Democrat Quotes

The Republican Party makes even its young men seem old; the Democratic Party makes even its old men seem young.

Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

We have watched in silence as the Democratic Party has relied on fomenting anger among Americans for its victories. The more that blacks are angry at whites, the more they vote Democrat. The more that Jews fear Christians, the more they vote Democrat. And the more women distrust men, the more they vote Democrat… in […]

If I understand this global-warming business correctly, the danger is that the waters will rise and drown the whole of Massachusetts, New York City, Long Island, the California coast and a few big cities on the Great Lakes, in other words, every Democratic enclave will be wiped out leaving only the solid Republican heartland. Politically […]

I am a Democrat, which was nothing I decided for myself but simply the way I was brought up, starting with the idea of Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, which is the basis of the simple social compact. Republicans are determined to cripple that same social compact by cutting […]

I didn’t desert the Democratic party; the Democratic party deserted me.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly.

This is an important election – in many ways as important as any this century – and I think that the Democratic Party and the Liberal Party here in New York, and those who believe in progress all over the United States, should be associated with us in this great effort. The reason that Woodrow […]

We’ve heard a great deal about Republican “fat cats,” and how the Republicans are the party of big contributions. I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a “fat cat” and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a “public-spirited philanthropist.”

When a leader is in the Democratic party he’s a boss; when he’s in the Republican party he’s a leader.