Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Carson

The fact that our government is using instruments of government like the IRS to punish its opponents, this is not the kind of thing that is a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is an American issue... A lot of people do not feel free to express themselves.

I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State.

Richard Daley

We as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone.

Luis Gutierrez

We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.

Lee R. Raymond

A free economy is as essential to society as democratic political institutions. A strong market-based economy is the fertile ground for democratic freedoms that we think are important.

Bob Ehrlich

Maryland has a tradition of Democratic Party conservatism.

Noam Chomsky

Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies.

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

Ali Babacan

Those looking from Europe see Turkey as an economic success, whereas others from the Middle East see Turkey as a democratic success.

A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.

Bayard Rustin

The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.

Abdolkarim Soroush

One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

Nancy Gibbs

Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.

The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.

Andrew Cuomo

Whether you voted for me or not, going through the Democratic process had made me a better candidate. I am a smarter, better candidate.

Alan Greenspan

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

Sarah Steelman

There are as many Democrats that are guilty as Republicans and their spending habits. And the fact is, is that Washington is just broken.

Karl Rove

Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.

Dannel Malloy

Democrats tend to think of elections as cycles. Republicans don't: It's ongoing and constant.

Dana Rohrabacher

January 30th will be a historic day for the Middle East and the world. The Iraqi people will take the next step toward a free and democratic society as they place their votes for a transitional Iraqi government.

Timothy Noah

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

Clay Shirky

The web's democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the political ramifications have to do with that one word having so many meanings. So, it's democratic in that it quite literally delivers power to the people; it, it essentially opens up participation in the public's mind.

Dick Cheney

We Democrats will expand the prosperity. They will squander it.

Roseanne Barr

There is no real third party in America. There's this one party that has two sides to it - the Democratic and Republican side. It's one party that has two heads.

Monica Crowley

The Democrats handle dissent by isolating it, smearing it and delegitimizing it in order to crush it.

The Democrats are driving by the accident, and they're looking out the window wondering what's going on.

David Blunkett

The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.

Luis Gonzalez

The democratic process has passed the hardest test of all. The people of Paraguay have triumphed!

Bill Richardson

The Democratic Party is back. This is a good omen for 2006 and 2008,

The Democratic Party has long thought that its success is dependent on some support in the South.

Bruce Rauner

I've completely lost faith in the Democratic Party to truly serve the disadvantaged.

Pork is the inevitable feature of the democratic process.

Charles Kennedy

Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively.