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...

It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it work. It makes no difference if...

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there’s no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We’re averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward...

The House Republicans couldn’t afford to elect Roy Blunt, but they weren’t honest enough to elect a real reformer.

Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.

How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

I wouldn’t take him lightly at all, … Without him, the Republicans have no one. With him, they have someone who has a record of achievement.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage — the more the minimum, the better.

This is very significant to have someone who was a Democrat for many years, and drifted over to the Republicans – like tens of millions of other Democrats known as Reagan Democrats – and then...

My feeling toward Republicans is like my feeling about sharks: of course they’re stupid and vicious. It’s in their nature to be mindless, ravening killing machines. It’s nothing personal. They don’t know any better. Pretty...

The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.

If they are going to go forward with impeachment, they’re going to have to have more witnesses … they (Republicans) may consider themselves accused of delaying. But they’ve put themselves in that bind.

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

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

[Reno’s move is still short of what Republicans would like to see.] The attorney general is taking a step in the right direction, … but, so far, she has stopped short of taking the action...

In a page ripped right out of the playbook used by President Bush and the Republicans in Washington, Gov. Fletcher has brought the Republican Party’s culture of corruption to Kentucky,

They (Republicans) are doing poorly.

This is not a time to be cutting services to the most needy among us. Are Republicans really going to cut Medicaid when we have hundreds of thousands of people displaced?

The Republicans are coming — make nice.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.

I think he’s come through in as good shape as the Republicans could have hoped.

Today’s Republican Party…is an insurgent outlier. It has become ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of...

The wind is out of the sails of inevitability. Two-thirds of the Republicans here are not ready to crown the emperor.

Republicans have to demonstrate that they are taking this scandal seriously, that they have learned from it and are reforming the system on their own.

The only way she could win would be to repeatedly attack her fellow Republicans. She doesn’t want to win that way.