Democrats have had some tradition in the past of beating themselves up in the primary and weakening their position going into the general election and that’s not going to happen in 2006.

Politically, Republicans and Democrats are at opposite ends. One’s a burp and the other’s a fart.

Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.

It looks to me like they’re [the Democrats] laying down, … What they don’t understand is this isn’t a battle over political philosophy. It’s a battle over what kind of judge. And the conservative kind...

The voters are stepping back and want more information about the two Democrats. They don’t seem to have much of an impression.

I get along with Democrats really well, and I think that’s something that’s unreported. I think it’s partly my libertarian tendencies.

Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things and experiences in pursuit of happiness is not necessarily a bad life, but...

There are nine Democrats who spend all of their time saying negative things about the president, and that means there’s a large resonation, a large reinforcement of a negative message that’s coming at the president,

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation,

I think 2006 may be a very contentious year. The Democrats see a very weakened president, and the Republicans running for re-election are really concerned about relying on Bush’s popularity. I think the Democrats are...

The Democrats are starting to draw blood and cause some pain for the Republicans. They are exerting their will.

And wrinkles (the damned democrats) won’t flatter

The president has every right and an obligation to come out here and say thank you to Democrats who have stood with him in good times and in difficult times, … He’s out here enjoying,...

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.

Would Democrats really turn down Larry Thompson, a second black [member of the high court], when Republicans are going out of their way to recruit blacks into their ranks? … Perhaps a Thompson nomination could...

I’m not sure that’s a winning issue for Democrats.

If the Democrats were smart, they would take the bull by the horns and push for really tough lobbying reforms. But they’re not.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get...

We need independents, we need the GOP, we need Reagan Democrats.

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

Iraq looks messier and messier. Gasoline prices have soared. The president’s controversial plans for overhauling Social Security give Democrats a big cudgel to hammer Republicans among seniors.

It is not safe to be in Baghdad, it is patently unsafe and that’s true for whatever political persuasion you are. They will kill you if you are Republican, they will kill you if you...

With 15 percent of the delegates selected so far, I question whether Democrats really want to choose somebody that they don’t know much about,

Democrats are less prone historically to turn to a defeated nominee again.

These Democrats are not well-known to large segments of the California electorate, so we’ll have to wait and see how they stack up,

The most biased people are the Democrats.

So, I’m a playwright. In Minneapolis. Which means that I find myself operating in a pretty lefty crowd, most of the time. And most of my energy goes towards arguing with that, and musing about...

It’s time to send Virgil Goode home. Virgil Goode has lost his way . We Democrats can do better.

She powerfully combines a real-life understanding of the issues that face Iowans with a long record of experience in the legislative and executive branches. And make no mistake, as a Democrat who has won election...

Theirs is a campaign that explicitly excluded Democrats in every way. But it’s now very explicitly reaching out to Democrats, and, we think, they will be wholly unsuccessful.

The Democrats have to sweep the competitive Republican races to take power, while holding all of their own. That’s tough.

the first time our Republican colleagues have joined Democrats in insisting on a clear Iraq strategy from this administration.

Most of them (Democrats and Republicans) are politicians with fingers to the wind, … And if I win, we’ll be giving them a lot of wind.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

He was one of the white Democrats who started out as one of the conventional segregationists and then made the transition to biracial politics.

I think he’s an extraordinarily upstanding and ethical guy, … And he’s a passionate Democrat.

It would be pretty irresponsible for Democrats to say we want to cut back on fossil fuels and not support nuclear. If Democrats made it a little easier to move forward on nuclear power, that...

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn’t learn from the past and Republicans who couldn’t stop living in it…

The minor good news is that Democrats are finding their voice and they’ve broken the taboo against talking about the war.

Democrats don’t say what we’re for instead.

They lost what many would consider their most promising candidate, because he is the one with money. I think there is a loss of momentum for the Democrats here.

It’s ethics and education and our economy where the two of us differ, not on the Democrats’ social issues.

I know something about being a target of other Democrats.

It is important to note that the inevitable political posturing by Democrats and pundits will ebb and flow based on the rise and fall of some numbers, but the leadership and the resolve of this...

I’m not going to stop beating up on the Democrats for wasteful spending.

I’m thrilled the Democrats in the Town of Poughkeepsie responded to my pleas for their support, … I look forward to an honest campaign in November.

If media polls were a good indication of general election results, only Democrats would run for office.

And for far too long, the Democrats have had a monopoly on black votes in this country.

Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong… This [is]...

Democrats understand that if they are going to win in 2008, they have got to select reasonable candidates who can match the Republicans in experience on foreign policy and the war on terror. They have...