Alvan E. Bovay Quotes

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

The Democrats fought with the conservatives. The Republicans fought with the liberals. The Bull Moosers fought with everybody.

I'm not cool with ACORN or the working families' party, or people that vote like democrats and run on Republican lines.

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

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

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

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.

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

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.

Republicans are the party of the rich. The Democrats are the party of the people.

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.

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

I’ve searched my conscience about leaving the Republican Party, and I decided it was better to change parties than to change my principles.

In time the Democratic party will fade away and we will have a capitalistic party and a socialistic party.

The Republicans make a pastime of trashing the 1st Amendment while the Democrats pastime is trashing the 2nd Amendment.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

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.

I was ashamed to call myself a Republican during that period.

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.

Historically, tobacco control was not a partisan issue in American politics. Neither major party favored it. Republicans were sympathetic to corporate interests and Democrats were dominant in states where tobacco was grown and manufactured. However, beginning in the late 1960s Republicans began replacing Democrats in the South … and that liberated the Democrats to be the party of tobacco opposition.

A lot of us were wondering, what is Trump really going to be like? He used to support Democrats and have various views earlier in his life about politics.

Kentucky has long been Democratic at the state level but that trend had completely reversed in the Trump era.

The Democratic Party has become the party of the coastal elite, and the Republican Party is the party of the working class and that average American citizen who's been struggling over the past eight years with Obama in the White House.