What we are seeing this year is that he’s pretty much worn out his welcome, especially with Democrats and with nonpartisans, … It almost has a counterproductive impact in this year’s campaign.

I think tax reform is a winning issue for Democrats, … There’s more momentum out there for getting something done on the tax code than there is on what the president wants to do with...

These numbers are scary. We’ve lost every advantage we’ve ever had. The good news is Democrats don’t have much of a plan. The bad news is they may not need one.

While the vice president has been a partisan obstacle to reform, the governor will join Democrats and Republicans alike to save Social Security for the next generation.

On Undecided Voter?s: “To put them in perspective, I think? of being? on an airplane.? The flight attendant comes? down the aisle? with her food cart and, eventually,? parks? it beside my seat.? Can I...

It’s important for us as Democrats to stick together.

Votes against him probably only look political. There’s not enough distance between Democrats and charges of obstructionism on judicial nominees that should make them comfortable. It wouldn’t take a whole lot for Republicans to dredge...

I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.

if Democrats are disappointed with the returns, they need to take a long, close look at their party and the empty campaign waged by Al Gore.

We felt there was a need to get Democrats from western Maryland together. There was a feeling that state Democrats tend to ignore western Maryland.

It’s not gone forward because there’s a political advantage for the Democrats not to have an immigration bill.

We start off with the basic fact that the Democrats have filibustered and you can expect them to filibuster if the nominees are not within the broad range of acceptability, … And I think there...

Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well....

There’s a bit of a feeling of helplessness in the air. Most people think the Social Democrats aren’t capable of governing the country. Some think they don’t want to. But only a few people have...

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to...

emboldened a lot of Democrats to support him.

It’s really a very smart thing for her to do. Democrats have had some success in the rural areas in the past and I think she’s trying to rev up that constituency again.

Senator Reid said on the Senate floor that it would take a miracle for Democrats to take back the Senate in 2006, and I think he’s correct about that,

I didn`t change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.

There are Democrats everywhere,

This is a clear signal that the Social Democrats are the main party of the center-left and will remain so.

Support of a guest-worker program is a significant finding. Republicans and Democrats, voters and nonvoters are all in favor of a guest-worker program.

[But Democrats clearly face hurdles that make it harder to translate national discontent into big changes in the House.] The map is not skewed for competitive races, … On the other hand, you have voters...

I believe in a relatively equal society, supported by institutions that limit extremes of wealth and poverty. I believe in democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law. That makes me a liberal, and I’m...

The energy plan offered by the Democrats on the Hill has some areas of overlapping commonality with the plan that the president is about to propose and the president looks forward to working with Congress...

We ran to win this election and we lost. It is quite clear that the Social Democrats won this election. There is nothing to discuss about this result.

With modern technology it is the easiest of tasks for a media, guided by a narrow group of political manipulators, to speak constantly of democracy and freedom while urging regime changes everywhere on earth but...

Democrats see a door opening.

There are many Democrats who want the Senate to serve its historic function as being the arena where controversies can be discussed and investigated, such as Watergate and Iran-Contra,

there are 40 slam dunk states where Republicans or Democrats will win handily.

What is happening is escalating, and then there is escalating beyond that. I go back to 1987, when the Democrats won control of the Senate, President Reagan’s last two years, and it was tough, but...

The fight for the soul of the party has not been concluded yet. The centrist Democrats are still alive, they want fiscal prudence, no big social spending programs. The Howard Dean wing of the Democratic...

We must sober up and admit that too many of the Republicans and the Democrats have played us, lied to us and stolen from us, while the getaway car was driven by the media. A...

The Social Democrats clearly succeeded in winning back some of the undecided Social Democratic voters as a result of the good impression Gerhard Schroeder gave in the TV duel.

Florida Democrats are all for it.

I don’t believe in Democrats now seeking revenge, and I will not be part of that, … will not be a pushover hearing.

The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats…

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,...