Tony Blankley Quotes

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

No candidate dares to look for a new campaign model that could really enhance the democratic process. Instead we are left with the current one which makes our candidates look like hucksters.

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

There is constantly a war going on between the two parties for the populist vote. The populist vote is always the swing vote.

Politics in America is moving from representative politics to interactive politics.

American democracy is a unique form of government which at the same time requires [political] competition and cooperation.

You should be strenuous in seeing as many people as possible every day of every possible class and order, for from the mere numbers of these you can make a guess of the amount of support you will get on the balloting

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them.

In a political struggle, never get personal—else the dagger digs too deep.

… every international bloc, every State or indeed every community has enemies and opponents that seek to eliminate it, and, as the conflict becomes violent, each party tries to undermine the reputation of the other by attributing to it repulsive epithets, such as "anarchist", "criminal", "outlaw", "inhuman", "terrorist", and the like.

It is very easy to have elections. It is very difficult to consolidate political order.

Presidential nomination debates have turned into mud wrestling instead of expositions of the candidates’ views.

Our American elections have been fought between parties which, roughly, have represented the forces advocating change and those preferring stability.

The Republicans definitely want to fight. They are just not sure what they want to fight about.

Parties perform, to some degree, at least three functions in a democratic government. They recruit candidates, mobilize voters, and assemble power within the formal government.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

I like having a battleground district because I think that's real-life America.

Every time you work on a political campaign, half the people hate you. That's how it is.

Whether you're Democrat or Republican... you want everybody who's eligible to vote to vote, and that's how you want to win elections.

In presidential elections, I think people focus way too much on ideology.

We will do well when young people, when working-class people come out. We do not do well when the voter turnout is not large. We did not do as good a job as I had wanted to bring out a large turnout.

I really want to get the word out to people to register because of course, the more people vote, the more our democracy works.

We do have some people that have never voted before.