I used to vote Democrat.
As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I’ve always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.
In the U.S., it’s all about turnout, which means you have to appeal to every single Democrat to get them to vote.
My mother was a Democrat – southern Democrat, y’all.
It is unacceptable that Democrat leaders would rather push their divisive agenda and focus only on identity politics instead of holding hearings or doing the bipartisan, substantive work Israel needs.
I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn’t agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.
This will be the first time in my lifetime I’m voting for a Democrat. I’m going to vote for Hillary Clinton. I’ve already voted.
Like many of my friends and associates, I am a life-long Democrat. We have a rock-solid commitment to supporting the political party that we so strongly believe offers the most promising vision of America: one that recognizes the proper role of government, the importance of compassion, and the value of diversity.
I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.
The liberal people are the violent people in this country. The Democrat Party are the violent people.
Whether you’re a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative, it is clear that we’ve got big problems that we need to address, starting with making our economy more competitive so that we can create more good-paying jobs for the middle class.
Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of America. Obama didn’t just win; he became the first Democrat since Jimmy Carter to win a popular-vote majority.
When he was running, my thinking was, ‘I can’t believe my governor is running for president.’ By the end of Clinton’s first year in office, I was like, ‘Wow, I must not be a Democrat.’
When Al Gore picked Joe Lieberman, it was a clear declaration of independence from President Clinton; no Democrat had been more critical of Clinton’s misconduct.
When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you’re not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.
That’s one of the problems with this country: they put you in a box. You’re a Republican, you’re a Democrat, you’re conservative, you’re liberal. And that’s really unfair.
I just am a Democrat. I could never, never be a Republican.
I’m a Democrat, and I have strong reasons for being a Democrat.
I’ve been left to wonder if it’s the national Republican Party Scott Brown represents, or the people of Massachusetts? Let me add that I believe it’s a fair question to ask of any of us, Republican or Democrat, who have the privilege of being sent to Washington.
I will not claim I will solve all the world’s problems by myself. If I did, I’d have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
And that’s very important, too, ’cause a lot of people just assume everyone’s a Democrat, or everyone’s a Republican or whatever, and they’re not. And that’s a really important thing to adhere to.
My father was a Republican and my mother was a Democrat. In Michigan, we always fought about sports, not politics.
What the hell is a Republican? What the hell is a Democrat? I don’t care. I’ve always urged people to make sure you vote for the right guy.
It’s like miners’ coal dust underneath your fingernails. Very difficult to scrub out. I’m a social democrat to my fingertips.
I’m a growth-is-good Democrat.
Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.
The attitude of the Democrat Party is that wherever there are Republicans they are so bad, they are so discriminatory, they are so racist, they’re so bigoted, they’re just such reprobates that we can’t afford to let them have any say whatsoever in what’s happening.
So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I’m really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.
Obama is the rare Democrat who talks easily about faith and values and who does so without upsetting those offended by the mixture of religion and politics.
I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life.
While headlines are being generated about the Democrat mindset of nationalizing private businesses and bailing out failed ventures, we seem to be ignoring one of the most massive bail-outs ever: the taxpayer-funded process of transitioning people from analog to digital television.
I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
I’m considered a new Democrat, which would be considered moderate.
I mean, there’s certainly unreachable people in either party that will never vote Democrat or Republican. That’s a fact.
I’m a democrat. I will fight until the end to defend democracy and the will of the people.
I am a Democrat and disagree with virtually all of President Trump’s policy positions, including those on healthcare, LGBTQ rights, civil rights, immigration, global warming, gun control, and tax ‘reform.’
My dad took me to John Kennedy’s inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.
I’ve always been a Democrat; it runs in my family.
We further decree that the Senate of the United States elect a prominent Democrat as their presiding officer, to act as President until the next election, and to reconstruct the Cabinet according to our wishes hereafter to be declared.
My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn’t know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer – a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer – and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.
Few political debates have been as divisive as the European one. I fought as hard as I could on the Remain side, but I believe strongly that as a democrat I should respect the result, and that as a politician it is my duty to make the Brexit settlement as good as possible.
There’s no reason why fiscal responsibility is a Democrat or a Republican point of view. It ought to be all of our points of view.
To me, being a Democrat means we can’t let ‘We the People’ turn into ‘We the Few.’
My approach to politics is that I’m not a Democrat or a Republican. I’m an American and I always support candidates I think are great for the country.
A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
I was raised a Democrat, and now I’m an Independent.
I was lifelong Democrat just because, well, you know, monkey-see, monkey-do. I was just doing everything that my family was doing.
I’ve had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don’t know my position, just because I’m a Democrat. I’ve had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I’m a Democrat.
I ran in the reddest state of the United States of America. I turned almost 35 percent of the people that voted for Donald Trump back to voting for a Democrat.
I am a lifelong Democrat.
And frankly, I don’t understand – I mean, I’m obviously a card-carrying Democrat – but I can’t understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.
The truth is that for a Democrat to triumph in a presidential election, it needs to come on the heels of ‘the dark times’ of an unpopular Republican administration. Carter followed the Nixon era, Clinton succeeded after 12 years of Reagan/Bush, and Obama was a direct result of eight years of Bush/Cheney.
My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican – just because I think reporters are smart.
I have very vivid memories of my parents talking about Nixon, my mom watching Watergate on the black-and-white set in the living room. The mayor at the time in Philadelphia was a guy named Frank Rizzo – a Democrat, a real bully, a racist.
This isn’t a Republican issue. This isn’t a Democrat issue. This is something that both parties and people around the country have agreed to. They don’t want Guantanamo Bay detainees in the United States.
I started out as a Democrat.
The Democrat Party is the party of domestic terrorism.
During the 2010 election campaign, Liberal Democrat candidates, including Swinson, signed the National Union of Students pledge to vote against tuition fees. Looking back, students were among the first to see the reality of the Liberal Democrats in government.
Hillary Clinton is a centrist Democrat who is more hawkish than President Obama and far more principled and knowledgeable about foreign affairs than Trump, who is too unstable and erratic to be entrusted with the nuclear triad he has never heard of.
