Norman Thomas Quotes

The special interests drive both parties to their extremes.

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

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

Definition of Moron: What the Republicans would call George W. Bush if he were the Democratic President

If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic.

I am inclined to believe that it would be easier to build a new party than to save the Democratic Party from itself.

Growing up in the 1980s, I remember when the GOP was the party of ideas. Now it's brain dead.

Both parties act in their political self-interest. Indeed, that's the purpose of a political party. But unlike Democrats, at least Republicans are honest about it.

Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

Democrats believe they can win at the ballot box by obstructing, and they would rather win the next election than move America forward.

The American people are sick and tired of this 'lesser evil' garbage they get fed every election year. Both the Democrats and the Republicans do the same evils once they're in office.

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 decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side.

People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms.

I never heard the word 'compromise' used. So I'm starting to believe that these terms only come into play to try and force Republicans to do what the Democrats want.

The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.

We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job some Republican wants.

The people who vote in the primaries are at the ideological edge of their party.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is like the difference between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummer.

I suppose we could say of Gen. Cameron that he is not Democrat enough to hurt him.

Republicans lobby; Democrats march.