John Avlon Quotes

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

The Democrats complain; I choose to compete.

These days everything is discussed in terms of political partisan perspective including the weather—especially the weather.

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

Michigan has always been a swing state, so we understand that the goal is to have two political parties, debating the issues with empathy and respect.

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

Well, you know, what's so exciting, is that it was a really telling campaign as well. Whenever we start looking at the differences, they could never be more clear.

The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.

According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.

There is a lot of noise and conflict in our political discourse, which is fun to cover, but I'm convinced from my travels that people also thirst for more details as well as insight and context.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.

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

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

I supported Barack Obama. I wasn't very quiet about my support. I thought he was going to be a refreshing change to George Bush. But what has happened is that we have an election that's become a single-issue election, and that issue is Barack Obama. And he's an icon to both sides.

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

I'm not really a Democrat or a Republican, but I don't like rhetoric.

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.

The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination process.

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.