Party Representation Quotes

I've been telling people, if we want to keep the Republican party in Texas, the Republican party in Texas needs to start looking like Texas. And I think that this is - that goes for the rest of the country as well.

No party is as bad as its state and national leaders.

I think we need to show people that they have a place in the Democratic Party, whether they come from San Francisco or St. Louis.

Good Dems are good Dems. They want a representative that really reflects their values.

I think more so than the Republican Party, we reflect America on the Democratic side of the aisle, and that's a healthy thing. I mean, that's what democracy is all about.

The media coverers Rush Limbaugh as if he were the king of the Republican Party. The truth of the matter is that he can’t deliver a pizza let alone a vote.

If this [national Democratic Party] is a national party, sushi is our national dish. Today, our national Democratic leaders look south and say, "I see one-third of a nation and it can go to hell."

Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been out there, who has offered an alternative - the person who offered an alternative, for example, is... Paul Ryan.

I would love to be president. I just concluded I was not the best person to carry forward the Republican torch.

I want our party to step up its efforts to reflect and champion the concerns of everybody who has reached the second half of their lives.

The Conservative Party's always stood in every seat and I think it's important to us and I’m personally very pleased that we plan to continue to run candidates in Northern Ireland as well.

As leader of the Fine Gael Party, I will also use our position in the European People's Party to clearly state our views with our European political partners.

The Democrats were in the majority in the U.S. Senate when we voted for the Iraq war and passed the U.S. Patriot Act. It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.

I hope - I'm a democrat. I'm a democratically elected politician from the Netherlands representing one of the major parties in Holland - I hope that I will be able to talk and to discuss with people.

The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.

I'm the leader of the SNP. I think you would expect me to say I would vote SNP in whatever constituency I lived in.

Ann Coulter is very popular. She has got a niche. She is a best selling author, but she does not represent Republican women.

When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.

I don't support white supremacy. I'm the one who made them take 'white supremacy' off the roster that was the symbol of the Democratic Party in this state.

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

[Nancy] Pelosi personifies this [Democratic] party's repudiation.

Over the last 30 odd years, Democrats have moved to the right and the right has moved into the mental hospital. So what we have is one perfectly good party for hedge fund managers, credit card companies, banks, defense contractors, big agriculture and the pharmaceutical lobby... That's the Democrats. And they sit across the aisle from a small group of religious lunatics, flat-earthers and civil war re-enactors who mostly communicate by AM radio and call themselves the Republicans and who actually worry that Obama is a socialist. Socialist? He's not even a liberal.

Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

Ours is not the only party which has more representation of family members.