Republican Party Quotes - Page 10

• I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.

  Richard Posner

  Party, Becoming, Conservative

  "Judge Posner: GOP has gone 'goofy'" by William Bergstrom, www.politico.com. July 6, 2012.

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• Prosperity is no idle expression. It is a job for every worker; it is the safety and safeguard of very business and every home. A continuation of the policies of the Republican party is fundamentally necessary to the future advancement of this progress and to the further building up of this prosperity.

  Herbert Hoover

  Jobs, Party, Home

  Hoover, Herbert (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Herbert Hoover, 1929”, p.589, Best Books on

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• We want...as soon as possible to see a majority of the Republican Party in the hands of pro-family Christians by 1996.

  Pat Robertson

  Christian, Party, Hands

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• The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.

  Charles Evers

  Country, Party, Done

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• I am proud that the Republican Party stands for strong support for the military, and I am sure we will consistently support our men and women serving in dangerous places around the world and their families.

  John Shimkus

  Strong Women, Military, Party

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• I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

  Rick Santorum

  Party, Fighting, Movement

  "Santorum Is Severely Wrong" by Gene Healy, reason.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.

  Bill Jenkins

  Party, Two, Political

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• The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

  Ed Markey

  Country, Party, Rights

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• There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As for political judgment, the promotion of Sarah Palin as a possible world leader speaks for itself. The Republican Party and the political right will survive, but the conservative intellectual tradition is already dead. And all of us, even liberals like myself, are poorer for it.

  Mark Lilla

  Party, Leader, Political

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• Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into disdain for the educated class as a whole, and worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters. I couldn't care less about the future of the Republican Party, but I do care about the quality of political thinking and judgment in the country as a whole.

  Mark Lilla

  Country, New York, Party

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• Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican Party. Conservative movement and tea party movement... People like Karl Rove liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity say you can say ‘Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look we have a black man!'” Garofalo hypothesized. “Look he’s polling well and won a straw poll!

  Janeane Garofalo

  Stupid, Party, Gay

  "Janeane Garofalo To Keith Olbermann: ‘Herman Cain Hides The Racist Elements Of The Republican Party’" by James Crugnale, www.mediaite.com. September 29, 2011.

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• The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Party, People, Giving

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. March 7, 2004.

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• There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.

  Lindsey Graham

  Country, Moving, Party

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• Clint Eastwood's speech was kind of a metaphor for the entire Republican Party: A confused old person yelling at something that doesn't exist.

  Bill Maher

  Confused, Party, Yelling

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• If the Republican Party shifts to the right, how will we know?

  Randy Cohen

  Party, Republican, Knows

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• If its platform is any guide, the Republican party is staunchly pro-life until you are actually born.

  Andy Borowitz

  Party, Pro Life, Republican

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Sep 21, 2011

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• I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. I don't think the libertarians have it right when it comes to what the Constitution's all about. I don't think they have it right as to what our history is.

  Rick Santorum

  Party, Fighting, Thinking

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• The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe.

  Mike Lofgren

  Party, Europe, Political

  "Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult". www.truth-out.org. September 3, 2011.

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• It is disingenuous to imply that my father was a Republican. He never endorsed any presidential candidate, and there is certainly no evidence that he ever even voted for a Republican. It is even more outrageous to suggest that he would support the Republican Party of today, which has spent so much time and effort trying to suppress African American votes in Florida and many other states.

  Martin Luther King III

  Father, Party, Florida

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• I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

  Michael Reagan

  Party, Rocks, Long

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. September 01, 2004.

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• A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.

  Susan Estrich

  Christian, Party, White

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• There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

  Frank Luntz

  Pain, Disappointment, Regret

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• I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

  Jon Huntsman, Jr.

  Country, Party, Government

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• How did the party that elected the first black U.S. senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote?

  Rand Paul

  Party, Rights, Race

  "Sen. Rand Paul Tries To Repair GOP's Image With Minorities". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. April 11, 2013.

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• I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

  Claire McCaskill

  Party, Trying, Welcome

  "Battle for the Senate on 'Fox News Sunday'". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2010.

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