Loretta Sanchez Quotes

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

I've been a Democrat all my life.

I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever actually met a Republican before.

Since joining the U.S. House of Representatives in November of 2006, I have strongly supported Speaker Nancy Pelosi. I have the utmost respect for her, and I believe the Democrats were able to accomplish a great deal under her leadership.

I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

My view is, Democrat, Republican, it doesn't matter, my view is I'm in Washington to try to work with people.

Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.

For Democrats, nothing is any less complex than a 'West Wing' episode.

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

I want to thank the people of Texas for asking me to represent them in Washington.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

The way I see it, I'm not going to Washington to be the 60th Democratic senator. I'm going to Washington to be the second senator from the state of Minnesota.

I'm honored to have served for 18 years as Arizona's 10th Senator - and for four terms in the House of Representatives before that.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

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

President Bush said that he wanted to change the tone in Washington. He has; it has gotten worse.

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

My family [old-line Nebraska Republicans] can't figure out which is worse, being a Democrat or being an attorney.

I don't belong to an organized political party. I'm a Democrat.

I don't enjoy politics. I like to get things done, and I like Republicans and Democrats, and that doesn't always work well.

I was elected by the good people of Fort George for another five-year term, and I certainly intend to continue serving them in this, my seventh term as a member of the House of Representatives.