantage, that they're standing up for the country.” ThinkingGivingCountryNumbersSecurityTrumpRepublicanAdvantageStandingDemocratRussiaNervousNational SecurityPerplexed Author:Mark Shields
“The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American foreign policy based on the post-World War II institutions that believed in democratic global world, which Russia and the Soviet Union was often seen as hostile to. And most Republicans and Democrats have always basically believed in this world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and maybe Marine Le Pen do not agree with this basic structure of the world.” WorldShouldWarOrderBeliefPolicyThis WorldTrumpRepublicanConcernAgreeInstitutionsStructureUnionsDemocraticDemocratRussiaPostsWar Of The WorldsPensSovietWorld War IiForeign PolicyWorld War ISoviet UnionHostileMarinePutinWorld OrderBipartisanAmerican Foreign Policy Author:David Brooks
“If Democrats vote against everyone sight unseen, then Republicans will vote for everyone sight unseen. However, if Democrats demonstrate that they’re considering each candidate on the merits, they have at least a fighting chance of defeating one or two of Trump’s nominees.” IfsTwoFightingChanceTrumpRepublicanVoteSightDemocratMeritCandidatesConsideringUnseen Author:Kevin Drum
“People used to complain in the 50s and 60s and even in the 70s when I was in school, studying political science, that "if only we could have two political parties that presented a choice, but there were all these liberal Republicans and there were all these southern Democrats who are conservative so people just don't have a clear choice."” PeopleIfsTwoSchoolPoliticalUsedChoicesPartyStudyClearRepublicanDemocratConservativeComplainingSouthernPolitical PartiesPolitical Science Author:William Kristol
“I think it's not just Republicans who would like to see the Senate run differently. I think there are a reasonable number of Democrats as well.” ThinkingWellsRunningNumbersRepublicanDemocratReasonableSenate Author:Mitch McConnell
“I think Bernie Sanders understands better than anyone the chasm that exists between a Democratic - the Democrats and the Republicans when it comes to being there for America's working families, and that's what he's about, and that's what we're about as Democrats.” ThinkingAmericaRepublicanDemocraticDemocratBeing ThereChasms Author:Nancy Pelosi
“We know better than to think that Republicans can win only on the failures of Democrats. It still comes down to a contest of ideas, which is really good news, ladies and gentlemen, because when it's about ideas, the advantage goes to us. Against their dreary backdrop of arrogant bureaucracies, pointless mandates, reckless borrowing, willful retreat from the world and all that progressives have in store for us, the Republican Party stands as a great enduring alternative party.” ThinkingKnowsWorldStillsIdeasWinningPartyRepublicanNewsAdvantageDemocratEndureStoresAlternativesGentlemanArrogantRepublican PartyRetreatBureaucracyContestsGood NewsRecklessPointlessMandatesBorrowingDrearyLadies And GentlemenBackdrop Author:Paul Ryan
“That's true that Sen. Robert Bird was in the Klan and a lot of people were friends of Robert Byrd in the U.S. Senate, Democrats and Republicans.” PeopleRepublicanBirdDemocratSenate Author:David Duke
“[People] didn't vote for me because they thought I was a racist and if you look at my campaign literature it is not much different than a lot of Republican literature and some conservative Democrats in the South.” PeopleIfsLooksDifferentLiteratureRepublicanVoteDemocratSouthConservativeCampaignsRacistVote For Me Author:David Duke
“Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for my signature-piece of legislation in the house which was a bill, actually a bill for true civil rights. That there must be no discrimination against anyone on the basis of race in affirmative-action.” WellsActionRememberHouseRacePiecesRightsRepublicanBasesBillsMajorityDemocratDiscriminationCivil RightsRepresentativesLegislationSignaturesLouisianaAffirmative ActionAffirmativeHouse Of Representatives Author:David Duke
“Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.” RepublicanDemocratEnvironmentalHarmSensitiveAgency Author:David Brooks
“You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.” KnowsHas BeensHumorFunnyPartyKnow HowRepublicanHumorousDemocratAnti Conservative Author:Jackie Kennedy
“I'm pleased that I've balanced budgets. I was on the world of business for 25 years. If you didn't balance your budget, you went out of business. I went into the Olympics that was out of balance, and we got it on balance, and made a success there. I had the chance to be governor of a state. Four years in a row, Democrats and Republicans came together to balance the budget. We cut taxes 19 times and balanced our budget.” IfsWorldYearsMadeStatesTogetherChanceFourCuttingBalanceRepublicanTaxesDemocratBudgetsFour YearsBalancedGovernorsOlympicsBalanced Budget Author:Mitt Romney
“Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back, and will work with good Democrats and good Republicans to do that.” KnowsCountryBrokenRepublicanDemocrat Author:Mitt Romney
“To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of the system is such where it makes it really hard for people to work together.” PeopleHardTogetherAbilityCommonRepublicanRight NowMajorityStructureDemocratWorking TogetherGoverningCommon Ground Author:Barack Obama
“This isn't Republican versus Democrat. This is not right versus left right now. This is not conservative versus populist. This is globalist, America-is-not-first establishment versus those of us who believe America is first. This is an establishment/anti-establishment fight that's going on.” FirstsBelieveAmericaFightingLeftRepublicanRight NowDemocratConservativeEstablishmentVersusPopulist Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Republicans are living in a hermetically sealed Republican universe, just as Democrats are. And so they're responding to their own universe, even if it leads to electoral downfall.” IfsUniverseRepublicanDemocratRespondingDownfall Author:David Brooks
“To [Democrats], government's everything, controlling it, expanding it is everything. And it's not to us [the Republicans]. So they leave nothing to chance. If you reject them, "Well, screw you." They'll find a way to either bollix up what defeated them or just overwhelm the system with what they want anyway by bullying so many people at so frequent a time that people just give up, say, "All right, all right, okay, I'm tired," and the left gets what they want.” PeopleIfsWayWantGivingWellsGovernmentLeftChanceRepublicanGiving UpOkayTiredDemocratRejectsBullyingDefeatedScrewsExpandingI'm TiredJust Give UpScrew You Author:Rush Limbaugh
“When I lived in California, 1984 to '87, it was a Republican state. Sacramento where I lived was 73% Democrat voter registration, when I got there. It was in the sixties when I left. We had amazing success in converting Democrats in Sacramento. But Pete Wilson, Ronald Reagan, all people elected governors and so forth, it's only been with the advent of the 1986 immigration bill that we lost California, if I might say, and now it's just gone so far left they're seriously talking about seceding.” PeopleIfsStatesMightLostLeftTalkingGoneRepublicanBillsDemocratImmigrationCaliforniaVotersGovernorsSixtyWilsonAdventConvertingRegistrationSacramentoVoter Registration Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrat Party is in as much trouble as the Republican Party is for different reasons. But if they have to go back to "taxing the rich," if they have to go back to "gun control," it is a sure sign things are in a state of great disarray. In addition, Mrs. Clinton wants to make abortions totally free for people on Medicaid.” PeopleIfsWantDifferentStatesReasonPartyRichTroubleRepublicanGunClintonDemocratAbortionGun ControlRepublican PartyMedicaidDisarray Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If a Republican came along and suggested free abortions for people on Medicaid, the first person to stand up would be Jesse Jackson and start shouting, "Racism!" And then Al Sharpton wouldn't be as far behind, and they would call it an attempt to eliminate people of color by the dastardly, rascally Republicans. But yet Hillary Clinton is proposing it and is being feted, praised to the heavens for such a compassionate plan. The Democrats are wiping out their own people. That's why they need open borders for replacements to be brought in ASAP.” PeopleIfsNeedsFirstsPersonsWould BeHeavenBehindsPlansColorRepublicanRacismClintonDemocratBordersAbortionAlsCompassionateShoutingFirst PersonReplacementsMedicaidWiping Out Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Here's Hillary Clinton getting away with tying the Republicans to rich people. She's tying the Republican Party to Wall Street, to the big banks. She's tying the Republican Party to the financial crisis in 2008. It's all their fault. She's tying herself as with the low-income crowd - and the average, ordinary middle class American - as their champion, as their defender. They don't know that it's not the Republicans in bed with banks. They don't know that it's the banks that are practically paying for and underwriting the Democrat Party and Hillary Clinton today.” PeopleKnowsBigsTodayPartyClassRichStreetsMiddleWallRepublicanBedLowsOrdinaryCrisisFaultsClintonDemocratFinancialAverageCrowdsIncomeChampionMiddle ClassGet AwayRepublican PartyRich PeopleDefendersFinancial CrisisLow Income Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Democrats and progressives do well when the voter turnout is high. Republicans do well when the voter turnout is low.” WellsRepublicanLowsDemocratVotersVoter Turnout Author:Bernie Sanders
