All Quotes

Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.
‐‐ Stuart Rothenberg

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.
‐‐ David Frum

Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.
‐‐ Zach Wamp

Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Republicans know that government spending creates jobs. They just want that spending to be funneled to their projects and districts... and they certainly don't want to say it out loud.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm

Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.
‐‐ Johnny Ramone

Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
‐‐ Jack Kemp

Republicans may learn they can't appeal to right-wing patriarchs and most women at the same time.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

Republicans must stop putting tax increases on the fiscal cliff negotiating table and start demanding that Democrats put forth serious proposals to reduce spending.
‐‐ John Fleming

Republicans need to stay strong on the fact that marriage is between a man and a woman. Those are values that are true to the party and true to who we are. They could focus on jobs and the economy, but we all know that keeping the family structure intact is very important in our country.
‐‐ Nikki Haley

Republicans need to stop making assumptions, and they need to start talking to younger people, people of color, and ask them - not talk to them - ask them, 'What is it that we can do better? How do we earn your vote? How do we earn the ability for you to see that we can be the party that will make your life better and that of your children?'
‐‐ Susana Martinez

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us and now we're discovering we work for Fox.
‐‐ David Frum

Republicans passed the Fourteenth Amendment, securing for blacks equal rights under the law, and the Fifteenth Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote, over the Democrats' opposition.
‐‐ Dinesh D'Souza

Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!
‐‐ Mitt Romney

Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.
‐‐ Keith Ellison

Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.
‐‐ Gary Bauer

Republicans regard Dean as one of their best secret weapons, I have yet to find a Democrat who, in private chatter, doesn't think he's a problem for them.
‐‐ Rich Galen

Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.
‐‐ Marsha Blackburn

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

Republicans, say Democrats, are too simplistic about what ails America, and their solutions are straight out of 'J.A.G.'
‐‐ Kevin Bleyer

Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

Republicans say they want citizenship to truly mean something. Let's be equal-opportunity about it and test everyone, including those very Republicans and others whose forbears came here generations ago.
‐‐ Eric Liu

Republicans should embrace the possibility that Obamacare could pave the way toward lower health care entitlement spending overall. That won't be easy. But it's not unthinkable, either.
‐‐ Joe Klein

Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.
‐‐ Tom Coburn

Republicans spend and borrow, Democrats tax and spend.
‐‐ Stan Jones

Republicans spend too much time on defense. We have to be on offense. We have to point out the truth. President Obama stole seven hundred million dollars from Medicare. Republicans want to preserve Medicare. Obamacare robs from Medicare.
‐‐ Rudy Giuliani

Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good.
‐‐ James Wolcott

Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

Republicans think tax filing should be easier for you, not just the well-connected.
‐‐ Joni Ernst

Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
‐‐ J. C. Watts

Republicans today have given the country conservatism in the spirit of Sarah Palin, whose ignorance about the world, contempt for expertise, and raw appeals to white identity politics presaged Trump's incendiary campaign.
‐‐ George Packer

Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'
‐‐ Rand Paul

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
‐‐ Dan Quayle

Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.
‐‐ Frank Luntz

Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

Republicans went off track. We were spending too much money.
‐‐ Steve Chabot

Republicans will own Congress.
‐‐ Bob Corker

Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.
‐‐ Ron Fournier

Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.
‐‐ Joseph Story

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
‐‐ Aristotle

Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
‐‐ Charles de Secondat

Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it.
‐‐ Jean Genet

Reputation is a timely subject, now that nobody has one.
‐‐ Tina Brown

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.
‐‐ George William Curtis

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.
‐‐ Derek Jacobi

Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
‐‐ Saint Francis de Sales

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
‐‐ Thomas Paine