Cenk Uygur Quotes

The Tea Party has won. There simply isn’t that much difference between the establishment Republicans anymore, and if grassroots chalengers are loosing more races, it’s because they’ve succeeded in yanking the party far enough to the right that there isn’t any more space for them to fill.

It is my hope that the establishment part of the Democratic Party will heed what the grass roots is saying.

Someone like Bernie Sanders can be in office for 30 years, but he's not the establishment.

There is no greater threat to Washington, D.C., than Bernie Sanders, and they know it.

Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.

The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

Many of my supporters, they want to change the system, and they are not in favor of the establishment.

One of the remarkable things about Donald Trump is that he didn't just beat the Progressive establishment - he also beat the Conservative establishment. Two political tribes that dominated Washington for half a century were defeated in the space of one election campaign.

The Democratic Party has become the party of Bernie Sanders, I mean they are the progressives. That's who control.

They knocked out Bernie [Sanders] as they would have knocked him out, like [Barack] Obama if he came into office. So I don't think the Democratic Party is going to solve it for us.

Left-leaning bloggers have had a tremendous impact on the Democratic Party.

Roy Blunt is another white guy in a suit, and I think the public wants change. There's a good old boys' network out there that's hard to penetrate... and it's not always in the best interest of the party or for conservative principles.

The fact is that the Democratic Party in modern times has always had a conservative wing, one frequently as strong or stronger than its liberal wing, and as such, when progressives speak of the party as a vehicle that naturally belongs to them, as if by right - until conservatives stole it from them - they weaken progressivism.

It’s hard to be a front-runner in the Democratic Party. My party tends to destroy front-runners.

The special interests drive both parties to their extremes.

Washington is corporate occupied territory …. The two parties are fighting it out to see who will take orders from their corporate paymasters.

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans

Republicans, Weed Out Your Progressives

I see particular commonalities in the rise of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

The Establishment on both the Left and the Right, who want to disenfranchise the millions of Republican voters who support Donald Trump, have blamed the staged riots near Trump rallies on Trump or on Bernie Sanders. That's like blaming the Russians for the Reichstag Fire.

I am inclined to believe that it would be easier to build a new party than to save the Democratic Party from itself.

There is a growing global anti-establishment revolt against the permanent political class at home and the global elites that influence them, which impacts everyone from Lubbock, Texas, to London, England.

The tea party movement has challenged the GOP to get back on track or risk losing its grip on the right wing. It's reminded Democrats that a slick marketing campaign coupled with paid activism isn't the same as a groundswell of real change, and the reason that Democrats are so hostile towards it is because they've never before encountered it.

The Trump phenomenon might feel both interminable and unprecedented to Republican elites, but of course it isn't.