“69 percent of the people want our politicians to work together. And I think this should be a message to Democrats and Republicans to work together. And this is why people are very upset about Washington today.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldTodayTogetherPoliticianRepublicanMessagesPercentDemocratUpsetWorking Together Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I think this is exactly where the action is, is in the middle. I have seen it when I was governor of the state of California. I have seen it firsthand, that the only way we brought Democrats and Republicans together, we could really solve very important issues. I remember that's how we really started rebuilding California and invested $60 billion in infrastructure.” ThinkingWayImportantStatesActionTogetherRememberIssuesMiddleRepublicanDemocratSolveBillionsCaliforniaGovernorsInfrastructureRebuildingImportant Issues Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“I was very, very concerned about President Obama and how much executive order and how much executive power he tried to exert. But I think I want to be, and I think congress will be, a check on any executive, Republican or Democrat, that tries to grasp too much power. And really, a lot of the fault is not only presidents trying to take too much power, it's Congress giving up too much power.” ThinkingWantGivingTryingOrderPresidentToo MuchRepublicanGiving UpConcernedFaultsDemocratCongressChecksExecutivesPresident ObamaExecutive PowerToo Much PowerExecutive Orders Author:Rand Paul
“Basically, global capitalism, basically to support it, or is it to be opposed? Is international order to be supported, or is it to be opposed? Republicans have taken a very clear line. Democrats can have a different version of the line, or they can just say, no, we are the party of international peace and activism, and we're the party that's going to have a civilized capitalism.” DifferentOrderLinesPartySupportTakenClearRepublicanCapitalismDemocratInternationalActivismVersionsCivilizedInternational PeaceJust Say No Author:David Brooks
“Folks, some of these town halls are clearly organized. But, regardless, there are potential warning signs that Republicans perhaps shouldn`t ignore.We heard Democrats dismiss this anger at their town halls back it 2009 as, oh, that`s right, AstroTurf movements. And then, they lost the House in a big way.” WayBigsHouseLostHeardMovementRepublicanTownsDemocratFolksOrganizedHallsWarningWarning Signs Author:Chuck Todd
“The Republican establishment, the Democrat establishment agree and accept that the media is an equal player in the ruling class. Trump has blown all of that out the window. As such, the normal ways that people in politics are controlled, the normal way that people are contained - the ways people are promoted, punished, destroyed, what have you - are all out the window where Trump is concerned. And therefore the media is considered by the ruling class to be one of the great leveling factors.” PeopleWayAcceptingClassPlayerMediaTrumpRepublicanEqualNormalConcernedWindowAgreeDemocratFactorsDestroyedControlledEstablishmentRuling Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Trump has his own audience, which is in many cases as big as or bigger than the media covering him. He doesn't need the media. He enjoys them being around. He likes toying with them. He likes being provocative around them. To him, the media is a plaything. To the Republican and Democrat establishments, the media holds coequal position in the entire power structure of the ruling class.” NeedsBigsEnjoyClassCasesAudienceMediaPositionTrumpRepublicanBiggerStructureDemocratLikesEstablishmentRulingCoveringProvocative Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrats have lost a thousand electoral seats in America in midterm elections, 2010, 2014. The people of this country are clearly willing to vote against Democrats. They are clearly willing to vote for Republicans. But when you get to the presidential election, it better be somebody that's not just part of the establishment. That's the message, and that's what they're not getting.” PeopleCountryAmericaLostWillingRepublicanThousandMessagesVoteElectionDemocratPresidentialSeatsEstablishmentPresidential ElectionMidtermsMidterm Elections Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Most of Trump's support is not the conservative base. It's all over the spectrum. He's got support from women, Hispanics, blue-collar Democrats, the old Reagan Democrats. The demographic support that Trump has is what the Republican Party claims it wants. Meanwhile, the Republican Party is running around saying