Political Parties

"The Democrats seem to basically be nice people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I'd be reluctant to trust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy."
        --Dave Barry

"Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,... to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man."
        --Thomas Jefferson

"Like in [the 1950s] if you wanted to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood you claimed he was a Communist. Nowadays, you want to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood, you claim they are Republican."
        --Jay Leno

"Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it’s the rule."
        --Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, 1886

"Democrats are ... the party of governmental activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it."
        --P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of whores

"So what if I don't agree with the Democrats? What's to disagree with? They believe everything. And what they don't believe, the Republicans do. Neither of them stands for anything they believe in, anyway."
        --P.J. O'Rourke

"For several decades, we have been governed by alternating wings of a common political enterprise. In decisive respects, the national establishments of the Democratic and Republican Parties act as if they were branches of One Party, differing only in degree in their endorsement of high spending and taxes, acceptance of the anti-life culture as a permanent feature of American law, the expansion of federal power and control in disregard of constitutional limitations, the surrender of American sovereignty to international bureaucracies, and the imperial deployment and unjust use of American military and economic power to serve the interests, not of the American people, but of a New World Order at the service of an anti-life and moneyed elite."
        --Will Rogers

"It would drive a person crazy to dope out really what does divide the two parties. Prosperity don't divide the two parties, for under either administration the poor get poorer and the rich get richer."
        --Will Rogers

"The trouble with Democrats is that they all want to run for President"
        --Will Rogers

"[Political parties are] potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government."
        --George Washington