Joe Scarborough Quotes

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

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.

We have this civil war at home between our own version of Shiites and Sunnis called Republicans and Democrats…

Republicans paint everything that Democrats have been for as socialism, too far to the left, as extreme, and it didn't matter how moderated it was; it didn't matter that Obamacare started out as a compromise. You might as well say what you're actually for and show what you really are.

I think the Right did us a service calling Obama a socialist for eight years. It inoculated us.

The Democratic Party has become the party of the coastal elite, and the Republican Party is the party of the working class and that average American citizen who's been struggling over the past eight years with Obama in the White House.

What we ended up with, from Bill Clinton onward, is a status quo party and an 'undo the system' party, where the Democrats became the status quo party and the Republicans became the 'undo the system' party.

I represented everything Democrats loathed.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines.

Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. 'I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves,' he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one.

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies.

Texas Democrats should be more concerned about what President Obama is doing to destroy the party, and the nation, than about what I am doing in going after him for that.

The most biased people are the Democrats.

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

Republicans, say Democrats, are too simplistic about what ails America, and their solutions are straight out of 'J.A.G.'

The Democrats are as much a part of the war machine as the Republicans. We can't let Democrats get off the hook because they're Democrats.

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

Nobody should be surprised that Republicans vote for Republican policy. Just like Democrats vote for Democrat policy.

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing to use to take down the president's. We're dealing with the power of suggestion here.

It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.