Best 753 quotes in «republican quotes» category

T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

The truth is that America has been closely divided politically for quite some time. That was reflected in some of the challenges I had with the Republican Congress.

The very founders that wrote those documents worked tirelessly until slavery was no more.

The voter is basically dumb and lazy. The reason I became a Democratic operative instead of a Republican was because there were more Democrats that didn’t have a clue than there were Republicans.

The Washington Post said that 50% of the contributors of the Republican Party were Jewish and 70% of the Democratic Party. That's 2% and they control America.

The whole Republican establishment has united to destroy his bid to be the nominee of the Republican Party.

They have done their worst, and continued to deny me even the privileges accorded to the common herd . . . but I am sustained by the consciousness of my imputed 'crime' being an honourable one

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

[Trade] was clearly a factor.That was a complete reversal of where things are normally at. Usually Republicans are all for free trade.

This country is never going to move forward unless we end Republican rule in the House and Senate.

This is a guy [Michael Flynn] who stood up at the Republican convention and reveled in the chants of "lock her up" about Hillary Clinton.

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

This Republican Kevin McCarthy makes Hillary [Clinton] the victim.

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch.

To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Too many Americans live by Republican principles of faith, family, hope and opportunity, but vote for Democrats out of sheer habit.

Traditionally, Young Republicans have been a leading indicator of the direction of the party.

To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

Today House Republicans are doing what they always do - using taxpayers' money to continue investigating claims that have already been debunked just to keep them in the headlines one more day.

Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.

Tsunamis don't always often last. And so, you know, once the tsunami of Trump has ridden across the land and caused its destruction to the Republican Party, at some point, if he doesn't get the presidency, then someone will have to step up and rebuild and come back with a optimistic Reaganite approach to the Party. But right now it looks like the tsunami is, is flying with full force.

Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.

Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.

Typically in politics it is easier for the left to mobilize against a Republican president than it is to mobilize against a Democratic president, even in the cases when the Republican president or Democratic president are pushing the same exact thing.

Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.

Very many and very meritorious were the worthy patriots who assisted in bringing back our government to its republican tack. To preserve it in that, will require unremitting vigilance.

Unless you work at the Republican National Committee or some other conservatively affiliated organization, people's personal political preferences should not be a criterion for employment or comfort in the workplace.

Walt Shaub is a dedicated public servant, has come up through the ranks under both Democrats and Republicans.

Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.

[Walt Shaub] is cleared more than 50 percent of the nominations, Republican nominations that have been provided to him so far, versus 20 percent at this point in the [Barack] Obama transition which I worked on.

We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans alike....We voted for the people who voted for it, and then voted for the people who reauthorized it, then voted for the people who re-re-authorize d it.

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.

We as Republicans have taken the easy way out a lot of times.

We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

We are seeing Republicans uniting behind this [presidential] campaign [2016].

We have 31 Republican governors in this country. We have roughly the same number of Republican legislatures.

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

We have seen that the tendency of republican governments is to an aggrandizement of the legislative at the expense of the other departments. The appeals to the people, therefore, would usually be made by the executive and judiciary departments.

We have to be on offense against terrorists, that we have to make it bipartisan, that it isn't about being a Democrat or a Republican. It's about being an American.

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

Well of course Bush got Kentucky, because it's a Republican city.

Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.

Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.

We need Democrats and Republicans in Congress to work together to fashion a very comprehensive pushback to Russia, not just the cyber-hacking, but their bribery of officials in Europe, their social media campaign, their overt media campaign.

We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.