#democrats

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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

— Sarah Palin

#gop #independents #need #reagan

I think what both Republicans and Democrats need to do and the leaders on both sides is to recognize that if sequester takes place, it would be disastrous for our national defense and very frankly for a lot of very important domestic programs. They have a responsibility to come together, find the money necessary to de-trigger sequester. ↗

— Leon Panetta

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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down. ↗

— Nancy Pelosi

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I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it. ↗

— Mike Pence

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The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. ↗

— Robert Reich

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My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously. ↗

— Scott Rigell

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While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

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We tend to talk, Democrats, as a party, in legislative terms. ↗

— Charles Schumer

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