DEMOCRAT QUOTES II

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We Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else.

ANN RICHARDS

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I think it is much easier to be a good member of the Church and a Democrat than a good member of the Church and a Republican.

HARRY REID

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A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imaginative, tolerant of dissent, and skillful at the game of give-and-take. A gathering of Republicans is more respectable, sober, purposeful, and businesslike than a gathering of Democrats; it is also likely to be more self-righteous, pompous, cut-and-dried, and just plain boring.

CLINTON ROSSITER

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At the tail end of the Reagan years the Democratic Party, with the aid of Clinton/Gore-led groups like the Democratic Leadership Council, presented us with a new kind of "business-friendly" Democrat, one who voted the right way on choice and minority rights but was "willing to work with business" on such matters as free trade, deregulation, privatization, government spending, and personal debt. Such a Democrat, we were told, could win: we'd be giving up a thing or two in terms of workers' rights and other matters, but at least Roe v. Wade would be safe for now.

MATT TAIBBI

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Democrats suck at coming up with catchy propaganda slogans, because they don't think like Nazis.

OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY

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My mother was a Democrat-- southern Democrat, y'all.

NANCY REAGAN

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I will admit it has rained more under Republican administrations, that was partially because they have had more administrations than Democrats. There is no less sickness, no less earthquakes, no less progress, no less inventions, no less morality, no less Christianity under one than the other. They are all the same. It won't make 50 cents difference to a one of you. Unless you're foolish enough to bet on it.

WILL ROGERS

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I think that the Democratic Party and progressives generally have gotten confused in getting trapped in this debate about are you liberal or are you centrist? I'm not interested in being a centrist or rushing to the middle, in the sense of just splitting the difference with a radically ideological Bush administration. And that's how I think we got into trouble in many instances, was we just kept on splitting the difference until you find out you don't stand for anything, you just keep on compromising.

BARACK OBAMA

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The Democratic Convention is $27 million in debt. They had to cancel the kick-off event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. A speedway is the perfect place for the Democratic Convention. You go around in circles, turn left every few seconds, and you end up right where you started.

JAY LENO

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So is there a difference between Democrats and Republicans? Sure. The Democrats say one thing ("Save the planet!") and then do another--quietly holding hands behind the scenes with the bastards who make this world a dirtier, meaner place. The Republicans just come right out and give the bastards a corner office in the West Wing. That's the difference.

MICHAEL MOORE

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Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.

GARRISON KEILLOR

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I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends ... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

ADLAI STEVENSON

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Democrats ... can't seem to get anything done even when they control both houses of Congress, the presidency, and Bruce Springsteen.

BILL MAHER

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The Democratic Party, whatever that is, lacks a vision or an ideology ... that is because it is a conglomeration of mutually exclusive parts. It contains a large part of the American working class, which has suffered greatly since the Great Recession began. But it also contains a lot of Wall Street people and well-to-do people, and new technologists. What policies is going to unite these people? It's hard to find a unifying theme among them, other than they don't want the Republicans in power. Now, that often gets you fairly far, but it doesn't allow you to govern very effectively.

ERIC FONER

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Politically, Republicans and Democrats are at opposite ends. One’s a burp and the other’s a fart.

JAROD KINTZ

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Republicans are like herding sheep and Democrats are like herding cats. For extremist minorities to change the Democratic Party, they can't divide and conquer, as the Tea Party did. They must build winning coalitions from the inside. That is, necessity prohibits them from being too extreme.

JOHN STOEHR

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Mr. President, you've got to buy some democrats. The good news is they come cheap.

LINDSEY GRAHAM

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The Democratic Party, while no paragon of civic virtue, is more ideologically centered and diverse, protective of the government's role as it developed over the course of the last century, open to incremental changes in policy fashioned through bargaining with the Republicans, and less disposed to or adept at take-no-prisoners conflict between the parties.

THOMAS E. MANN

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Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray.

JOSEPH C. WILSON

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The southern Democrats are in the saddle and the northern Democrats must tag along as best they may, no matter what ill may betide.

JOHN JACOB ROGERS

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