Republican Quotes - Page 39

• Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Kings, Mirrors, Years

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.158, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.

  Mark Hatfield

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• The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare.

  Steve Rothman

  Years, Lasts, Ends

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• Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Years, Broken, Giving

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• Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have no clear plan to strengthen our economy, as Republicans do.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Recovery, Successful, Reform

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• For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Dream, Government, Liberty

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• His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an ad noting that in Congress he opposed the Reagan budget cuts. He says that because Bill Bradley was one of 36 Democratic Senators who voted for the cuts. Gore doesn’t point out that Bradley also voted against the popular Reagan tax cuts and that it was the tax cuts that piled up those enormous deficits, a snowballing national debt.

  Bruce Morton

  Cutting, Debt, Bills

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• 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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• You can stick a fork in Barack Obama. Politically, he's done. The main way we can screw this up is if we choose the wrong Republican.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Political, Done, Way

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• Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

  Jill Lepore

  Choices, Democrat, Late

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• 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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• I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

  Charles Evers

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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• The Republican Party does not reach out.

  Charles Evers

  Stars, Party, Doe

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• So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

  Charles Evers

  Party, Reason, Democratic

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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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• The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.

  Charles Evers

  Country, Party, Done

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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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• But I think the - what the tea party movement demonstrates, and I think the, the, the enthusiasm that we're seeing from independents and Republicans, is that if Washington isn't going to change itself, then we're going to change Washington. And I think that's what we're seeing.

  John Cornyn

  Party, Thinking, Tea

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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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• 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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• 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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• It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

  Paul Begala

  Song, America, Beloved

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