{"quotes":[{"text":"I am not for the left or the right, but for what is right over the wrong. I am not an elephant or a donkey, but a lion that stands only with Truth and my conscience.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["conscience","democrats","elections","political-parties","republicans","truth","voting"],"id":2978,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing. They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights. They favor minimum wage--the smaller the minimum wage the better. They endorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them. They consider electrical power a great blessing--but only when the private power companies get their rake-off. They think American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people. And they admire of Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it.","author":"Harry Truman","tags":["humor","politics","republicans"],"id":5079,"author_id":"Harry+Truman"},{"text":"The Constitution, the National Assembly, the dynastic parties, the blue and the red republicans, the heroes of Africa, the thunder from the platform, the sheet lightning of the daily press, the entire literature, the political names and the intellectual reputations, the civil law and penal code, the liberté, égalité, fraternité and the second of May 1852—all have vanished like a phantasmagoria before the spell of a man whom even his enemies do not make out to be a magician. Universal suffrage seems to have survived only for a moment, in order that with its own hand it may make its last will and testament before the eyes of all the world and declare in the name of the people itself: Everything that exists has this much worth, that it will perish.","author":"Karl Marx","tags":["itarian","itarianism","bourgeois","brumaire","cipolla","constitution","coup-d-etat","dictator","dictatorship","dynasty","fascism","france","french-republic","louis-bonaparte","magician","mario-and-the-magician","monarchy","mountebank","napoleon","press","republicans","revolution","socialism","spell","suffrage","third-republic"],"id":8439,"author_id":"Karl+Marx"},{"text":"The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.","author":"P.J. O'Rourke","tags":["america","democrats","government","humor","politics","republicans"],"id":11348,"author_id":"P.J.+O%27Rourke"},{"text":"There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young.","author":"Eddie Whitlock","tags":["politics","republicans","voting"],"id":11923,"author_id":"Eddie+Whitlock"},{"text":"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.","author":"Jimmy Carter","tags":["politics","republicans"],"id":20867,"author_id":"Jimmy+Carter"},{"text":"At the end of the day, I do not care how many Democrats or Republicans are in office. What I do care about is whether our leader is truly serving THE PEOPLE or only his/her own pockets. Is our leader in tune with the concerns and needs of the man on the street - or only issues concerning private interests? Is this leader uniting or dividing the country? Milking or contributing to it? Building and preserving it -- or bringing it all down?","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["corruption","democrats","leaders","leadership","liberals","politics","president","republicans","truth"],"id":21964,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.","author":"Harry Truman","tags":["politics","republicans"],"id":28645,"author_id":"Harry+Truman"},{"text":"The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.","author":"George Orwell","tags":["democracy","democracy-fascism","democracy-freedom","democracy-voting","elections","free-speech","freedom","government","liberty","media","political-science","politics-observation","politics-science","politicsics","power","president","republicans","responsibility","vote","voters","voting","voting-rights"],"id":35106,"author_id":"George+Orwell"},{"text":"The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle.","author":"T. Rafael Cimino","tags":["democrats","political","politics","republicans"],"id":35772,"author_id":"T.+Rafael+Cimino"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":74,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}