Al Sharpton Quotes

As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

Of course there are different forms of conservatism. I would say just analytically that the Republican Party is more thoroughly conservative and the Democratic Party is more thoroughly liberal today than has been the case for most of modern history.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.

I just am a Democrat. I could never, never be a Republican.

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

I’ve searched my conscience about leaving the Republican Party, and I decided it was better to change parties than to change my principles.

Republicans didn’t lose their majority. We lost our way.

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

I was a Republican until they lost their minds.

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.

If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic.

My parents were Democrats, and I was a Democrat. And John Wayne was a Republican.

Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.