<bq author="Julius Nyerere">The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.</bq> <bq author="Gore Vidal" date="the 1970s">There is only one party in the United States, the Property Party...and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat. Republicans are a bit stupider, more rigid, more doctrinaire in their laissez-faire capitalism than the Democrats, who are cuter, prettier, a bit more corrupt - until recently... and more willing than the Republicans to make small adjustments when the poor, the black, the anti-imperialists get out of hand. But, essentially, there is no difference between the two parties.</bq>