Republican Quotes - Page 18

• Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Jobs, People, Looks

  Transcript for Tim Pawlenty on Obama: Many 'Have Failed at Their First Job', abcnews.go.com.

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• The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency.

  Bob McDonnell

  Agency, Employment, Prevention

  Bob McDonnell RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

  Rick Santorum

  Government, Benefits, Politics

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• I don't know the science behind climate change. I can't say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it's man-made or not. I've heard arguments from both sides, but I do believe in protecting our environment, but without the job killing regulations that are coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency.

  Joni Ernst

  Jobs, Believe, Men

  "Braley, Ernst tear into each other" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. August 28, 2014.

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• Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

  Sherrod Brown

  College, Years, Broken

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• Within twenty years, he was the world's biggest movie star, the husband of Maria Shriver, and an emerging Republican leader who was part of the Kennedy family.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Stars, Husband, Kennedy Family

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• Every Republican that I know of ran on the full repeal of Obamacare...The voters have spoken.

  Steve King

  Obamacare, Voters, Ran

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• As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

  Patrick Pearse

  Attitude, Men, Long

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• The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.

  Liam Mellows

  Sacrifice, Race, Principles

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• I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime.

  Bobby Sands

  Fighting, Years, Might

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• THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities

  Carl Paladino

  Basketball, Beautiful, Cities

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• The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.

  Michele Bachmann

  Slavery, Founders, Stupid Conservative

  "Bachmann: Founding fathers ‘worked tirelessly’ to end slavery" by Sahil Kapur, www.rawstory.com. January 25, 2011.

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• I think Republicans need to take income inequality more seriously. Not because I favor equality of outcomes. I do not. I think the Right is correct to stress merit and earned rewards, not handouts and forced equality. But I think what Republicans are blind to is that power corrupts.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Stress, Thinking, Income

  "Interview: Jonathan Haidt on Social Conservatives, New Atheists and Civility in Politics". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the ‘Normandy Invasion’ or ‘fall of the Berlin Wall’ of our generation...the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there.

  Pete Hegseth

  Wall, Believe, Fall

  "Meet Kagan’s Astroturf Military Attackers" by Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. June 30, 2010.

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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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• It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.

  Alan Keyes

  Stupid, Thinking, Neighborhood

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• 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

  Communication, Thinking, Tanks

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• It's no surprise I am addicted to all the Republican presidential candidates. They are like crack -- in that they will devastate black communities.

  Stephen Colbert

  Community, Presidential, Black

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• The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Stupid, Amusing

  "Rumsfeld: ˜The Implication That There Was Something Wrong with the War Plan is Amusing" by Judd Legum, thinkprogress.org. April 20, 2006.

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• Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by the government. Republicans believe people are basically bad but they'll be okay if they're left alone.

  Andy Rooney

  Believe, Government, People

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• A petition to have Justin Bieber deported got over 100,000 signatures, which means the White House now has to legally rule on it. So finally a chance for Obama to issue an executive order that both Republicans and Democrats can agree on.

  Jay Leno

  Mean, Order, White

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• Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

  Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

  Country, War, Party

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• And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century.

  Robert Reich

  America, Government, House

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• Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but
  whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Acting, Stories

  "Random Thoughts" by Thomas Sowell, townhall.com. August 26, 2008.

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• It doesn't make sense. [Republicans are] not for us. You're not for my values. We're working class people mostly and blue collar. We're your cops, we're your firemen, we're your carpenters and the things we need - we need to protect our unions, we need to protect our Medicare, we need to protect the working class person.

  John Leguizamo

  Blue, Class, People

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