Republican Quotes - Page 8

• Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record

  Barbara Boxer

  Records, Earth, Facts

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• Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.

  Tim Kaine

  Rights, Race, Doe

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• It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong.

  Molly Ivins

  Party, Two, Differences

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• People ask me, "What are you going to do to develop jobs in your state?" Well, that's not my job as a US senator...

  Sharron Angle

  Jobs, People, Tea Party

  YouTube Chanel "Harry Reid"/ "Angle: Unemployed are 'Spoiled'; It's not my job to fight for Nevadans' jobs", www.youtube.com. June 18, 2010.

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• They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.

  Sharron Angle

  Tired, People, Calling

  "GOP Senate hopeful Sharron Angle is counting on conservative credentials" by Laura Myers, www.reviewjournal.com. March 20, 2010.

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• There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.

  Paul Wellstone

  Party, Sound, Want

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• Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

  Roscoe Conkling

  Country, New York, Party

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• But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.

  Gerry Adams

  Strong, Views, Example

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

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• Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

  James Connolly

  Fighting, Class, Remains

  James Connolly (1971). “Labour in Irish History”, p.27, Lulu.com

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• All these mountains of Irish dead, all these corpses mangled beyond recognition, all these arms, legs, eyes, ears, fingers, toes, hands, all these shivering putrefying bodies and portions of bodies once warm living and tender parts of Irish men and youths - all these horrors in Flanders or the Gallipoli Peninsula, are all items in the price Ireland pays for being part of the British Empire.

  James Connolly

  Eye, Men, Hands

  James Connolly (1988). “Collected Works: Labour and Easter Week”

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• Apostles of Freedom are ever idolised when dead, but crucified when alive.

  James Connolly

  Alive, Apostles

  James Connolly (1973). “Quotations from James Connolly: An Anthology in Parts”

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• Unlike the Reagan and Bush Administrations, with but one exception, the Clinton administration failed to reach out to Republicans in creating a new team, and eventually paid a political price.

  Richard V. Allen

  Team, Creating, Political

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• And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Dream, Party, Ideas

  "Our outsourced lives". Interview with Alyssa Figueroa, Don Hazen, www.salon.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos

  Donella Meadows

  Party, Wings, Oil

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• There is only one candidate in this election who can universally mobilize conservatives, and as evident from the variety of primary victors, none of them is a Republican. It's Hillary Clinton.

  Matt Labash

  Election, Clinton, Primaries

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• Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

  Michael Medved

  Pain, Winning, California

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• I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

  Fred Thompson

  Thinking, Justice, Way

  "Choosing a New Supreme Court Justice". "Special Report" with Brit Hume, www.foxnews.com. July 6, 2005.

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• I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

  David Frum

  Party, Support, Frightened

  "At National Review, a Threat to Its Reputation for Erudition" by Tim Arango, www.nytimes.com. November 16, 2008.

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• Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.

  Tom Coburn

  Country, Party, Responsibility

  "For Republicans, the Moment for Reform Has Arrived" by Tom Coburn, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 24, 2010.

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• A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.

  Benjamin Rush

  Christian, Failing

  Benjamin Rush (1806). “Essays, Literary, Moral and Philosophical ...”, p.8

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• It's insanity for a party that believes in freedom to allow some Republicans to seize an agenda that is totally alien to the agenda that was established in the election.

  Malcolm Wallop

  Party, Believe, Insanity

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• Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

  Malcolm Wallop

  President, Doctrine, Architecture

  "[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'Frontier Freedom'". Interview with Rick Henderson, www.ff.org. December 21, 2012.

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• Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.

  Garet Garrett

  Government, Hands, People

  "The people's pottage".

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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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