Adlai Stevenson II Quotes

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

The Republicans love the truth, but they hate facts.

If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.

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

One of Mitt Romney’s spokespeople said, “we will not be dictated to by the fact checkers”. What that really means is “we will not be dictated to by the facts.” But the changing demographics is a fact. The Republicans may not compromise with the Democrats, but they are going to have to compromise with reality.

The infamous political ads like Carly Fiorina's 'Demon Sheep' and Christine O'Donnell's 'I Am Not a Witch' are so confusing, it's almost like they were paid for by Democrats.

The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.

The only thing dumber than a Democrat or a Republican is when those pricks work together. You see, in our two-party system, the Democrats are the party of no ideas and the Republicans are the party of bad ideas. It usually goes something like this. A Republican will stand up in Congress and say, 'I've got a really bad idea.' And a Democrat will immediately jump to his feet and declare, 'And I can make it sh*ttier.'

The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle.

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

Liberals are hopping mad because Rush Limbaugh referred to phony soldiers as "phony soldiers." They claim he was accusing all Democrats in the military of being "phony." True, all Democrats in the military are not phony soldiers, but all phony soldiers seem to be Democrats.

A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!

The president has said Republicans want dirty air and dirty water.

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

The Democrats want you to lose your job.

There are more Democratic schmucks than there are Republican ones.

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.

Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low.

Now the Democrats control the Senate. But the good news is that now the Republicans can admit that Strom Thurmond has been dead since 1988.

The Republican Party has bent over backwards not even criticizing Democrats in hopes that people wouldn't think they're what the Democrats say they are, while the Democrats go out and behave that way times ten all the time every day and never get called on it.

I think we have got to call out the Republicans, where their walk doesn't match their talk, and I think we also have to make sure that we communicate clearly that we are the party that cares deeply in our core about working people in this country.

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

Political debate is more interested in manipulating the truth, than finding the truth.