Douglas Alexander Quotes

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

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

I am so out of sympathy with what seems to be the prevailing currents of American opinion that I keep my judgment suspended as regards the political wisdom of certain [Republican] party moves

Bigger Than His Party.

What we need to do is bitch-slap the Republican Party. Get those guys heeding too, and if we have to, we’ll take it over to make it a true conservative party,

For all its faults, it is partisanship - based on core principles- that clarifies our debates, that prevents one party from straying too far from the mainstream and that constantly refreshes our politics with new ideas and new leaders.

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

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

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

We have reached the point where politicians aren’t supposed to be political and the parties aren’t supposed to debate issues.

We cost the Democratic party the opportunity to demagogue the issue of race forever. And I am damn proud of that.

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

It is the necessary nature of a political party in this country to avoid, as long as it can be avoided, the consideration of any question which involves a great change.

I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.