Democratic Party Quotes - Page 2

• The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

  Glenn Danzig

  Party, People, Trying

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• Follow the money, Washington reporters like to say. The money is this case comes from taxpayers, present and future, who are the source of every penny of dues paid to public employee unions, who in turn spend much of that money on politics, almost all of it for Democrats. In effect, public employee unions are a mechanism by which every taxpayer is forced to fund the Democratic Party.

  Michael Barone

  Party, Unions, Pennies

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• Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Politics Today, Answers

  Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, on February 18, 1958. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: Profiles in Courage Quotations", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

  Harry S. Truman

  Kissing, Men, People

  Letter to his sister, 14 Nov. 1947, in Off the Record: the Private Papers of Harry S. Truman (1980) p. 119

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• But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

  Charles Schumer

  Party, Eye, Thinking

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• The Democratic Party needs to look carefully at moving towards the middle, where the American people are.

  John Dingell

  Party, Moving, People

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• We need to remake the Democratic party. We need to remake America.

  Al Gore

  Party, America, Needs

  "Al Gore endorses Howard Dean". "Wolf Blitzer Reports", cnn.com. December 09, 2003.

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• Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Responsibility, Past

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.

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• I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Party, Wings, Two

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• The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

  Richard J. Daley

  Party, Political, Politics

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• No poll can equal the day-to-day visits of the men and women of the Democratic Party.

  Richard J. Daley

  Party, Men, Political

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• I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Hymns, Political

  Address to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, delivered 12 September 1960 at the Rice Hotel in Houston, TX

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• The next time your daughter asks, 'Where are all the men?' Tell them that the Democratic party and its policies got rid of them'

  Dennis Prager

  Daughter, Party, Men

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• [On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble; crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Party, Squids, Goal

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• The Democratic Party is the - was the largest and most powerful institution supporting slavery in the English-speaking world. And it is the only one that has survived to the 21st century!

  Sean Hannity

  Powerful, Party, World

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The Democratic Party might be called the Takings Coalition, made up of groups that want the government to take from American citizens -- usually cash -- and keep it for itself.

  Grover Norquist

  Party, Government, Groups

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• You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

  Jim DeMint

  Party, Government, Order

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• Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Class, Ordinary

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• We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

  Barbara Jordan

  Party, Made, Backgrounds

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect

  Roy Jenkins

  Party, Class, Roots

  Roy Jenkins (1972). “What Matters Now. -”, Harper San Francisco

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• I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Wings, Politics

  Paul Wellstone (2001). “The Conscience of a Liberal: Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda”, p.226, Random House

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• In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

  Barbara Jordan

  Party, People, Giving

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.

  Bobby Darin

  Running, Party, Hymns

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• I am a former Kleagie of the Klu Klux Klan in Raleigh County and adjoining counties of the state, having been appainted to this office [by] Mr. J. L. Baskin of Arlington, Virginia, in 1942... It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the union.

  Robert Byrd

  Virginia, Order, Ku Klux Klan

  "McGovern Would Oppose Byrd; Rules Out ‘a Racist’ for Court" by Fred P. Graham, www.nytimes.com. October 12, 1971.

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• I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Party, Cold

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