Chuck Todd Quotes

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

The Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party.

The Democrats are now an upscale party.

I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side of the Republican Party by saying that it's not the majority, that it's not their focus, when everything suggests just the opposite.

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.

It's not like Massachusetts, where they're baptized Democrats.

This is just not the Democratic Party we used to know.

So what we - all we really want, I think, from the so-called Democratic wing of the Democratic Party is really to stand up for what we believe in.

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.

Canadians haven't always seen themselves in our party.

I have been a Democrat ever since I registered to vote, and I'll stay a Democrat, but that's because of what the Democratic Party was supposed to be.

I think, I want to see a Republican Party that has more folks that, that look and sound and operate like I do.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

There are party leaders, big corporation, Wall Street. There are very wealthy individuals who kind of represent where the Democratic Party, the official Democratic Party was and to some extent still is.

I don't know how you change that. There's hardly anybody left like me in the Democratic Party in Congress. These districts have been so gerrymandered that, in most of them, a Democrat can't win. Somebody like me trying to start off today, he'd never get endorsed. Because I'm too conservative.

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.

There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

I didn't leave the Republican Party. It left me.

The Republican Party is no longer the Republican Party.

I have no problem if you want to be a socialist. But for those people who are in the middle, you know, I don't know if you're really welcome in the Democratic Party, and I don't even know who the Republican Party is anymore. I have absolutely no idea.

The Democrat Party today is not enamored of Bill Clinton. They may not even be enamored of Hillary [Clinton]. But the things that jazzed Democrats back in the nineties are nowhere near the things that jazz the Democrats of today.

The Democratic Party will live and continue to receive the support of the majority of Americans just so long as it remains a liberal party.

[Nancy] Pelosi personifies this [Democratic] party's repudiation.