Chicago Journal of Commerce Quotes

There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between politicians of either major party.

There are but two divisions of party in the United States; and he is a very weak or very presumptuously vain man who can think of organizing a third party that shall rule them both.

I certainly won't vote for Hillary Clinton, but I cannot and will not vote for Donald Trump.

It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.

We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas.

I'm not a Republican, and I'm not a Democrat.

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

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

The most biased people are the Democrats.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

The American people do not care which Party solves the problems confronting our nation.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

A friend of mine at the American Enterprise Institute says there are two parties: the silly party and the stupid party. I'm too old for the silly party, so I had to join the stupid party.

I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.

Nobody who ever runs for President should be the leader of a party.

Competition for votes sends parties in a two-party system toward the center.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and are right.

There aren’t any independents anymore.

Republicans are the party of the rich. The Democrats are the party of the people.

Politics is not like a teeter totter. Just because one party goes down, it does not mean that they other party goes up.

There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great political parties, each arranged under its leader and converting measures in opposition to each other.

Important issues do not always split along party lines.

We have created our own monster. The three P's. Platforms, Primaries and PACs. The combination of all this reform [allows] the ideological activists of both parties to dominate the [presidential] nomination.