Jill Stein Quotes

The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the Republican Party.

We went in ... Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats. We came out of it Republicans.

The old battle between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats is now meaningless, not least because the social structures that underlay those parties, the church and the unions, have faded away. Nationalists and populists understood this change earlier; now the rest of the political world needs to understand that the political lines have been redrawn and it's time to change.

The Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party.

We opened the door of the Democratic party, and 30 million Democrats walked out.

You ... have done more than elect a President. You have created a new party that ought to hold power for twenty-five years.

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

We didn't leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left us.

I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.

Mr. [Thomas] Jefferson founded the Democratic Party and President Roosevelt has dumfounded it

In Washington, D.C., in 2006, Democrats had long since given up on the war in Iraq in terms of any tangible political support for it. The new factor was the Republicans were beginning to give up as well, and they were truly challenging the strategy and the lack of success.

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.

The neoconservatives of the 1970s, former liberals who became Nixon or Reagan backers, eventually accepted the 'neocon' description instead of calling themselves 'The Real New Deal Democrats' forever.

The American people gave us a new majority in 2014.

I grew up as a Democrat in a very strong Democratic family, but I will tell you that the Democratic Party that exists in this country is not the Democratic Party I grew up around.

In 1964, the GOP ceased to be the party of Lincoln and became the party of Southern whites.

Every single day, everywhere we went, people were coming up to me and Boyd repeatedly and saying, 'We're life-long Democrats, but we're voting for you. We've never voted for a Republican in our life.'

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

We have to keep this new coalition of Trump voters engaged. And they represent Democrats, more independents, and people who hadn't voted for a long time because they lost their faith in government.

In the wake of a Trump victory, the Democratic Party is tacking to the left in an attempt to harness the populist message that put Trump in the White House.

My father was raised a union Democrat. He cast his first ballot for a Republican in 1980 for Ronald Reagan.

If Bernie Sanders were liberated from the Democratic Party, it might be a whole new ballgame.

Is there's always an idea that the party will continue the movement but that movement always dies inside the Democratic Party.

I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And it has to be a transformation. Not a little tweaking at the edges.

I think it's been time for a new party. I think it's time for two new parties. If you watch the Democratic convention, that has become a socialist party now.