Richard Trumka Quotes

I'm a Democrat, but I'm really bipartisan - some people might say nonpartisan.

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

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

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

I believe I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans. Am I either one? Absolutely not. Ladies and gentlemen, I am an American.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

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

I don’t chose my friends and associates on the basis of political party. The Senate has become altogether too nasty.

It’s very hard for any one person to embrace every single aspect of any one party.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

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

Political parties are no longer ideological. They are social markers and cultural identifies for people who want to see where they belong.

I've never been a fan of party politics.

People used to complain in the 50s and 60s and even in the 70s when I was in school, studying political science, that "if only we could have two political parties that presented a choice, but there were all these liberal Republicans and there were all these southern Democrats who are conservative so people just don't have a clear choice."

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time.

The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States.

It's not like Massachusetts, where they're baptized Democrats.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

The most biased people are the Democrats.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.

Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.