Borders Quote by Jonathan Raban

Seattle is this curious liberal island.

— Jonathan Raban

The democrats are a coastal party.

— Chuck Todd

I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.

— Gary Locke

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep ultramarine, and its manners…

— Jonathan Raban

We need to go everywhere. There is not one county in this state, I don't care how far west you go, that doesn't have…

— Howard Dean

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

— Robert Orben

The Democrats have an economic message that is directed at people at the lower end. That has been their cornerstone. The Republicans has been…

— Mark Shields

Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect…

— Meg Greenfield

I love the Upper West Side. I walk down the street all the time and am stopped by Democrats. I don't think they've ever…

— Joe Scarborough

“Seattle is Sweden! Extremely liberal, progressive, and very white, with a strong undercurrent of racism.”

— Sherman Alexie

What strikes me when I leave Washington is the extent to which there's a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country.…

— Mark McKinnon

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father…

— Elliott Abrams