Top 100 Democrat Quotes

#1. I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#2. I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

Elizabeth Emken

#3. If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.

Mona Sahlin

#4. I am running for president as a Democrat. And if elected, not only do I hope to bring forth a major change in national priorities, but let me be frank, I do want to see major changes in the Democratic Party.

Bernie Sanders

#5. Why did God make so many dumb fools and Democrats?

William Powell

#6. Whether you're a Democrat or Republican, if your standard-bearer for the presidency is not doing well, it's gonna reflect on the down-ballot.

Tommy Thompson

#7. Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are god. A dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat and, many times, neither can I.

Charles Bukowski

#8. I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause he's not down for the struggle. He does not have that in his roots.

Rush Limbaugh

#9. I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

T. Boone Pickens

#10. Let me tell you the first president to recognize the state of Israel was Harry Truman, a Democrat and every president since, Democrat and Republican, has stood closely with Israel.

Dick Durbin

#11. The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be able to buy elections.

Bernie Sanders

#12. If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.

James L. Buckley

#13. If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat.

Esther M. Friesner

#14. Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

Trey Gowdy

#15. I've been a Democrat, I've been a Republican, and I eventually became an independent because I don't believe either party has a monopoly on good ideas or strong leadership.

Michael Bloomberg

#16. Income inequality is worse in towns run by Democrat mayors than in towns run by Republican mayors.

Rand Paul

#17. I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.

Andrew Sullivan

#18. Because I'm a democrat! The will of the people is sovereign.

David Cameron

#19. Get ready; if the Democrats take the House, your taxes are going up.

George W. Bush

#20. Scientific socialism, is the most religious of all religions, and the true Social Democrat is the most deeply religious of all human beings.

Anatoly Lunacharsky

#21. It's innate in me to be a blue-dog Democrat. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong, but that's what I am. My wife and I and our family will do everything we can to support Obama. I like his ideas, I like his energy, and I like the statement he would make for our country to the world.

Tim McGraw

#22. Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.

Richard Neal

#23. The American people must not buy into the Democrat rhetoric.

Virginia Foxx

#24. What is the difference between a Democrat and a Republican? A Democrat blows, a Republican sucks.

Lewis Black

#25. I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.

John O. Brennan

#26. I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.

Tony Goldwyn

#27. On the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government: I think it should be made clear that the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, they have not got into bed together; they are merely sharing a room.

Gyles Brandreth

#28. 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.

Joshua A. Norton

#29. As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

Eli Broad

#30. I think I'm the last Democrat left in the Senate after Russ Feingold was defeated that won't take earmarks.

Claire McCaskill

#31. We cannot meet 'em [Democrates] halfway. We can't cross the aisle. These people, I'm talking about the left wherever you find them, the Democrats, they have to be defeated.

Rush Limbaugh

#32. In the western world today everyone is a democrat.

Moses Finley

#33. A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.

Peter Camejo

#34. Today's Democrat Party believes that distinct American culture is corrupt, biased, racist, sexist, prejudicial, homophobic. There is nothing about it they want to preserve.

Rush Limbaugh

#35. Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to.

James Carville

#36. It is not about promoting a distinct and great American culture because today's Democrat Party does not believe in one.

Rush Limbaugh

#37. These niggaz ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government.
Don't matter if you Independent, Democrat or Republican,
Niggaz politickin' the street, get into beef,
Start blastin' ... now a new cat is executive chief.

Talib Kweli

#38. Hillary Clinton ran the "Bimbo Eruptions Unit" with a woman named Betsey Wright. And in so doing, she preserved the Democrat Party, because she preserved the career of Bill Clinton.

Rush Limbaugh

#39. Christ was the first true democrat that ever breathed, as the old dramatist Dekkar said he was the first true gentleman.

James Russell Lowell

#40. I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Rod Serling

#41. 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

#42. I'm not a Democrat.

Aaron McGruder

#43. Eugene McCarthy is definitely an inspiration to me as a Democrat and as someone going to the university. It is definitely important to me.

Vanessa L. Williams

#44. And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

Madeleine Albright

#45. Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat and a civil rights leader during the 1960s, was one of those calling on the president for a more robust federal response, such as President Dwight D. Eisenhower did against Jim Crow-defending Southern governors.

Anonymous

#46. We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

George C. Scott

#47. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#48. 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

#49. I belong to no organized political party; I'm a Democrat

Will Rogers

#50. People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.

Brian Sandoval

#51. That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

Rush Limbaugh

#52. I gave Mitt Romney some donations for his campaign because he was a friend, and friendship came first. I've always been a Democrat, and I've had different views than Mitt Romney. I'm not Mitt Romney, and I think people will realize that when they meet me out there.

Stephen Pagliuca

#53. I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.

Mike Tyson

#54. The opposite of Nazi is neither Republican nor Democrat, conservative or liberal. Totalitarianism's diametric opposite of is Libertarianism.

A.E. Samaan

#55. Every Democrat constituency group has at least two things in common. They hate us. They despise opposition. That's why they created political correctness. Speech censorship. They hate opposition and they'll do anything they can to eliminate it.

