Melissa Etheridge Quotes

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

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

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

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

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.

The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.

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

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.

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

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

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

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

We don't like to deal with people who are trying to kill the revolution. You need to hire a Republican!

There can be but two great political parties in this country.

We have reached the point where politicians aren’t supposed to be political and the parties aren’t supposed to debate issues.

In truth, the parties of Whig [Liberal] and Tory [Conservative] are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names, or by those of Aristocrats and Democrats, Cote Droite and Cote Gauche, Ultras and Radicals, Serviles, and Liberals.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is like the difference between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummer.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Trump and Bernie Sanders are different sides of the same coin.