Republican Quotes

• Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Responsibility, Past

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.

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• It does look like it's almost like South Africa to this extent: You have a white - what's the word - feeble minority. It's losing its majority status. And it says, the Republican Party, 'We can only get so many white votes. So, we got to reduce the votes of others.' It does look that way. Only the - maybe you're non-partisan, but only Republicans have pushed this in these 31 states. No Democratic legislature. You gotta look at the pattern here. You talk about profiling. I'm sorry, Republicans do this stuff.

  Chris Matthews

  Sorry, Party, White

  "The Top 20 Worst Chris Matthews Quotes Calling Obama Critics Racist" by Geoffrey Dickens, www.newsbusters.org. November 7, 2013.

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• The Republican party is not a church. It does not promulgate doctrine and then exclude those who fail to share it. But political parties must stand for something, or they will be unable to generate enthusiastic support from the volunteers needed to burn shoe leather and calories winning competitive elections.

  Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

  Party, Winning, Shoes

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• The reason women don't vote for Republicans is not that they haven't had the impact of Republican policies spelled out in simple enough terms for them. It's because they understand Republican policies perfectly well. Women vote against Republicans because they know the impact Republican policies have on their lives.

  Renee Ellmers

  Simple, Impact, Vote

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• Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

  Ronald Reagan

  Funny, Business, Party

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• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  H. L. Mencken

  Thankful, Gratitude, Freedom

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

  Malcolm X

  Party, Men, Black

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Boys, Thinking

  Newt Gingrich's Address to the College Republicans at the Atlanta Airport Holiday Inn, www.pbs.org. June 24, 1978.

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• These are not bad people. All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in school alongside some big overgrown Negroes.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Girl, Sweet, Stupid

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• Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

  Dan Quayle

  Way, Vote, Poor

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• I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Stupid, Humorous

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• My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that don't think too much further than that. And so what you've got to do is you've got to curtail that type of behavior. They don't know any better.

  Andre Bauer

  Children, Stupid, Silly

  "Starve the Poor" by James Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2010.

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• I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

  Antonin Scalia

  Stupid, Silly, Sake

  "Scalia Describes ‘Dangerous’ Trend" by Daniel J. Hemel, www.thecrimson.com. September 29, 2004.

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• Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Dollars, Conflict

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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• If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle., unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs

  James Connolly

  Mother, Country, Army

  James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”

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• I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

  Jesse Ventura

  Business, Party, Believe

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.15, Villard

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• But while Ireland is not free I remain a rebel, unconverted and unconvertible. There is no word strong enough for it. I am pledged as a rebel, an unconvertible rebel, to the one thing - a free and independent Republic.

  Constance Markievicz

  Strong, Independent, Rebel

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• The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Rights, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.116, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.

  Bobby Sands

  Happiness, Laughter, Children

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.

  Michele Bachmann

  Stupid, Silly, Thinking

  "Michele Bachmann wrong that swine flu broke out under Carter" by Bill Adair, www.politifact.com. April 30, 2009.

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• He [Tinky Winky] is purple - the gay-pride color, and his antenna is shaped like a triangle - the gay pride symbol.

  Jerry Falwell

  Stupid, Silly, Pride

  "Parents Alert: Tinky Winky Comes Out of the Closet". National Liberty Journal, February 1999.

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• They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

  Bobby Sands

  Broken, Want, Spirit

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• Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

  Rick Santorum

  Stupid, Homeland Security, Standing

  Rick Santorum (2005). “Rick Santorum”, p.188, Xulon Press

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• If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president.

  Ann Coulter

  Silly, Worry, President

  Interview with "New York Observer", October 2, 2007.

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• The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

  Johnny Depp

  Party, Airplane, Actors

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