Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucy Powell

I wish that Iraq had not happened - and that we had not lost touch with so many of our natural supporters. But this should have provided an opportunity for the Liberal Democrats as a party. Yet their protest gains are now diminishing.

Sean Smith

I think he can win and will win the Democratic nomination. As a campaign, that is 100 percent of our focus.

It could turn into a Democratic year in New York, which might then have an impact on down-ballot races for Congress.

It didn't work so well for Democrats in '04 though.

Thomas Mann

I think was Harry Truman who said, 'If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic,' ... The idea that somehow a Democratic majority is harmful for the economy strikes me as fanciful. It's financial fiction.

I think voters are repulsed by the floor-crossers who took away their democratic mandate and this is an opportunity to make it right.

Bob Graham

It is not always easy for a Cuban-American to be a vocal Democrat in Miami-Dade County,

It is our firm view that the declaration of this day as a public holiday will enable voters to exercise their democratic right to vote as enshrined in our Constitution.

Pierre Pettigrew

It is important to realize that the process of democratic development will not end on election day.

It is not a coincidence. Sen. Reid is the Democratic leader and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, which puts him in a key position to help Nevada.

Jesse Jackson

I watched all of the Democratic convention. I then stayed up and watched it all again. Enjoyed it just as much the second time.

We're looking forward to having John Samples, a well-rounded candidate, represent the Democratic party in Precinct 4.

Threats of black-listing have no place in Democratic politics. It's a disgusting tactic and it's been done out of pure desperation.

Martin Sheen

What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

Samantha Power

Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he's a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama.

Without Chafee, you're going to get an extremely liberal Democrat in that seat.

I would not exclude any political group as long as it respects the democratic process.

Metro should study the democratic process before they study a way to get around it.

Orrin Hatch

We have one Democrat who was willing to stand up to his own caucus. Let me tell you, that was a big-time thing.

Dick Gephardt

We in the Democratic Party feel strongly that the people in the middle, the people stuck on the bottom, are the people we need to be giving the majority of this tax cut.

Barney Frank

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

The problem with having a state as expensive as New Jersey in play is that it might divert resources from other races. National Democrats would prefer not to spend money in New Jersey. But they may have to if this race gets close.

Republicans spend and borrow, Democrats tax and spend.

Republicans have not been doing their share of registering voters. The Democrats should be congratulated.

We're disappointed in this indecisiveness and lack of leadership from the national Democrats and Sherrod Brown, who said he wouldn't run,

We're disappointed in the outcome, but we're pleased to see a relatively strong Democratic performance in an otherwise staunchly Republican district.

We live in a democratic society, and it's our constitutional right to have equal rights,

We do not wish to be in a position to prescribe for Nepal, and to prescribe for the people of Nepal in what manner they would go about realizing their democratic aspirations.

John Dewey

Cooperation called fraternity in the classic French formula is as much a part of the democratic ideal as is personal initiative. That cultural conditions were allowed to develop (markedly so in the economic phase) which subordinated cooperativeness to liberty and equality serves to explain the decline in the two latter.

John Dewey

The ideal may seem remote of execution, but the democratic ideal of education is a farcical yet tragic delusion except as the ideal more and more dominates our public system of education.

Joe Manchin

There's a lot of Democrats, myself included, who have supported right-to-life.

Social Democrats will never tolerate that. ... What is being said on the right will destroy solidarity. That is our task on September 18. We have to prevent this.