Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - berating Franklin Roosevelt in particular and his attempts to ready the nation for inevitable attack.
‐‐ Nigel Hamilton
Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.
‐‐ Sherrod Brown
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
‐‐ Gerry Adams
Republican politics can sometimes feel like you're walking into, you know, an Elks Club or bachelor party.
‐‐ Kellyanne Conway
Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.
‐‐ Jonah Goldberg
Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.
‐‐ Timothy Noah
Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama's new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.
‐‐ John F. Kerry
Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.
‐‐ Gary Bauer
Republican women bring an important voice to the table.
‐‐ Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Republicans absolutely support equal pay for equal work.
‐‐ Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.
‐‐ Chuck Schumer
Republicans and Democrats are obsessed with making sure that illegal aliens are granted citizenship. The American people are not. They're concerned about jobs, the economy, debt. They're concerned about a plundering country. They're concerned about a decaying, dying country.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh
Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!
‐‐ Lewis Black
Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
‐‐ J. C. Watts
Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.
‐‐ Simon Sinek
Republicans are definitely pro-birth - they'll do everything they can to make sure that that baby comes out, regardless of how it got in, but are they pro-life? Can you be pro-life and vote to cut funding that supports the life of a child?
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln
Republicans are for clean water, clean air, and clean energy. We are not for taxing people out of their house, home and business to pay for it. And that is the fundamental difference between the Democrats and Republicans on this issue.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn
Republicans are good at standing by their candidate.
‐‐ George Clooney
Republicans are listening and offering better solutions that get Washington out of your way, out of your pocket, and back on your side.
‐‐ Phil Gingrey
Republicans are listening to America's job creators and working to address their concerns with real solutions.
‐‐ Peter Roskam
Republicans are manufacturing a Social Security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.
‐‐ Diane Watson
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
‐‐ Jimmy Carter
Republicans are not a political party. It's a mental condition.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura
Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn
Republicans are pushing legislation forward that will improve the effectiveness of and bring more accountability to U.S. foreign assistance around the world and bring democracy even further into the light.
‐‐ Virginia Foxx
Republicans are relentless and they're smart, too - they're not all dumb - and on Election Day, they'll be up at five in the morning.
‐‐ Michael Moore
Republicans are so far out to the right, it's pushing people into the Democratic Party.
‐‐ Julian Castro
Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.
‐‐ Jim DeMint
Republicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson
Republicans are willing to support and vote for realistic, meaningful financial reform.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn
Republicans aren't bad people. They've got some views that are legitimate... and I'd like to think they believe the same of me.
‐‐ Joseph P. Kennedy III
Republicans aren't interested in a one-sentence fix unless that sentence is, 'Obamacare is repealed.'
‐‐ John Barrasso
Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan
Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.
‐‐ Juan Williams
Republicans can be a funny bunch. They're against affirmative action, but they always seem to be able to find people of color to fill a slot just when they're most needed.
‐‐ John Ridley
Republicans cannot continue to oppose every Hispanic issue.
‐‐ Luis Fortuno
Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon
Republicans don't seem to mind taking inflation into account when the subject is tax rates.
‐‐ Timothy Noah
Republicans get a lot of money from big business, but they are not tied to the union dollar. As a result they have been aggressive advocates of school reform, charter schools and vouchers for private schools.
‐‐ Juan Williams
Republicans have always talked about having a big tent, but it doesn't do any good if the tent doesn't have any chairs in it. Bringing Latinos to the forefront, bringing women in is absolutely critical.
‐‐ Cory Gardner
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
‐‐ Dan Quayle
Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.
‐‐ Herman Cain
Republicans have been very successful. There are three things Americans don't like: big unions, big government and big corporations. So Republicans go after big government and big unions, and only talk about small businesses.
‐‐ Andy Stern
Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.
‐‐ Conan O'Brien
Republicans have come up to me to say, 'Hey listen. My knee hurts. What do you think I should do?' I'll give them my recommendations.
‐‐ Raul Ruiz
Republicans have never been good at public relations.
‐‐ Tammy Bruce
Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
‐‐ Lewis Black
Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare.
‐‐ Paul Ryan
Republicans have said much worse things about me than any Democrat ever has.
‐‐ Nicolle Wallace