“I don't really try to get involved politically by giving money to politicians or by saying I'm a Democrat or Republican. Right now, I just view myself as an American.” GivingTryingViewsInvolvedPoliticianRepublicanRight NowDemocratGet InvolvedGiving Money Author:David Rubenstein
“The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.” PeopleNeedsReasonEvilRealizingRepublicanRight NowDemocratPatientCompromiseDefeatedModeratesBe PatientGoverning Author:Barack Obama
“Over the last few years a lot of people have become aware of the inequities in the criminal justice system, right now, with our overall crime rate and incarceration rate both falling, we're at a moment when some good people in both parties, Republicans and Democrats and folks all across the country, are coming up with ideas to make the system work smarter and better.” PeopleYearsIdeasCountryMomentsLastsFallJusticePartyCrimeRepublicanRight NowDemocratRateFolksCriminalsGood PeopleSmarterJustice SystemCriminal JusticeIncarcerationCriminal Justice SystemCrime Rates Author:Barack Obama
“If you have to fight an enemy at a critical point in time, and you have an ally who happens to be a dictator, you don't say: Let's stop fighting right now, because you're not a democrat. That would be ridiculous.” IfsHappensWould BeFightingEnemyRight NowDemocratCriticalRidiculousAlliesDictator Author:Natan Sharansky
“They say there are something like 12 million illegal immigrants in the country right now, with another half a million coming every year. Remember in the last election when the Democrats claimed there was two Americas? Turns out one of them was Mexico.” YearsTwoCountryLastsRememberTurnsHalfMillionsRight NowElectionDemocratImmigrantsIllegalMexicoIllegal Immigrants Author:Jay Leno
“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
“Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now.They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was no humor in Cleveland. And they are not making this a Donald Trump.” IfsTwoSelfBrainWrittenTrumpRight NowSmartDemocratTwo ThingsClevelandSelf DeprecatingSelf Deprecating HumorBrain Dead Author:Mark Shields
“The public is really not kept abreast, and our leaders are not clear and forthright about what the terms of engagement are right now - that we really have no choice except to undertake a wartime scale mobilization, but a mobilization knowing that we can actually fix this. It's only a disaster if we continue to plunge headlong into the problem, which is only accelerating in spite of everything that the Democrats have been willing to say and do about it.” IfsHas BeensProblemChoicesTermLeaderKnowingClearWillingRight NowDemocratDisasterScalesSpiteEngagementPlungeWartimeMobilization Author:Jill Stein
“What matters now, the only thing that matters right now is that whatever you think of the conservative movement and whoever you think is or isn't one, no matter who you think they are, they cannot unify around the concept of beating a Democrat. That's what you have to learn. If that's the movement you want to be part of, then you have at it.” IfsThinkingWantMatterMovementRight NowConceptsDemocratConservativeWhat MattersThings That MatterOnly Thing That Matters Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity of people's lives right now.” PeopleIfsThinkingAbleSuccessfulRight NowDemocratComplexityBeing SuccessfulCapture Author:Barack Obama
“Right now what my job is, and I think the job of Democrats and Republicans, is to protect the middle class and working families of this country from some devastating ideas that [Donald] Trump has proposed.” ThinkingIdeasCountryJobsClassMiddleTrumpRepublicanRight NowProtectDemocratMiddle Class Author:John Lewis
“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
“The anger on the left - I've never seen anything like it. I mean, they're right now opposing everything. Democrats in the Senate are filibustering absolutely everything.” MeanLeftRight NowDemocratSenateOpposing Author:Ted Cruz
“The Democrats right now are living in an alternative universe.” UniverseRight NowDemocratAlternatives Author:Ted Cruz
“I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.” NeedsYearsWellsHas BeensLastsPartyEnvironmentIndustryRepublicanRight NowDemocratPhasesRepublican PartyCoal Author:Ted Turner