Hamilton Jordan Quotes

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

Our political system is based on two parties fighting to capture the middle. Unfortunately the Republican party has been captured by conservative extremists.

As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican and Democratic Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views may not reflect the views of most members of their own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote in the November general election. In recent times, each election year has seen each party's nominee selected - or at least subject to veto - by its most extreme wing and then forced to try to move back to the center before the general election. This can only undermine the public's confidence in the integrity of the candidates of both parties.

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

The political system loves the extremes, it doesn't so much show a lot love for the moderates.

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

I've done work for both Democrats and Republicans.

From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

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.

Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government.

By catering ever more abjectly to the noisy, reactionary extremists of our party who are determined to impose their sectarian views and morality on the rest of us, the GOP’s vulnerability among moderate voters, particularly women, continues to intensify.

The special interests drive both parties to their extremes.

Primary season highlights the parties’ debility, reducing them to the role of referee among contenders. Then the winner takes over the party structure, frequently installing new leaders while commandeering party fundraising lists. The nominees function much like new sheriffs who swagger into town and dominate the scene for a dramatic but fleeting moment rather than like local deputies who rise through the system and ­last.

There is no evidence that Republican leaders have been demonstrably dumber than their Democratic counterparts.

If you vote for Democrats, you might as well give Al Quaeda a death ray and a manual.

Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.

I am not a centrist.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

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

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

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