#democrat

After Vietnam, the Democrats became fundamentally the anti-military as a party. ↗

— Heather Wilson

#became #democrats #fundamentally #party #vietnam

Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong… This [is] mostly BS. ↗

— Jeffrey A. Miller

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation. It was the Republicans in Congress who authored the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments giving former slaves citizenship, voting rights, and due process of law. The Democrats on the other hand were the Party of Jim Crow. It was Democrats who defended the rights of slave owners. It was the Republican President Dwight Eisenhower who championed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, but it was Democrats in the Senate who filibustered the bill. ↗

— Elbert Guillory

#democrats #eisenhower #emancipation-proclamation #jim-crow #lincoln

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#age #apt #class #class distinctions #democratic

This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and laying the groundwork for a better future. And that's what we want to work on with Republicans and Democrats. ↗

— David Axelrod

#better future #class #cooperation #creation #democrats

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#american idea #democratic #every #every man #god

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#capitalism #democratic #democratic society #economy #example

I'm a loyal Democrat. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#i #loyal

In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#commentators #conservative #democratic #generally #hold

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#come #democratic #democratically #differences #discuss