Mike Pence Quotes

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.

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.

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them.... In every country these two parties exist.... Call them, therefore, liberals and serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, republicans and federalists, aristocrats and democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same party still and pursue the same object.

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

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

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

Nobody should be surprised that Republicans vote for Republican policy. Just like Democrats vote for Democrat policy.

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

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

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

The Democratic Party eats its young before the election, and then they weep and wail when they lose.

The term Party is applied equally to the peaceful parties of America and to the Communist Party of Russia, the Nazi Party of Germany, and the Fascist Party of Italy. The methodology of these parties varies, but their fundamental objective-to place and keep their leaders in control of the government - is the same.

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

We went in ... Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats. We came out of it Republicans.

In those days the Communists talked like Democrats … We got along well enough until the Nazi-Stalin Pact …. Then my leftist associates started laying off Hitler and started ranting about the “imperialist war.”

This election isn't about race; it's about the direction of the [Democratic] party. They say, "You're not supporting the party nominee." I endorsed Daley twice over Republican opponents. He didn't endorse me once. This is about reciprocal voting and mutual support.

We elect Democrats to Congress to give us stuff. We elect Republicans to the White House so that we don't have to pay for it.

Because, Bill, I think we’ve given the South away to the Republican party for as long as anyone can foresee.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

I was never a Democrat but there are some Republicans who think I ought to be.

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.

Can old dogs learn new tricks? …. Issue positions among partisans tend to be relatively stable… Party position changes tend to come not from learning new tricks but from electing new dogs.

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans