Democrat Quotes - Page 9

• Hillary Clinton, [Democrats] say, leads the popular vote by two million, and a shift of a few votes in a few states would have won the election.

  Steve Inskeep

  Popular Vote, Two, Election

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Mark] Lilla sees a deeper problem, and he wrote an article in The New York Times denouncing identity liberalism.He says liberals have appealed to African-Americans or women or the LGBT community but failed to craft a strong, broad national message. He's not the only person saying this. Long before the votes were cast, Bernie Sanders argued the Democrats lost the white working class by not speaking broadly to the country.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Strong, New York

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm just imagining some of [Mark Lilla] fellow liberals being rather angry at you saying such a thing [that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital ].

  Steve Inskeep

  Political, Lost, Mark

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Democrats have simply lost the country.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Lost

  Source: www.npr.org

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• [Democrats] have lost the capacity to speak to the vast middle of America, an America that is, in large part, white, very religious and not highly educated.

  Steve Inskeep

  Religious, White, America

  Source: www.npr.org

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• To take one example, I mean, the whole issue of bathrooms and gender - in this particular election, when the stakes were so high, the fact that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital on this issue that frightened people. People were misinformed about certain things, but it was really a question of where young people would be going to the bathroom and where they would be in lockers.

  Steve Inskeep

  Mean, Issues, People

  Source: www.npr.org

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• So [Republicans] packed all the Democrats into districts, very Democratic districts. What that's done is made our party urban, more liberal, and so those people are doing what their constituents want. But that's not what my constituents want.

  Collin Peterson

  Party, People, Done

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I don't know how you change that. There's hardly anybody left like me in the Democratic Party in Congress. These districts have been so gerrymandered that, in most of them, a Democrat can't win. Somebody like me trying to start off today, he'd never get endorsed. Because I'm too conservative.

  Collin Peterson

  Party, Winning, Trying

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Pushing gun control drives people [in my district] crazy, gay marriage, abortion, deficit spending.All of that stuff adds up to be a problem for Democrats.

  Collin Peterson

  Crazy, Gay, Gun

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We [Democrats] have become a party of assembling all these different groups, the women's caucus and the black caucus and the Hispanic caucus and the lesbian-gay-transgender caucus and so forth, and that doesn't relate to people out in rural America.

  Collin Peterson

  Party, Gay, America

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Try to un-gerrymander these districts so that you're not packing all the Democrats into one district, so you've got districts that are competitive, so that you've got a shot at electing Democrats. But that's more a long-term proposition, if it can even be done.

  Collin Peterson

  Long, Trying, Done

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There's no question about it. If you look at the map, there's hardly any [Democrats representing rural districts]. There's me, [Rick] Nolan, [Tim] Walz, [Dave] Loebsack and Cheri Bustos. So that's five. And all the rest of them are in urban cities. That's a problem.

  Collin Peterson

  Cities, Looks, Maps

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If everybody in our caucus had a 50/50 [Democrat/Republican] district, we'd have a lot different discussion. But if they have a 90 percent Democratic district, they don't ever talk to a Republican, they don't have to and they don't want to.

  Collin Peterson

  Different, Want, Republican

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.

  Moby

  Vietnam, Way, Election

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We've - we heard a lot from state secretaries of state and other elections officials from all states in the nation, both Democrat and Republican. Before Election Day, we heard for weeks concern about the election being rigged or the election being hacked.

  Audie Cornish

  Election, Republican, Week

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Newt Gingrich gave voice to something that was said throughout this campaign from Democrats and Republicans.

  Chuck Todd

  Voice, Campaigns, Republican

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Here's the real thing. Democrats got to understand that the first line in the Republican playbook is going to be smear, you know? And there's nobody who's going to be able to avoid it.

  Keith Ellison

  Real, Lines, Able

  "Rep. Keith Ellison On Why He Deserves To Be DNC Chairman". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. November 30, 2016.

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• The democrats are a coastal party.

  Chuck Todd

  Party, Coastal

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Democrats don't sound united.

  Susan Davis

  Sound, United

  "House Democrats Re-Elect Nancy Pelosi As Minority Leader". Press Conference, gpbnews.org. November 30, 2016.

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• The political future for Democrats is daunting.

  Susan Davis

  Political

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Democrats don't have a lot of time to turn the party around.

  Susan Davis

  Party, Turns

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Now, the Clinton campaign, you must understand something about the Clintons, and it's true of [Barack] Obama, and it's true of most Democrats. They are always in campaign mode. Even after they win elections, they stay in campaign mode in terms of how they reach people.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, People, Campaigns

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Now the roles have been reversed, because the Hillary [Clinton] campaign is livid that they lost, and they think they lost because [Donald] Trump sent out bird whistles, dog whistles, whatever, to the white supremacists out there, and the white supremacists are the ones that came out of the shadows, not the illegal immigrants, the white supremacists came out of the shadows and they got their hoses and they got their whatever else and they started beating up on Democrats and poor Hillary.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Dog, Thinking, White

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Everybody was telling [the Democrats], the media, everybody telling them they're gonna win in a landslide, [Donald] Trump's a buffoon, look at his campaign staff, a bunch of nobody's and know-nothings. Looks at his supporters, a bunch of white supremacist goombahs. They're in utter denial.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Winning, Media, White

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The more people that are out of work, the better for the Democrat Party. I know you might snicker at that, but it's the damn truth.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, People, Might

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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