Democrat Quotes - Page 34

• I'm a pro-life, pro-gun Louisiana Democrat.

  Charlie Melancon

  Gun, Pro Life, Louisiana

  "Melancon Tacks Positive In New Ad: ‘I’m A Pro-Life, Pro-Gun Louisiana Democrat’" by Jason Linkins, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2010.

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• If you try to make the Democrats be what they are not, and never will be, you will end up being more like what the Democrats actually are.

  Bob Avakian

  Trying, Ends, Be You

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• I registered Democrat because my parents did. They were, we were. There was no thinking behind it.

  Susana Martinez

  Thinking, Parent, Behinds

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• When I first registered to vote I registered as a Democrat.

  Susana Martinez

  Firsts, Vote

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• Before I ran for District Attorney, two Republicans invited my husband and me to lunch. And I knew a party-switch was exactly what they wanted. So, I told Chuck, we'll be polite, enjoy a free lunch and then say goodbye. But we talked about issues - they never used the words Republican, or Democrat, conservative or liberal. We talked about many issues, like welfare - is it a way of life, or a hand-up? Talked about the size of government - how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, "I'll be damned, we're Republicans."

  Susana Martinez

  Goodbye, Husband, Party

  Susana Martinez's speech at the Republican National Convention, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who are merely walking about. All democrats object to men being disqualified by accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by accident of death. Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Father, Mean, Men

  'Orthodoxy' (1908) ch. 4

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• Conferences are just like the poor and the Democrats, they will always be with us.

  Will Rogers

  Government, Poor, Conferences

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.110, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Complaining, Nerves, Disease

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• When the San Francisco Democrats treat foreign affairs as an afterthought, as they did, they behaved less like a dove or a hawk than like an ostrich - convinced it could shut out the world by hiding its head in the sand.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Ostriches, San Francisco, World

  Jeane J. Kirkpatrick (2018). “Legitimacy and Force: State Papers and Current Perspectives: Volume 1: Political and Moral Dimensions”, p.594, Routledge

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• [The Democrats] will say that the Reagan administrtion has given benefits to the rich at the expense of the poor - a term that they define broadly to include middle-income people, women, minorities, the aged, the young, farmers, steelworkers, and others.

  Herbert Stein

  People, Income, Minorities

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• You can never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to wet their finger and hold it in the wind.

  Ronald Reagan

  Wind, Underestimate, Fingers

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• Join the Republican party if you cannot abide Democrats. You will probably loathe Republicans just as much, but there are fewer of them.

  Anthony

  Party, Republican, Fewer

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• Democrats, you know, want to identify with and relate to what you're feeling, what you've been bummed out about, where your head is at.

  Martin Nolan

  Feelings, Want, Bummed Out

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• 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.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Character, Feet, People

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• What I am really interested in is that I want people to be thinking in other ways - to stop thinking they have to remain glued to a system that has failed and to ideas about society that's necessarily about being run by Democrats or Republicans.

  Alice Walker

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: inamerica.blogs.cnn.com

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• Don't vote for Republicans or Democrats until they clean up the open system of bribery that we live under.

  Bill Maher

  Vote, Republican, Clean

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't have time to put up with the politics. Who's a Democrat? Who's a Republican? Who's liberal? Who's conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That's what I'm concerned about.

  Charles Barkley

  Daughter, Jobs, School

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• Democrats are afraid of polls. Republicans aren`t afraid of polls. Republicans make polls. Democrats run from polls.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Republican, Polls

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• I grew up in Detroit. I grew up in an environment where you were supposed to be Democrat, where they told you that Republicans were evil people and that they were racist.

  Benjamin Carson

  Evil People, Racist, Detroit

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. I'm Methodist. I have grievances with both parties.

  Joseph Lowery

  Party, Republican, Methodists

  "Rev. Joseph Lowery, Author Ron Christie on 'FNS'". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 13, 2006.

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• I don't absolve the Democrats of their lack of commitment to deal with poverty. But nowadays we're witnessing the widening of the gap. There's something wrong when a handful of people have more than they'll ever need while millions of people have less than they always need.

  Joseph Lowery

  Commitment, People, Needs

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• I never thought about myself as an activist when we were coming along. I wasn't a joiner. You know, I love the people I love. I didn't care whether - they could be a Democrat, Republican, communist, you know, and anything but a racist.

  Ruby Dee

  People, Racist, Care

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [My son] Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, Son, Idols

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• Lost in much of the national debate about immigration reform is how Democrats ultimately stand to gain electorally with any legislation or executive action that would put the newly legalized residents on a path to voting.

  Aaron Klein

  Voting, Immigration, Reform

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• Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.

  Aaron Klein

  Ebola, Long, Republican

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