#rats

It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person. ↗

— Jean Harris

#people #person #poking #rat #rats

Anarchists are simply unterrified Jeffersonian Democrats. ↗

— Benjamin Tucker

#simply

But people ought to be proud to be Democrats right now. You know, we're a happy warrior party. And this Congress has every reason to be very, very proud of the heavy lifting that they have done. ↗

— Tim Kaine

#democrats #done #every #happy #heavy

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

— T.H. White

#communism #democrats #humor #politics #age

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 off these seven- or eight-figure checks on the other side. That disparity is pretty striking, and so are the implications. In many ways, we're back in the Gilded Age. We have robber barons buying the government. ↗

— David Axelrod

#democrats #donations #fund-raising #gilded-age #government

Until Americans stop getting distracted by the Republicans v/s Democrats melodrama, America will move forward towards war, empire & eventually collapse. ↗

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

#republicans #age

Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in the cage. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#cages #life #rage #rats #anger

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. ↗

— James Morcan

#democrats #espionage #fiction #political #republican-party-united-states

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

— Charlton Heston

#democrats #left #politics #change

If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a "Liberal", then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#liberal #politics #courage