Democrat Quotes - Page 17

• I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them.

  Mark Twain

  Hate, People, Justice

  Mark Twain (1960). “Mark Twain and the Government”

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• A petition to have Justin Bieber deported got over 100,000 signatures, which means the White House now has to legally rule on it. So finally a chance for Obama to issue an executive order that both Republicans and Democrats can agree on.

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Order, White

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• Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat.

  Lance Armstrong

  Cancer, Care, Republican

  "Cancer: Lance Armstrong promotes $1 cigarette tax" by Carla Marinucci, www.sfgate.com. February 28, 2011.

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• I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

  Malcolm X

  Republican, Enough, Knows

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Detroit Version)". Malcolm X's speech at a meeting sponsored by the Congress for Racial Equality in Detroit, Michigan, April 12, 1964.

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• In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.

  Anne Rice

  Christian, Gay, Names

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Jul 28, 2010

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• All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and supporters of aristocracy with excellence.

  Aristotle

  Men, Excellence, Aristocracy

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• Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others. ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down.

  George McGovern

  Mean, Compassion, People

  "What It Means to Be a Democrat". Book by George McGovern, www.politico.com. 2011.

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• According to federal reports filed yesterday, the Obama campaign spent more money than they raised in the month of May. They spent more money than they raised? Well, that's called being a Democrat

  Jay Leno

  Yesterday, Campaigns, May

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• The Constitution has been eviscerated while Democrats have stood by with nary a whimper. It is a gutless, unprincipled party, bought and paid for by the same interests that buy and pay for the Republican Party.

  Rocky Anderson

  Party, Pay, Constitution

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• I always stand out by the voting lines on Election Day, and I can't tell you how many people say, 'I've never voted for a Democrat in my life, but I'm splitting my ticket for you.' They're more engaged and thoughtful than we give them credit for.

  Wendy Davis

  Thoughtful, People, Giving

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• In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere.Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions.

  Marianne Williamson

  Party, Farewell, People

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• Democrats are calling Christine O'Donnell 'the Sarah Palin of the East.' Really? She's a loud, emotionally unstable woman from Delaware. That's not Sarah Palin, that's Joe Biden.

  Craig Ferguson

  East, Calling, Biden

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• Rush Limbaugh says if the health care bill passes, he will leave the country. The Democrats are upset, because if they knew that, they would have passed the bill years ago.

  Craig Ferguson

  Country, Years, Upset

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• Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming industry.

  Mark McKinnon

  Gun, Hollywood, Republican

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• The sad reality is that all the well-meaning groups and individuals who challenge our permanent war economy and the doctrine of preemptive war, who care about sustainable energy, fight for civil liberties and want corporate malfeasance to end, were once again suckered by the Democratic Party. They were had. It is not a new story. The Democrats have been doing this to us since Bill Clinton. It is the same old merry-go-round, only with Obama branding.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Party, Fighting

  "The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress". Book by Chris Hedges, 2013.

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• Any well-established village in New England or the northern Middle West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

  D. W Brogan

  Atheist, Atheism, Village

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• The revolution is an amalgam of former Party functionaries, quasi- democrats, KGB officers, and black-market wheeler-dealers, who are standing in power now and have represented a dirty hybrid unseen in world history

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Party, Dirty, Kgb

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• We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.

  Emperor Norton

  Wish, President, United States

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• He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

  Sandy Berger

  Wmd, Mass Destruction, Iraq

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• We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

  Carl Levin

  Mean, Wmds In Iraq, Mass Destruction

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• We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country.

  Al Gore

  Country, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  Gore speech, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 23, 2002.

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• He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years, every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity. This he has refused to do.

  Henry Waxman

  Past, Wmd, Mass Destruction

  "Letters to the Editor". thetimes-tribune.com. May 23, 2010.

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• We allow folks to divide us. I don't like this Republican/Democrat, left/right, radical/not radical division that is created by folks, particularly and unfortunately in the media. What happened to being a self-reliant, God-fearing American, that loved freedom and the constitution? That's the way I want to be labeled.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Self, Media

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• We've got some Democrats who are actually Tea Partiers right now. We need to build coalitions with them.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Insightful, Tea

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• I make it a policy every election to only debate once, Democrats and Progressives. And I will say that the way that you have acted, very candidly, has been dishonorable in this entire campaign.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Insightful, Insane

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