Thomas Frank Quotes

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

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

I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them.... In every country these two parties exist.... Call them, therefore, liberals and serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, republicans and federalists, aristocrats and democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same party still and pursue the same object.

The complex origins of class cleavage in politics are not easily unraveled

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

I don't really go into labels or an in-depth discussion of different value systems because for me, it's sort of the truth of the situation in D.C. Certainly, in my fictional depiction of it, there are decent, shameless people on both sides at every level.

I said that liberals think people who live in the middle of the country are a bunch of jerks, and obviously all liberals don't think that. But I will tell you what, an awful lot of liberal elites think that.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

A French Republican is a Republican who beats up on conservatives and is constantly praising the Democrats and contributing to the massive spending in this country while they go home and pretend otherwise.

Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.

Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.

There is no such thing as several Romanias, but only politicians who divide Romania depending on the interests of their parties and their clout.

My husband is a Democrat, and I am a Republican, so our political ambitions are on opposite ends.

Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy.

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

Men have differed in opinion and been divided into parties by these opinions from the first origin of societies, and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time.