Republican Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

  Mary Bono

  Years, Fcc, Asking

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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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• Republicans in Congress boosted the economy by cutting taxes and ending programs that don't work.

  Zach Wamp

  Cutting, Economy, Program

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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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• While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Supportive, President, Voters

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• I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

  Joe Lando

  Honored

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• I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.

  Questlove

  Believe, Men, People

  "Interview: How Questlove Stays Occupied" by Aaron Ross, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  School, Diversity, Church

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• I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

  Sarah Winnemucca

  Race, Voice, Giving

  Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (2015). “The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891”, p.252, U of Nebraska Press

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• I was a Democrat before I was a Republican before I became an independent and I never changed my principles.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Independent, Funny Graduation, Principles

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• [The Republican plan will] make sure we bring down the cost of health care for all Americans and that ensures affordable access for all Americans and is pro-life because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.

  Virginia Foxx

  Senior, Government, Pro Life

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• The Children's Health Insurance Program has given Democrats a wide-open door for socialized medicine. The door was left open by Republicans, who were in the majority when we passed the original legislation in 1997.

  Jack Kingston

  Children, Doors, Medicine

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• I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight.

  Peter Brimelow

  School, Kids, Fighting

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

  Jill Lepore

  Choices, Democrat, Late

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