Jeff Greenfield Quotes

The Democratic Party eats its young before the election, and then they weep and wail when they lose.

Oh, man. I think if anybody deserves to be inducted into the Hall of Pain, it's Donald Trump.

What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

As members of Congress, we take an oath to uphold the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the United States, not the Republican or Democratic party. I have been willing to stand up to my own leadership when it's in the national interest.

I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.

I am ashamed of some of Democrats in my own party.

The Democrats never fight about who is more like Jimmy Carter.

You know, let me be very clear. I supported Barack Obama originally.

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

I think President Clinton has been a great leader, but I don’t want my daughter near him.

Nobody who ever runs for President should be the leader of a party.

I am in favor of General Taylor as the Whig candidate for the Presidency because I am satisfied that we can elect him, that he will give us a Whig administration and that we cannot elect any other Whig.

One of the reasons that I did not win reelection, was that I was unable to hold the Democratic Party together.

I honestly don't know how John Allen can look at himself in the mirror and say why he supports Hillary Clinton.

If I'm not the Democratic nominee, I'm gonna get out there and work for whoever the Democratic nominee is, because I believe they will be better than the alternative.

Obama destroyed this party, folks, literally has destroyed the Democratic Party while elevating himself to whatever heights, if he's really achieved them, I still don't believe it, but I'll go along with the flow for now.

Pundits are saying that President Obama is starting to lose support among his own party. To give you an idea of how bad it's gotten, today Jimmy Carter compared him to Jimmy Carter.

We can't win - if we nominate someone - if we nominate someone that half of the Republican Party hates, we're going to be fighting against each other all the way to November [of 2016]. We will never win that way.

Democrats are just as divided as Republicans these days. Embarrassed by their election losses, they are fighting over everything from their diagnosis of why Trump beat them in 2016 to how much to stake themselves on an oust-him-at-all-costs strategy now. Their internal battles may not be as sexy as the unprecedented hostile takeover of the GOP by an outsider president not beholden to it - yet they are just as consequential.

Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession.

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.

I think Hillary Clinton has a lot of lee way to go, either direction, and to probably most likely try to fudge it and get both parts of the party into talking points.

I care deeply about Democratic party and our agenda and making sure that we can continue to build on President [Barack] Obama's legacy. So any suggestion that I am doing anything other than manage this primary impartially and neutrally is ludicrous.

We support Hillary [Clinton]. We're saying that strongly. "I'm with her," I don't think that we can be any less strident. She's the best person for the job.