Thomas Jefferson Quotes

Despite our differences, I know that both Republicans and Democrats love America.

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them.... In every country these two parties exist.... Call them, therefore, liberals and serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, republicans and federalists, aristocrats and democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same party still and pursue the same object.

We have called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans; we are all Federalists.

Democrats and Republicans alike are citizens. Equal patriotism is in each

Our two-party system has served us well over the years, but never better than in those times of great challenge when we came together not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans united in a common cause.

How to Turn Democrats & Republicans Into Americans

But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. We have been called by different names brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

I can't go out with a Republican.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

The appellation of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all [political] parties.

He loved politicians—even Republicans

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

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

I've never been a fan of party politics.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

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

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

I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

The young man who is moved in any way to contemplate an entry into public life … learns first of all to understand that there are two great political organizations, with one of which he must associate himself, learning and echoing its catch-words, accepting its leadership, and steeping himself in the belief that in it are wisdom and truth while the other party is void of both

We have reached the point where politicians aren’t supposed to be political and the parties aren’t supposed to debate issues.

I was never a Democrat but there are some Republicans who think I ought to be.