Norman Thomas Quotes

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Actually, I believe there are more independents than either Republicans or Democrats, and yet those are the... that is the choice we have on the party ballot.

Washington is corporate occupied territory …. The two parties are fighting it out to see who will take orders from their corporate paymasters.

The two old parties … fight only for office. Observe how utterly both parties in this respect lack program and new leadership.

If there is one good thing I can say about the Republicans, it is that they are generally better than Democrats at putting the interests of their party above the interests of any one of its members.

Both parties act in their political self-interest. Indeed, that's the purpose of a political party. But unlike Democrats, at least Republicans are honest about it.

Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

We have two political parties in this country, the Stupid Party and the Evil Party. I belong to the Stupid Party.

We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas.

It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

In Cuba we have one party, but in the U.S. there is very little difference. Both parties are an expression of the ruling class.

People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there.

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.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Nobody should be surprised that Republicans vote for Republican policy. Just like Democrats vote for Democrat policy.

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

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

It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

The Democratic Party has taken the black community for granted and said, 'This is the most loyal constituency we have. They're not going anywhere.' But the Republican Party has said, 'That's the most loyal constituency Democrats have. They're not going anywhere. We've got to win without them.'