Peter Beinart Quotes

In the Democratic party they call the people who lost the last election losers. In the Republican party, we call them the next nominee.

The real fight is within the Republican Party to get it to nominate grassroots-type candidates who the public wants, and not just some 'echo' of the other side.

Joe Biden stands out from other Democratic candidates not just by taking on President Trump directly but also by seeking to separate Trump from the rest of the Republican Party.

In the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, American voters were forced to choose between a liberal Democrat and weak establishment Republicans. Democrats won both times.

What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

I hope I am the Tim Tebow of the Iowa caucuses.

The fight is always the same within the Democratic Party, isn't it? The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The political parties have no role except to stage the conventions, where you celebrate a decision that's already been made elsewhere.

It’s hard to be a front-runner in the Democratic Party. My party tends to destroy front-runners.

Look at those Republican [Presidential Primary Nomination] debates. I feel embarrassed as an American when I hear them orate.

Republicans have the habit of giving their possible presidential candidates a saliva test for purity, and then bitching for 4 years because they lost the last election..

Our American elections have been fought between parties which, roughly, have represented the forces advocating change and those preferring stability.

Politics: a Trojan horse race

During the protracted tooth-and-nail tussle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primaries, I was one of those fierce partisans desperate for the first black candidate with a serious shot at the White House to win the nomination.

The political parties have lost their loyalties.

It was a terrible idea by the Democrats to support Hillary Clinton.

I've been watching and involved in presidential politics since 1960 when I first voted, and the Republican, the conservative candidate in the primary is always going to lean right and come back to the center for the general - the opposite for the Democrat.

The contest between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders offered such a bright and bracing contrast to all those professional wrestlers emerging from the RNC's clown car.

So the result was that as one approached a political convention for most of the 19th century and for most of the 20th century until the 1960's, part of the drama was the fact that you didn't know ultimately who was going to be the nominee at the end of that convention week.

I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.

I chaired the 1982 Democratic Party Commission on Presidential Nominations that created certain automatic delegates to the Democratic convention - the 'superdelegates.' It was a good idea then, and it is still a good idea.

I normally don't endorse in Democratic primaries.

Remember, many Republicans didn't vote for Mitt Romney. He didn't inspire people.

In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.

I'm a registered Democrat.