Thomas Chatterton Williams Quotes

Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.

The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a kind of a real demographic corner, if you will.

The American political system is so porous, it's so open, it's so frustrating for those who are trying to make policy.

The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'

The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

Republicans have bypassed black leaders in favor of their handpicked “independent thinkers,” who are distrusted by Black voters.

There is nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics…

Republican Party hasn't been black friendly over the many centuries in this country.

I can't go out with a Republican.

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

Negative politics have always been around.

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

Everywhere I go - from Main Street to Wall Street - people ask, 'What's happened to our political system? Why can't Washington folks work together?'

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

I believe both parties are sending the wrong kind of people to Washington, D.C.

Politics disgusts me.

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

The way to help this country is to limit Republican power.

There aren’t any independents anymore.

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.