David Brock Quotes

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

As Democrats, when we try to determine who or what allowed Donald Trump to become president, we should look in the mirror.

When Trump was elected, there were three parties in Washington: the Trump party, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

Democrats didn't just lose the 2016 presidential election, they lost seats across the country at every level of government under Obama's tenure in the White House.

The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.

I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.

It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.

I think there's a lot of problems with being a two-party system.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

Normally we would expect more seats in Congress to go to the political party that receives more votes, but the last election confounded expectations. Democrats received 1.4 million more votes for the House of Representatives, yet Republicans won control of the House by a 234 to 201 margin.

Donald Trump could win the presidency without a popular-vote majority only because both parties have been locked into base-turnout strategies that are partially responsible for our government's ineffectiveness and gridlock.

I don't in any way think the American people rejected the Republican Party, or we'd be in a lot worse shape than we are.

Hillary Clinton was rejected soundly by America, but instead of changing course, the Democrats and their media allies are intent on telling Americans just how terrible they are for embracing Donald Trump.

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.

Donald Trump is defeating himself. He is ensuring that Hillary Clinton is elected. I think they would both be absolutely terrible.

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.

The 2000 election exposed some ugly history in our country.

You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.

National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.

Texas is not really a red state - it's just a non-voting state.

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.