Kit Bond Quotes

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.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

The most biased people are the Democrats.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

I do not understand those who divide political life from the point of view of political parties.

There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great political parties, each arranged under its leader and converting measures in opposition to each other.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

Political controversies are never entered into with any wish to gain knowledge, but only a triumph for the party.

There isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between politicians of either major party.

Liberals and the Democratic Party are demonic.

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

Republicans, Weed Out Your Progressives

I don't see the point of belonging to a party on the increasingly dubious assumption that it's slightly less bad than the opposition.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Centrism is bogus.

I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

Political parties don't work when people just announce what they are doing and expect everyone else to follow.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.

The two parties are still more polarized than ever before and the rise of partisan media is an important reason for it.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

Most people are Democrats because they hate something; most people are Republicans because they love something.