Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes

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

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

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

There can be but two great political parties in this country.

Nearly from the founding we have had a democracy organized by two parties with wide wingspans, It’s often confusing to people why folks of different ideologies, different economic classes, racial and ethnic communities join under a particular political party.

To abolish all distinctions of party may not be practicable, perhaps not desirable, in a free government

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.

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.

In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.

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

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

It's nice to say let's be bipartisan. But we're a partisan nation. We were raised as a partisan nation.

The most biased people are the Democrats.

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

I do not support the third party movement anymore. I now advocate the abolishment of all political parties. We've allowed the parties to take over the government.

I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

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.

I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

There aren’t any independents anymore.

Politics is not like a teeter totter. Just because one party goes down, it does not mean that they other party goes up.

There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great political parties, each arranged under its leader and converting measures in opposition to each other.

It appears that there have been differences of opinion and party differences, from the first establishment of government to the present day, and on the same question which now divides our own country; that these will continue through all future time; that every one takes his side in favor of the many, or of the few, according to his constitution