Republican Quotes - Page 10

• Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.

  Francis Bond Head

  Light, Darkness, Mind

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• We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.

  Barack Obama

  Political, News, Hawaii

  "Obama Answers Birthers By Showing His Certificate". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. April 27, 2011.

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• The Republican Party does not reach out.

  Charles Evers

  Stars, Party, Doe

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• I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

  Charles Evers

  Party, Needs, Like Me

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• It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

  Timothy Thomas Fortune

  Government, Safe, Reason

  Timothy Thomas Fortune (1884). “Black and White: Land, Labor, and Politics in the South”

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• I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.

  Austan Goolsbee

  Believe, People, Political

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• Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Party, Tea, Pumpkin

  "What James Carville doesn't get about Republicans" By Ari Fleischer, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2012.

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• 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.

  John Conyers

  Years, Opposites, Pell Grants

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• A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Education, Men

  "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit".

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• The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Leadership, Women, Independent

  Phyllis Schlafly (1967). “Safe--not sorry”, Pere Marquette Pr

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• There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Funny, Humorous, Party

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• You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, Order, America

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• The Republican tax cut threatens to undercut both veterans health care and the veterans educational benefits that have been recognized for decades as not only the long-standing obligation of the Nation to its veterans, but also as the best recruiting incentives we can offer to keep our armed forces strong and sharp.

  Lane Evans

  Strong, Educational, Cutting

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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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• All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

  Bill Griffith

  Meat, Life Is, Blur

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• This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

  Jim Cooper

  Jobs, Congress

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• In his study of Atlanta over the last 60 years, Kevin Kruse convincingly describes the critical connections between race, Sun Belt suburbanization, the rise of the new Republican majority. White Flight is a powerful and compelling book that should be read by anyone interested in modern American politics and post-World War II urban history.

  Dan Carter

  Powerful, War, Book

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• 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

  Too Much, Sticks, Happens

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• To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys.... Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.

  Jedidiah Morse

  Fall, Blessing, Government

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• Republicans are no longer allowed to say that people are rich. You have to refer to them as "job creator." You can't even use the word rich. You have to say, "This chocolate cake is so moist and job creator."

  Jon Stewart

  Jobs, Cake, People

  "'This Week' Transcript: Timothy Geithner". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2011.

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• I'm trying to sum up President Obama's first 11 months in office. He gave billions to Wall Street, cracked down on illegal immigrants getting health care, and he's sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan. You know something, he may go down in history as our greatest Republican president ever.

  Jay Leno

  Wall, Office, Trying

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• Why do all Republicans need Lego hair?

  Cenk Uygur

  Hair, Needs, Legos

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• I find it ironic that Republicans have such disdain for the lazy, and yet their solution to every problem is do nothing. Their answer to wealth inequality, do nothing. Health care? Do nothing. Climate change? Nothing. Racism? Doesn’t exist. For a group of people so head over heels in love with self-reliance, they sure do recommend a lot of sitting on their ass.

  Bill Maher

  Self, Racism, People

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• First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

  Marty Meehan

  Oil, House, Favors

  "Hardball" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. April 25, 2006.

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• Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

  Margaret Carlson

  Running, Iraq, Waste

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