Republican Quotes - Page 23

• If the Republicans think that by having stated and even achieved most of the Contract that they are therefore entitled to the acceptance and favor of the American voter, they're crazy.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Crazy, Acceptance, Thinking

  "Ted McGinley reflects on faith, the meaning of the Cross and playing a pastor in 'Do You Believe?'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.ff.org.

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• I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.

  Ken Mehlman

  Issues, Community, Presidential

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• Republicans are being counseled to move the party to the left, but in my experience, those who advocate more liberal policies for the GOP are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both.

  Liz Cheney

  Party, Moving, Democrat

  "Liz Cheney: Obama 'most radical' ever in Oval Office" by Ashley Killough, politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com. March 29, 2013.

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• Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

  Caleb Cushing

  Government, People, Gentleman

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• I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.

  Matt Stone

  Important, World, Want

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

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• Why wouldn't we consider doing to Islamic extremists what Glenn Greenwald does routinely to Republicans?

  Stewart Baker

  Islamic, Doe, Extremist

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• Newt Gingrich's job to capture the Congress was to give Republican candidates an edge and a distinction from their Democratic opponent. That required a very high profile, some very strong language.

  Pete du Pont

  Strong, Jobs, Giving

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• You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if you’re a liberal, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a conservative. You still have to do math.

  Dave Ramsey

  Math, Conservative, Democrat

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• The Ryan plan isn't a budget. It's the last will and testament of the Republican party.

  David Stockman

  Party, Lasts, Testament

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• Low unemployment numbers are clear indicators that Republican tax relief and economic policies are spurring growth and helping businesses hire new workers while providing American families with job security.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Jobs, Numbers, Growth

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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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• I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

  Marion Barry

  Law, Stories, Slavery

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• Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Cutting, America, Illustration

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• If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats.

  Chauncey Depew

  Lying, Party, Promise

  "If Elected I Promise: Stories and Gems of Wisdom by and About Politicians". Book by John F. Parker, 1969.

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• A Black man voting for the Republicans makes about as much sense as a chicken voting for Col. Sanders.

  J. C. Watts

  Men, Voting, Black

  "Foreign trip, domestic gamble" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2003.

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• I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can’t be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed.

  Thomas DiLorenzo

  Party, America, Roots

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• In this day and age, where the Democrat and Republican parties are no longer the voice of Main Street, but the puppets of Wall Street, it is natural that a Third Party should appear to champion the traditionally conservative proposition that the Constitution is the blueprint for the operation of the government of the United States.

  Gatewood Galbraith

  Wall, Party, Government

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• Republicans know well that a change of rhetorical pace is necessary. But efforts by their leaders to damp down the bellicosity of newly elected Tea Party types is running into the fact that the Tea Partiers have only the high volume setting on their amplifiers, just like Palin. They're like a couple having a fight at a funeral; politely sotto voce, then suddenly bursting out fortissimo with their plaints and accusations.

  Alexander Cockburn

  Running, Couple, Party

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• I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Party, I Realized, Republican Party

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• The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Country, Design, Debt

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• Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren't picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem

  Herman Cain

  Identity, Loyal, Voters

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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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• Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they cry out for reform, for a quicker process, they're really calling for a restriction of the rights of people to be involved in the planning process.

  Daniel Kammen

  Rights, Law, People

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• In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse, but, what few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all its bad qualities.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Men, Knowing, Wife

  Statement to John Dickinson, May 23, 1803.

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• Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

  Bruce Sterling

  Silly, Vegas, Gambling

  "Greetings from Burning Man!". www.wired.com. November 01, 1996.

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