The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.
It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country, against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.
If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.
I believe that democracies do not go to war; that's the lesson of history, and I think that a democratic Pakistan is the world community's best guarantee of stability in Asia.
We as governors, whether we're Republican or Democrat, we really believe that we know what's best for our people. And in Arizona, and particularly we're very interested about natural resources.
When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking.
Let me announce this to the American people tonight one of the best things about this debate, as a Democrat from Massachusetts, I have proposed eliminating, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax.
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.
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.
Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic.
Americans know that we cannot tax and spend our way out of a recession, yet Democrats can't grasp this simple fact.
I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all people.
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.
I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.
It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.
A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.
I have worked in every - every Democratic administration since the Kennedy administration, and I know dysfunctionality when I see it.
A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect.
