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A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect. ↗

— Roy Jenkins

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There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

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Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child. ↗

— Robert Casey

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If our country is to reach a workable solution to the abortion issue, the Democratic party must be open to and tolerant of opposing views. ↗

— Robert Casey

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Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me. ↗

— Charlie Crist

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The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

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A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate. ↗

— David Frum

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