#democrat

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

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#democrat #good #great #i #i came

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

Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned. ↗

— Samuel Dash

#because #democratic #expressing #first #first time

One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if you're on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder it's running away. ↗

— Mike Huckabee

#alike #away #care #cost #democrats

Real Democrats don't abandon the middle class. ↗

— John F. Kerry

#class #democrats #middle #middle class #real

We love your adherence to democratic principles. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#democratic #love #principles #your

I'm not a Democrat. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

#i

They talk about conscription as a democratic institution. Yes; so is a cemetary. ↗