quotations about democrats
When the Democratic candidate allows himself to be put on the defensive and starts apologizing for the New Deal and the fair Deal, and says he really doesn't believe in them, he is sure to lose. The people don't want a phony Democrat. If it's a choice between a genuine Republican, and a Republican in Democratic clothing, the people will choose the genuine article, every time; that is, they will take a Republican before they will a phony Democrat, and I don't want any phony Democratic candidates in this campaign.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
address at the National Convention Banquet of the Americans for Democratic Action, May 17, 1952
The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.
JOHN SCALZI
attributed, Wake Up! You're Liberal!
In many ways, the Democratic Party creates campaigns that fake left while it moves right and becomes more corporatist, more militarist, more imperialist. This is why we say it's hard to have a revolutionary campaign inside of a counterrevolutionary party.
JILL STEIN
"Jill Stein to Bernie Sanders: Run on the Green Party Ticket & Continue Your Political Revolution", Democracy Now, June 9, 2016
As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and that the many small ones, like the fewer large ones, are all politically supporting their class interests, and this is always and everywhere the capitalist class.
EUGENE V. DEBS
International Socialist Review, 1900
When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don’t say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there is class warfare. There has always been class warfare in this country." The reason the Democrats shrink back is because the Democrats and the Republicans are on the same side of the class war. They have slightly different takes. The Democrats are part of the upper class that is more willing to make concessions to the lower class in order to maintain their power.
HOWARD ZINN
interview, Identity Theory, Jan. 10, 2001
The tragedy of the Democratic Party through much of its history was an unwillingness to stand strong against its southern wing and to clearly align itself with the cause of social and economic justice.
JOHN NICHOLS
"When Republicans Really Were the Party of Lincoln", The Nation, July 2, 2014