Republican Quotes - Page 15

• Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.

  Charles Evers

  Black, Headquarters

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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'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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• The Republican Party is not inclusive.

  Charles Evers

  Party, Republican Party

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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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• 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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• ...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Perfect, Insanity

  Christian Science bk. 1, ch. 5 (1907)

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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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• Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Creativity, Responsibility

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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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• 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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• 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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• Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election

  Michael Reagan

  Party, Winning, Pennsylvania

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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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• What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  Race, Vision, Als

  "Strong kickoffs by Bush, Gore leave other hopefuls scrambling" by Beth Fouhy, www.cnn.com. June 20, 1999.

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• A couple of years ago, a Republican committee staff director told me candidly (and proudly) what the method was to all this obstruction and disruption. Should Republicans succeed in obstructing the Senate from doing its job, it would further lower Congress’s generic favorability rating among the American people. By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.

  Mike Lofgren

  Jobs, Couple, Party

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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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• 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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• At the same time, Republicans are pushing a $70 billion tax package that will overwhelmingly benefit the most wealthy Americans and actually increases the deficit by $16 billion.

  Marty Meehan

  Benefits, Pushing, Increase

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• Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

  Ernestine Rose

  Principles, Half, Slavery

  Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Welcome delegates to the 2012 Republican Convention! Remember to set your watches back 400 years.

  Andy Borowitz

  Years, Watches, Welcome

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Aug 28, 2012

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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, Guides

  FaceBook post by Andy Borowitz from Sep 21, 2011

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

  Randy Cohen

  Party, Knows, Ifs

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• One of the things about Herman Cain is, I think that he makes that white Republican base of the party feel okay, feel like they are not racist because they can like this guy. I think he giving that base a free pass. And I think they like him because they think he's a black man who knows his place. And I know that's harsh, but that's how it sure seems to me.

  Karen Finney

  Party, Men, Thinking

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