Democrat Quotations

A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.

A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit.

The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about respect for the rule of law!

I'm willing to meet with anyone, Democrat or Republican, who has a good idea, an open mind and a willingness to come together to tackle the challenges we face.

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

Through time and dedication, we will make it okay to be a proud Democrat in the South once again.

I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State.

The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either.

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

Well, look, let me put it this way. Back in 2005, when I was a freshman, I - I was the first Democrat to support CAFTA. My labor union folks made me their number-one target. They came after me, and I'm still here.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot.

Arlen Specter left the GOP because it is a lot easier to win in Pennsylvania as a Democrat than as a Republican. It is that simple. For folks on the Right to brush this off as some sort of 'good purge' is extremely naive.

I'm a liberal Democrat, and I state that proudly.

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.

What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

When I was elected Governor, we had an audacious agenda that naysayers said couldn't be enacted with a Democrat majority in the state legislature. However, we worked across party lines and enacted historic reforms. Working together, we cut taxes by more than $600 million.

Since losing his reelection in 2002, Barr has lost not only his power but also many of his friends. It doesn't help that after alienating nearly every Democrat with impeachment, he spent the next five years alienating his fellow Republicans - railing against the invasion of Iraq, the PATRIOT Act, and the Bush administration in general.

When we were at peace, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now there's a war, so Democrats want to raise taxes. When there was a surplus, Democrats wanted to raise taxes. Now that there is a mild recession, Democrats want to raise taxes.

The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.

It is wrong to believe that Hispanics are Democrats. Hispanics are traditionally and historically conservative, not just socially conservative, but fiscally conservative.

I registered Democrat because my parents did. They were, we were. There was no thinking behind it.

Hell hath no fury like a Democrat scorned.

I'll vote for whoever is the Democrat. That's all I need to know.

What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.

I think too many Democrats are too wimpy. But I think they're beginning to toughen up.

You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

My approach to politics is that I'm not a Democrat or a Republican. I'm an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country.

I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.

Simply because you're a Democrat doesn't mean you can't speak to these issues in language that appeals to voters, particularly independent voters.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm an Independent, but I caucus with the Democrats.

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

I loved Clinton; not as a Democrat, but as a person.

Main Street versus Wall Street was the 2008 economic mantra of Democrat Barack Obama.

People have a right to be a Democrat. People have a right to be wrong. I know they're the same thing.

Every American, whether Democrat or Republican, agrees that job creation and affordable energy will be crucial to our economic turnaround.

What I would ask the Democrat Party is to put your plan on the table, because most people agree with the facts, and the facts are that Social Security is running out of money.

There's a lot of Democrats, myself included, who have supported right-to-life.

The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

My mother was a Democrat - southern Democrat, y'all.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

The American national security state is totally bipartisan. My biggest problem is with the Democrats, like Feinstein and Pelosi, who are defending it because there is a Democrat in the White House, and they are party loyalists and hacks before they are public servants.

Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.

Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

If you're a Democrat and 'The New York Times' is calling for your head, you know it's time for an exit strategy.

We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that's all.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

I don't know if there is a Democrat who necessarily doesn't believe health care is a right instead of privilege. There is a significant between us and the Republican Party on that issue.

The fierce battles between New Democrat centrists and old-style liberals that defined the Democratic Party in the 1990s are long gone, with the party unified behind Barack Obama's economic agenda of universal health care, expensive federal programs and more regulation of the financial markets.

Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn't just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.

Whether you are Republican or Democrat or liberal or conservative, we should never, never, never allow ourselves emotionally to interfere with another person's right to express themselves.

I ran two campaigns for governor in a state that's 2-1 Democrat where I did not mention my opponent in print, radio, or television. I don't know if any other politician at a gubernatorial, congressional, or a senatorial level can make the claim.

I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat.

During the Reagan years, government shut down eight different times under a Democrat Congress. The president and Congress worked together and got things straightened out. Under the Carter years, again a Democrat Congress, the government shut down five times.

What he says is careful and correct. The most important fact is that Rod Smith is the only Democrat in this race who has taken not only one, but two seats from Republicans.

We're going to make it very clear that he's a Democrat who punches back.

I've been a Democrat all my life.

I'm considered a new Democrat, which would be considered moderate.

There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time.

Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats.

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats.

Though they were Liberals they were not democrats; nor yet infidels.

I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life.

The Democrats complain; I choose to compete.

You won't catch Liberal Democrats describing trade unionists as wreckers.

When I campaign with seniors, it's always, 'Are you a Democrat or Republican?' But when I campaign on college campuses, they ask me where I stand on specific issues. I think Millennials are much less interested in conventional labels. One thing that's universal among Millennials is a distinct frustration with Washington, D.C.

Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior.

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Obviously, Sen. Reid would like to see a Democrat get in the race. He thinks Jack would make a good candidate. If he decides to run, he'll have (Reid's) support.

Obviously, Sen. Reid would like to see a Democrat get in the race, ... He thinks Jack would make a good candidate. If he decides to run, he'll have (Reid's) support.

If we're going to vote on extraneous amendments that our Democrat colleagues want to vote on, then I want to vote on amendments that I think will benefit the country,

I don't know of a single senator, Democrat or Republican, who walked away from their meetings saying she belongs on the Supreme Court,

I bet that really did stimulate contributions a lot. The censure resolution, and lack of any other Democrat backing it, really put a lot of Bush-haters onto Feingold.

Cast your vote to restore Britain's reputation on the international stage. Vote Liberal Democrat if, like us, you say never again to an episode like Iraq.

I'll always be an outcast, ... I've been a lifelong Democrat and I was just trying to help them out. I didn't say that they had to agree with me on anything. But they (Democrats) can't get their act together, those schmucks.

I feel very strongly as a partisan Democrat that this will be a major issue in the 2006 election.

I can't imagine any Republican or Democrat who would not want to work with him if he's going to embrace both sides and try to make things work,