Quotes About Ideology

Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

One miscalculation I made is I did not fully appreciate that the Republicans in Congress were going to just say no to everything. Even when there are ideas that have traditionally been bipartisan.

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.

There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

You see Democrats who will demonize business. I don't do that. You see Republicans who demonize labor. I don't do that.

For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.

The Republicans have bought into the idea that people hate them because they're opposed to everything.

There are some in black robes sitting on federal benches all across this country. They're Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and even conservatives that pervert the Constitution.

Republicans are for clean water, clean air, and clean energy. We are not for taxing people out of their house, home and business to pay for it. And that is the fundamental difference between the Democrats and Republicans on this issue.

The Republicans are, 'the party of the rich,' my mom said, 'We're poor, so we're Democrats.' That convinced me. I had no wish to remain poor, so I became a Republican at the age of 12.

Republicans are so far out to the right, it's pushing people into the Democratic Party.

It's a sad day when Republicans will attack fellow Republicans on an issue as fundamental as free enterprise.