Republican Quotes - Page 2

• I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Party, Black

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• I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

  Frederick Douglass

  Party, Men, Anchors

  Frederick Douglass' letter to men from Petersburg, Virginia (in the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress), August 15, 1888.

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• You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

  Colin Powell

  Party, Believe, Thinking

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• What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

  John McCain

  Silly, Might, Conservative

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• Our gays are more macho than their straights.

  Ann Coulter

  Stupid, Gay, Macho

  Ann Coulter (2007). “If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans”, p.115, Crown Forum

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• From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.

  Rick Perry

  Stupid, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling

  "Perry: Oil spill may be 'act of God'". Rick Perry's speech at the Chamber of Commerce in Washington, www.politico.com. May 3, 2010.

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• We need a leader, not a reader.

  Herman Cain

  Stupid, Leader, Needs

  "Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. November 20, 2011.

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• How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

  Will Durst

  Sex, Humorous, Dirty

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• Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Conservative, Democrat, Anti Conservative

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• A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be more cheerful, imaginative, tolerant of dissent, and skillful at the game of give-and-take. A gathering of Republicans is more respectable, sober, purposeful, and businesslike than a gathering of Democrats; it is also likely to be more self-righteous, pompous, cut-and-dried, and just plain boring.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Cutting, Self, Games

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• Our freedom must be had at all hazards. If the men of property will not help us they must fall; we will free ourselves by the aid of that large and respectable class of the community - the men of no property.

  Wolfe Tone

  Fall, Men, Class

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• Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Government, Growth

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• I hope you're all Republicans.

  Ronald Reagan

  Bad Ass, Ass

  Ronald Reagan, Bill Adler (1981). “The Reagan wit”, Jameson Books

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• The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Platforms, Bailing Out

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• The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

  James Madison

  Rights, Government, Fundamentals

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.243

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• The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

  Herbert Spencer

  Nature, Thinking, Government

  'Essays' (1891) vol. 3 'The Americans'

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• Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

  Michele Bachmann

  Stupid, Silly, Environmental

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

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• If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Stupid, Humor, Political

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• When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Silly, Mean, Political

  Television interview by David Frost, 19 May 1977

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• What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

  Dan Quayle

  Stupid, Lost Ones, Mind

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• When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Party, Government

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

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• When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining.

  Glenn Beck

  Stupid, Silly, Sick

  "Fox News' rabid propagandist Glenn Beck has lured me to America". www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.

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• This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.

  George W. Bush

  Stupid, Silly, Littles

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• I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Stupid, Silly, Past

  "Text: Rumsfeld's News Briefing". www.nytimes.com. April 3, 2003.

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• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

  Virginia Foxx

  Stupid, Silly, Fools Day

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 6, 2009.

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