Republican Quotes

1. "Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar."
Author: Abraham Lincoln

2. "Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable."
Author: Adam Kinzinger

3. "We're not a homogeneous party, anymore than the Republicans are. But we are a party that I think has a plan to take us forward."
Author: Antonio Villaraigosa

4. "In the old Republican days the subject of slavery and of the saving of the Union made appeals to the consciences and liberty-loving instincts of the people. These later years have been full of talk about commerce and dinner pails, but I feel sure that the American conscience and the American love of liberty have not been smothered. They will break through this crust of sordidness and realize that those only keep their liberties who accord liberty to others."
Author: Benjamin Harrison

5. "House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?"
Author: Bill Pascrell

6. "Why in the world are you a Republican?"
Author: Calvin Trillin

7. "Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women."
Author: Cathy McMorris Rodgers

8. "I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, "At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites?" She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?"
Author: Curtis Sittenfeld

9. "Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard."
Author: David Letterman

10. "Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins."
Author: Debbie Wasserman Schultz

11. "...if the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years."
Author: Douglas Wilson

12. "I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man."
Author: Ed Gillespie

13. "As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs," an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government—for dogs."
Author: Edgar Allan Poe

14. "The old idealistic republicans used to found democracy on the idea that all men were equally intelligent. Believe me, the sane and enduring democracy is founded on the fact that all men are equally idiotic."
Author: G.K. Chesterton

15. "A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."
Author: Harry S. Truman

16. "The wrong Democratic reaction to a stupid Republican utterance is to play hurt."
Author: Hooman Majd

17. "I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that."
Author: James Denton

18. "A brick is what I'm voting for for President. And guess what? If you're voting for a Republican or Democrat, so are you."
Author: Jarod Kintz

19. "The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year."
Author: Jeff Miller

20. "Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support."
Author: Jennifer Granholm

21. "I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas."
Author: Jim DeMint

22. "The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite."
Author: John Conyers

23. "I would never tell anyone who to vote for. I'm a different kind of 'liberal' and I think people should be true to themselves. If you're Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, you should be true to yourself and be who you are."
Author: Jon Lovitz

24. "As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray."
Author: Joseph C. Wilson

25. "I have had extremely good relations with the United States and with both parties (Republicans and Democrats), and I hope to continue to have these good relations, which I, again repeating, do not consider to be mutually exclusive with having good relations with Venezuela or Ecuador or whichever country in South America."
Author: Juan Manuel Santos

26. "Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done."
Author: Julian Castro

27. "There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are."
Author: Lamar Alexander

28. "Electing pro-choice Republican women can help foster a discussion that reflects the full spectrum of views and can lead to a more balanced and responsible public dialogue."
Author: Linda Lingle

29. "It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: "Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line."
Author: Mark Halperin

30. "You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!"
Author: Mark Russell

31. "If we don't like what the Republicans do, we need to get in there and change it."
Author: Medgar Evers

32. "Bill Clinton was lucky in many ways; but when it came to former presidents, he won the lottery. When he was elected president, he had five former commanders in chief at his disposal: Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, and Bush, the most of any president in the twentieth century. Not all of them had been helpful to one another, in or out of office. But some combination of his charm, their needs, and the new global challenges of the post–Cold War age allowed Clinton to deploy nearly all to his advantage—especially, as it turned out, the Republicans."
Author: Nancy Gibbs

33. "The modern Presidents Club was founded by two men who by all rights should have loathed each other. There was Harry Truman, the humble haberdasher from Missouri, hurled into office in the spring of 1945, summoning to the White House Herbert Hoover, a failed Republican president who had left town thirteen years earlier as the most hated man in America, his motorcades pelted with rotten fruit. They were political enemies and temperamental opposites. Where Truman was authentic, amiable, if prone to eruptions of temper, Hoover could be cold, humorless, incapable of small talk but ferociously sure of the rightness of his cause."
Author: Nancy Gibbs

34. "It's easy to keep issuing blame to Republicans or the president."
Author: Nicholas D. Kristof

35. "I honestly see the battle between Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative as the exact same dynamic--there's a group of people in this world that don't like conflict and care about what other people are going through, and then there's this other group of people in the world who hate that. 'Suck it up, man, we're not coddling you, take care of yourself, what's your problem?' It's jocks versus geeks, and I've always referred to life as perpetual high school because it never stops."
Author: Paul Feig

36. "Shakespeare's ambiguous lubricity in Venus is less disturbing than the bleakly moral emphasis of Lucrece, where virtue is so low-spirited, its exclamation so lachrymose and its justification the nasty realpolitik of Roman Republicanism. The sun has not dried the dew on the grass in Venus, but the ill-lit world of Livy's Rome darkens Lucrece. The first poem lives out of doors; the second is in a permanent chiaroscuro."
Author: Peter Porter

37. "Jefferson feared that Hamilton had plans radically at odds with the Constitution. As he saw it, Hamilton wanted to warp the federal government out of constitutional shape, converting it into a copy of the British government, built on debt, corruption, and influence. Hamilton's goal, Jefferson charged, was to ally the rich and well born with the government at the people's expense, creating a corrupt aristocracy leagued with the government against the people and destroying the virtue that was the basis of republican government. Only a republic could preserve liberty, Jefferson insisted, and only virtue among the people could preserve a republic."
Author: R.B. Bernstein

38. "Don't worry if they're Democrats or Republicans. Give them service and they'll become Democrats."
Author: Richard J. Daley

39. "All of Obama's policies are working against economic growth, not for it, and Republicans ought to be talking about it and they're not. We need to take a stand."
Author: Richard Mourdock

40. "I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style."
Author: Roger Stone

41. "The fact is, I can vote for anybody; independents, Republicans, Democrats. But I'm a registered Democrat in the District of Columbia."
Author: Ron Suskind

42. "I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate."
Author: Rose McGowan

43. "And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.'"
Author: Scott Walker

44. "I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't matter."
Author: Stephen Baldwin

45. "Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough."
Author: Thomas Frank

46. "You see Democrats who will demonize business. I don't do that. You see Republicans who demonize labor. I don't do that."
Author: Tim Kaine

47. "I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision."
Author: Todd Akin

48. "We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means."
Author: Tom Coburn

49. "Fuck hope and all the tiny little towns, one-horse towns, the one-stoplight towns, three-bars country-music jukebox-magic parquet-towns, pressure-cooker pot-roast frozen-peas bad-coffee married-heterosexual towns, crying-kids-in-the-Oldsmobile-beat-your-kid-in the-Thriftway-aisles towns, one-bank one-service-station Greyhound-Bus-stop-at-the-Pepsi-Cafe towns, two-television towns, Miracle Mile towns, Viv's Double Wide Beauty Salon towns, schizophrenic-mother towns, buy-yourself-a-handgun towns, sister-suicide towns, only-Injun's-a-dead-Injun towns, Catholic-Protestant-Mormon-Baptist religious-right five-churches Republican-trickle-down-to-poverty family-values sexual-abuse pro-life creation-theory NRA towns, nervous-mother rodeo-clown-father those little-town-blues towns."
Author: Tom Spanbauer

50. "My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon."
Author: Tommy Rettig

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