Another Quote by Rick Perlstein

The political future for Democrats is daunting.

— Susan Davis

“Democrats should reevaluate a lot of our assumptions about which policies are politically viable. These trends make universal programs even more appealing than we…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

I'm of the opinion that the Democrats have the ideas I agree with more often than not. Reenergizing the middle class and giving people…

— Henry Rollins

So let's see what they [Republicans] are going to do. If they're going to put together great programs, and everybody understands that they're good.

— Maxine Waters

I have been a lifelong Democrat. Like all ideas, though, the Democrat ideas need to be dynamic. It needs to be kept current.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Democrats will play the old Washington game of calling reductions in the rate of growth of spending for any program a 'cut'.

— Bruce Bartlett

Unfortunately, Democrats don't want to wage a war on poverty or improve program integrity; they prefer talking points.

— Mark Meadows

A lot of Democrats like to play the 'If we were Republicans' game. I usually hate it; I don't want to behave like the…

— Jennifer Palmieri

All of these years I've been doing my program I was under the impression the Republican Party wanted to beat Democrats. And as the…

— Rush Limbaugh

I believe that we need to think very seriously, particularly as folks of color and progressives, about building either a new party or a…

— Michelle Alexander

I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me…

— William J. Clinton

I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real…

— Jack Kingston