Puck Magazine Quotes

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

I am so out of sympathy with what seems to be the prevailing currents of American opinion that I keep my judgment suspended as regards the political wisdom of certain [Republican] party moves

I've never been a fan of party politics.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

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

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

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

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

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

The young man who is moved in any way to contemplate an entry into public life … learns first of all to understand that there are two great political organizations, with one of which he must associate himself, learning and echoing its catch-words, accepting its leadership, and steeping himself in the belief that in it are wisdom and truth while the other party is void of both

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.

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.

I was ashamed to call myself a Republican during that period.

Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line

The liberals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the instruments of Satan to destroy the former great principles of these two political parties.

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

Public opinion can become polarized into a bimodal distribution with only a few people in the center and many more lying toward the extremes. But under such circumstances, democracy will probably break down …

We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists

I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.

I can't go out with a Republican.