Republican Quotes - Page 40

• A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Education, Men

  "Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit".

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• The urgent need today is to develop and support leaders on every level of government who are independent of the bossism of every political machine - the big-city machine, the liberal Democrat machine, and the Republican kingmaker machine.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Leadership, Women, Independent

  Phyllis Schlafly (1967). “Safe--not sorry”, Pere Marquette Pr

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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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• You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, Order, America

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• The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

  Gerry Adams

  Winning, Way Forward, Hymns

  Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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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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• I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

  John Perry Barlow

  Niece, Mean, Looks

  "John Perry Barlow: Wyoming's Estimated Prophet". Interview with Aaron Davis, July 28, 2005.

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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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• All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

  Bill Griffith

  Meat, Life Is, Blur

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• This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

  Jim Cooper

  Jobs, Congress

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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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• With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what [left-leaning songwriter] Steve Earle has to say.

  David Fricke

  Song, Art, Ostriches

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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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• 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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• Democrats, independents, Republicans, all of us Americans who love our country. What a wonderful time to come together and really just count our blessings. And to remember those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for us and for this country and all those freedoms we love.

  Robert Hurt

  Country, Sacrifice, Blessing

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• Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos.

  Stephen Colbert

  Hard Work, Needs, Vote

  "Stephen Colbert Mocks Mitt Romney’s ‘Latino Problem", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 5, 2012.

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• To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys.... Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them.

  Jedidiah Morse

  Fall, Blessing, Government

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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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• The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus.

  Jude Wanniski

  Party, Play, Santa

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• Republicans are no longer allowed to say that people are rich. You have to refer to them as "job creator." You can't even use the word rich. You have to say, "This chocolate cake is so moist and job creator."

  Jon Stewart

  Jobs, Cake, People

  "'This Week' Transcript: Timothy Geithner". "This Week" with Christiane Amanpour, abcnews.go.com. July 24, 2011.

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