they want to win the nomination without the conservative base, without the pro-lifers, without the social issues crowd. Well, that's Trump.” WantWellsRunningWinningSocialPartySupportIssuesTrumpRepublicanClaimsBlueDemocratConservativeCrowdsWant MeRepublican PartySocial IssuesSpectrumCollarsDemographicsNominationsBlue Collar Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Trump is popular, Trump is big precisely because Republican voters are angry at establishment Republicans. And establishment Republicans keep giving these people reason to be mad by continuing to insult them, and by appearing to agree with Democrats on key issues a majority of Americans disagree with, from amnesty to whatever, economics, Obamacare, take your pick.” PeopleGivingReasonBigsIssuesKeysTrumpRepublicanPicksEconomicsAgreeAngryMadMajorityDemocratInsultVotersDisagreeEstablishmentContinuingObamacareAppearingAmnesty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“You have people talk about the media as a coequal branch when talking about Republicans. "You know, Republicans have to overcome the media, and then the Democrats." Wait a minute. Why should anybody have to overcome the media?” PeopleKnowsShouldWaitingTalkingMinutesMediaRepublicanOvercomingDemocratBranches Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The media traditionally is simply an arm of the Democrat Party that is used in service of advancing the Democrat Party agenda, and the Republicans haven't come up with a way of having a more engaging, entertaining story because the Republican story is never anything other than, "We don't want Democrat X to have what he wants."” WayWantStoriesUsedPartyMediaHavensArmsRepublicanDemocratCome UpAgendasEntertainingEngagingAdvancing Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I'm just saying, there may be ways unlocking this deadlock here in the way the media covers people, Republicans and Democrats, and there may be a way for Republican to change it around. Trump may be showing how it's done, but I run great risks in saying that.” PeopleWayMayDoneRunningRiskMediaTrumpRepublicanDemocratJust SayingGreat RiskUnlocking Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The laws of spiritual physics will not allow you to lead somebody that you don't love, that you don't care about, that you resent, that you look down on. That's why the Republicans can't lead black people. And that's why Democrats increasingly can't lead these straight, white, male demons that we hate so much.” PeopleLooksCareSpiritualLawHateBlackWhiteRepublicanDemocratMalesDon't CarePhysicsDemonBlack PeopleResent Author:Van Jones
“[Former chief executives] come away thinking that America needs a strong, functioning presidency to succeed, and they become very protective of that office. Democrats and Republicans alike are willing to put aside their own party's self-interest to preserve the presidency. That's been true over the decades.” ThinkingNeedsSelfAmericaStrongInterestPartyWillingRepublicanSucceedOfficeDemocratDecadesChiefsFormerPreservesExecutivesPresidencySelf InterestProtectiveChief Executives Author:Nancy Gibbs
“Whether we're talking about what the role of the government is, what you think of the United Nations, political leaders or how to respond to [Hurricane] Katrina and whether it had anything to do with race, across a wide variety of issues we see differences between mainstream black and white American opinion that dwarfs anything in American public opinion, period. Democrat versus Republican, men versus women, conservative versus liberal, the black/white divide is the biggest, one of the biggest in the world, and certainly the largest gap in the United States.” ThinkingMenWorldStatesGovernmentPoliticalNationsBlackDifferencesWhiteUnitedRaceTalkingLeaderOpinionRolesUnited StatesIssuesPeriodsRepublicanDemocratConservativeWideVarietyGapsDividesMainstreamBlack And WhiteVersusUnited NationsPublic OpinionHurricanesPolitical LeadersDwarfsKatrinaBlack WhiteHurricane Katrina Author:Michael C Dawson
“I'm sure I could fall in love with a Democrat as easily as a Republican. Some things transcend politics.” FallRepublicanDemocratFalling In Love Author:Jeff Gannon
“If there's one thing I've learned in the last 18+ years of interacting with over 60,000 people during my vegan lecture tour, it's that everyone is the same, whether they are Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, atheist, Republican, Democrat, independent, socialist, fascist, black, white, Asian, Latino, Native, pro-life, pro-choice, pro-gun or anti-gun.” PeopleIfsYearsChristianLastsChoicesBlackWhiteOne ThingRepublicanGunIndependentDemocratAtheistBuddhistI've LearnedNativeVeganSocialistAsianLecturesLatinoFascistsPro LifeInteractingPro GunThings I've LearnedBlack WhiteAnti Gun Author:Gary Yourofsky