Rush Limbaugh

#56. There's not a single Democrat here. It's almost like CPAC invited Benjamin Netanyahu to speak. Well, we could have had Hillary here, but we couldn't find a foreign nation to foot the bill.

Ted Cruz

#57. The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things.

Aristotle.

#58. Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power.

Menzies Campbell

#59. Now the Democrats control the Senate. But the good news is that now the Republicans can admit that Strom Thurmond has been dead since 1988.

Jay Leno

#60. 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

#61. They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

Clare Boothe Luce

#62. The Democrats have to be stopped and that's going to be what ultimately brings us everybody back to sobriety here.

Rush Limbaugh

#63. Drink levels all mankind. It is the ultimate democrat

Terry Pratchett

#64. Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.

E.W. Jackson

#65. Clinton's pet Labrador, Buddy, is getting neutered. The dog will never have sex again. Overnight, they've turned Buddy from a Democrat into a Republican.

Jay Leno

#66. We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

Malcolm X

#67. A Democrat hypocrite will never get harmed.

Rush Limbaugh

#68. I do believe life begins at conception. The very first time I ran for election, I took out an editorial in the local newspaper and said 'look I am a democrat. (But) on this issue, because I see it as a human rights issue, if you wanted me to vote to promote that I wouldn't be able to do that.

Stockwell Day

#69. There seems to be less obvious corruption in city government and New York politicians, they aren't Republican or Democrat, they're New Yorkers.

Malachy McCourt

#70. As to my political faith- I have never voted. My father was a Democrat, my mother a Republican, and I am an Episcopalian.

George C. Marshall

#71. The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.

Mahatma Gandhi

#72. I will never vote Democrat again, they are Communists.

Howard Stern

#73. The Democrat is the party that's gonna keep you poor!

Rafael Cruz

#74. I was not a Democrat; I was an independent. Here's the thing: You can't win that way. But I didn't know that.

Kyrsten Sinema

#75. I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

Kesha Rogers

#76. I have been saying for the some time now that America has only one party - the property party. It's the party of big corporation, the party of money. It has two right wings; one is Democrat and the other is Republican.

Gore Vidal

#77. Every Democrat says he wants to be JFK while insisting that he will do more or less what LBJ did. No Democrat would dream of saying he wanted to emulate Lyndon Johnson, because the myth is what matters most.

Jonah Goldberg

#78. Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

Randi Weingarten

#79. Oh for someone with a heart, head and hand. Whatever they call them, what do I care, aristocrat, democrat, autocrat, just be it one that can rule and dare not lie.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#80. Ernest Ransom: These are not the best if times ... as your editorials remind us
A.A. Hayes : Why not get a Democrat back in there?
Ernest Ransom: These are not the worst of times eithers
Dingley Falls

Michael Malone

#81. I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it ... I'm liberal. The L word!

Lauren Bacall

#82. Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they're all welcome, because to me, church is a place you're supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

Joel Osteen

#83. How to become a media star: Be a Republican who bucks the party line. How to be ignored by media: Be a Democrat who bucks party line.

John Nolte

#84. I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.

Calvin Klein

#85. I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates.

Walter Cronkite

#86. I left that Democrat plantation a long time ago and I ain't going back.

Herman Cain

#87. This is my favorite story of the week. The Republican National Committee is in trouble after spending nearly $2,000 at a bondage club in Hollywood. You know what I call a Republican that spends a lot of money in a strip club? A Democrat.

Jay Leno

#88. I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I'm a different kind of 'liberal' and I think people should be true to themselves. If you're Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, you should be true to yourself and be who you are.

Jon Lovitz

#89. I don't care who the president is - it ain't just all about who's black or who's white or who's Republican or Democrat, it's about who is for the betterment of people, period.

Big Boi

#90. If there were two candidates, a Democrat and a Republican, who each committed to the same kind of fundamental reform, then the election would be an election between the vice presidential candidates. It'd be just like the regular election, except it would be one step down.

Lawrence Lessig

#91. When Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman, it was a clear declaration of independence from President Clinton; no Democrat had been more critical of Clinton's misconduct.

Jeff Greenfield

#92. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a failure. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a reprobate. It's impossible for a Democrat to be a mess. It just isn't possible, as far as the mind-set of the media is concerned.

Rush Limbaugh

#93. Every Harvard class should have one Democrat to rescue it from oblivion.

Will Rogers

#94. My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.

Jerry Springer

#95. I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

Chris Bell

#96. I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

Lewis Black

#97. If you want to reinstate the 14.4 billion dollars that Bush cut out of the veterans program then vote democrat.

David Cross

#98. I'm a staunch Independant. Every time I think I am a Republican, they do something greedy, and every time I think I am a Democrat, they go and do someting stupid.

Jay Leno

#99. I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base.

Lindsay Lohan

#100. If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you're a conservative Republican, you've got to fight for your life. It's really an amazing thing.

Donald Trump

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