Dick Tuck Quotes

There are but two divisions of party in the United States; and he is a very weak or very presumptuously vain man who can think of organizing a third party that shall rule them both.

I've never been a fan of party politics.

I am the Democratic Party's absolutely worst nightmare. Why is that? Well, you see, I am a black conservative Republican running against one of the most vulnerable Democrats in America in 2016.

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

You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

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

Competition for votes sends parties in a two-party system toward the center.

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.

If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it.... By the turn of the century it'll be a 95 percent white Republican Party and a 99 percent black Democratic Party. That's not what we need.

America doesn’t need a third party; it needs a second one.

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

The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation.

There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between politicians of either major party.

When a third party's demands become popular enough, they are appropriated by one or both of the major parties and the third party disappears. Third parties are like bees: Once they have stung, they die.

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

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

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

As the Republicans run to the crazy Tea Party right, they leave behind the huge mass of genuinely moderate and independent Americans that make up the majority of voters. The ones that used to consider themselves now-extinct moderate Republicans. They're up for grabs. And the Democrats have to grab them!

It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue.

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.

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.

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.