Lewis Black Quotes

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

What bothers me the most are the Republicans and the Democrats: they act like little kids. They are lying to real people out here trying to get through life.

The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas.

That's not saying there's not a bunch of good Democrats. I'm sure there's a lot of people who still haven't figured that out yet or simply don't want to have that pessimistic of an outlook, but I think the Democratic Party is completely worthless.

The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.

We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

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

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.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

The Republicans make a pastime of trashing the 1st Amendment while the Democrats pastime is trashing the 2nd Amendment.

Republicans hate government ... So they let us Democrats run it for them.

We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists

In America you've got a one party state except that you've got two of them.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

If anything, the Democrats' salvation may lie in the fact that Republicans seem even more hell-bent on allowing their radical wing to drag the party away from the center.

You talk about leading Republicans. That's no easy task on just like you were trying to lead Democrats on the other side. We all have independent thoughts and independent ideas.

In America today, unfortunately, the right wing has been totally commandeered by the Tea Party, and it's a bad thing for our party.

People are sick of the false choice between the established political parties who take voters for granted.

There is very little chance of the modern Republican Party putting the national interest above their own partisan interests.

[Barack Obama] needs to really engage both Republicans and Democrats.

All of these years I've been doing my program I was under the impression the Republican Party wanted to beat Democrats. And as the years have gone by, it's become obvious to me that that's not their number one objective.

There may not be much difference between Democrats and Republicans anymore.

Republicans are horrible with civil liberties, and not so good with dollars and cents. Democrats are horrible with dollars and cents, and not so good with civil liberties.

If you look back at the 1960's in the United States, and if you think that more good was done than harm, you are probably a Democrat. If you think that more harm was done than good, then you're probably a Republican.