Alphonso Jackson Quotes

The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

Republicans need to stop complaining about blacks voting over 90% for Democrats. If they're not willing to compete in those neighborhoods, they will keep losing those voters.

The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

What I see is that the Democratic Party takes working class communities for granted, they take people of color for granted, and they just assume that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping these proposals are.

The reality is, our problem isn't that more people are voting Republican than Democrat - our problem is most people who would vote Democrat aren't voting.

The black vote is always important, and the reason is it serves as a tremendous base for the Democratic Party. On the national level, Democrats traditionally receive at least 90 percent of the black vote.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

There's an old rule of thumb in politics that 90 percent of all 90 year-olds vote and 25 percent of all 25 year-olds vote.

You can't say the Negro left the Republican Party; the Negro feels he was evicted from the Republican Party.

The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans.

The Negro has not only come into the Democratic Party, but the Negro has come into control of the Democratic Party.

The poor don't vote all the time.

The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections.

From the standpoint of democratic legitimacy, it's a problem if half the electorate, or close to it, declines to vote, not least because they may not feel much of a stake in the whole process.

Most African-Americans really do believe that we are voting for our better interest in voting for Democrats.

Blacks as a group have voted Democratic since the 1930s. The GOP has not courted them in any real way since the 1960s, focusing instead on attracting white constituencies hostile to civil rights and African-Americans in general.

It was white people who got Trump into office.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.

If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.

Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.... By the turn of the century it'll be a 95 percent white Republican Party and a 99 percent black Democratic Party. That's not what we need.

It's too bad that such crowds can't be turned out in the United States.

Half the Democrats in Congress get elected by running for Civil Rights and the other half gets elected by running against Civil Rights.