Democrat Quotes - Page 14

• I will not be a Democrat or a Republican. They are the problem, not the solution. We need to abolish political parties in this country.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Party, Political

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, www.newsbusters.org. April 4, 2011.

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• Democrats are so spineless, so afraid to go against the tide... but dissension is the greatest form of patriotism.

  Jesse Ventura

  Tides, Form, Spineless

  "Jesse Ventura Challenges Hannity On Waterboarding: “I’ll Get Him To Say Obama Is The Greatest President” By Marcus Baram, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 22, 2009.

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• I think that Minnesota is different because we are proving that tri-partisan government could work, that you do not need to necessarily be a Democrat or a Republican to be successful at governing.

  Jesse Ventura

  Successful, Thinking, Government

  "Interview: Jesse Ventura biography". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• The thing is, and Americans are starting to realize this now, that while street gangs are violent, the Democrats and Republicans are worse. They are worse because their decisions affect your life.

  Jesse Ventura

  Decision, Realizing, Republican

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• Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of changed that moniker. I think what we have is a nation of worried families - families that are concerned about job security, families who thought their pensions were secure and now have questions.

  Tom Vilsack

  Jobs, Thinking, Worried

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• I've often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they - and they're fearful, they're fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.

  Scott Walker

  Hate, Thinking, Office

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• Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

  J. C. Watts

  Believe, Government, Numbers

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• You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.

  J. C. Watts

  White, People, Black

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• In 1989 when I switched from Democrat to Republican, with God as my witness, not one thing changed about what I believed about one man and one woman in a marriage or about diversity of color. That's a good thing.

  J. C. Watts

  Men, Color, Diversity

  "J.C. Watts: Bringing Diversity and Faith to Washington". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have no clear plan to strengthen our economy, as Republicans do.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Recovery, Successful, Reform

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• His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an ad noting that in Congress he opposed the Reagan budget cuts. He says that because Bill Bradley was one of 36 Democratic Senators who voted for the cuts. Gore doesn’t point out that Bradley also voted against the popular Reagan tax cuts and that it was the tax cuts that piled up those enormous deficits, a snowballing national debt.

  Bruce Morton

  Cutting, Debt, Bills

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• We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.

  Barack Obama

  Political, News, Hawaii

  "Obama Answers Birthers By Showing His Certificate". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. April 27, 2011.

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• Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

  Jill Lepore

  Choices, Republican, Late

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• Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

  Charles Evers

  Running, Country, Strong

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• I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Believe, People, Political

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• What Democrats call 'nuanced,' most people refer to as 'stupidity.'

  Evan Sayet

  Stupid, People, Stupidity

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• The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Leadership, Women, Independent

  Phyllis Schlafly (1967). “Safe--not sorry”, Pere Marquette Pr

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• I will use whatever position I have in order to root out hypocrisy. Democrats have strong moral values. Frankly, my moral values are offended by some of the things I hear on programs like "Rush Limbaugh," and we don't have to put up with that.

  Howard Dean

  Strong, Roots, Order

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• ...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Perfect, Insanity

  Christian Science bk. 1, ch. 5 (1907)

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• There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Funny, Humorous, Party

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• You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, Order, America

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• Democrats believe that government should reflect the sense of community that Americans demonstrated after Katrina - the sense of community that has defined and united America throughout its history.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Believe, Government, America

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• The reason the Democrats are so intent on passing a stem-cell bill is they're depending on the research to grow themselves a spine.

  Will Durst

  Cells, Research, Bills

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• We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.

  Horace Greeley

  Simple, Thinking, Names

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• Democrats, independents, Republicans, all of us Americans who love our country. What a wonderful time to come together and really just count our blessings. And to remember those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for us and for this country and all those freedoms we love.

  Robert Hurt

  Country, Sacrifice, Blessing

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