Bob Ehrlich Quotes

Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.

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

A lot of people think I'm crazy, you know, leaving a Democratic supermajority state to go to the superminority in Congress.

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

The biggest challenge I have with Washingtonians is they think Illinois is exclusively a Democratic state.

I believe in the two-party system.

Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.

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

It's not like Massachusetts, where they're baptized Democrats.

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 aren’t any independents anymore.

Look, there is no question the Hollywood crowd predominantly supports Democrats. But within Los Angeles, there's a big community, and there's a large community of support for the Republican party and Republican candidates.

I never voted for a Democrat at the state or national level.

I think the post-Rick-Perry Texas is a Texas that is more competitive between the Democrats and Republicans. I think the Republicans still have a huge advantage, but I think if we're arguing that competition is good for the system, then I think a stronger two-party system in Texas is inevitable, and I think that it will happen.

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

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

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

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.

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.

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

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.