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Government shutdowns do not actually become what the term implies. Two-thirds of the government cannot shut down. We're only talking about the third of government that's discretionary spending, and even at that, nobody loses their jobs, and nobody loses their Thanksgiving turkey. The whole thing has resulted from the Republican Party thinking they bought the farm back in 1995.

Governor Romney supported the bailout of Wall Street and decided not to support the bailout of Detroit.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

Have you seen these Republican presidential candidates? I bet Obama is sorry now that he spent all that money on the new birth certificate.

Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

He [Donald Trump] hasn`t shifted on a lot of the things that he had in common with his Republican opponents.

Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

Here is what we know after more than a decade of Republican rule: Texas works. Even 'The New York Times' let it slip into its pages that, 'Texas is the future.'

Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans.

He's not a bold decision maker like Newt Gingrich is. Every time I talk to him, he says 'well let me think about it.'

Hillary Clinton's ready to pivot to Asia and provoke China. So are the Republicans. It's on domestic issues that there will be a gridlock.

How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can’t be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed.

I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.

I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style.

I always wonder why Republicans hate gay marriage, because they certainly don't hate gay prostitutes.

I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

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

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.

I believe I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans. Am I either one? Absolutely not. Ladies and gentlemen, I am an American.

I am sure that every one of my colleagues "Democrat, Republican, and Independent" agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

I am still a Democrat. The main reason is because I don't like the Republican stance on some social values. Not that I disagree with all of them. I just don't think they have a right to impose it upon other people. I've been public about that.

I applaud the fact that the president has reached out to the members of Judiciary Committee. And I applaud... the fact that he has been meeting with members of the Judiciary Committee. He's been seeking out Republicans as well as Democrats.

I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

I believe in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment, thou shall not speak unfavorably of another Republican.

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.

I cringe every time I see no evidence of push-back by the Republican Party on Obama policies.

I don't necessarily support Romney, I don't consider myself a Republican. I'm pretty much an independent.

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

I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.

I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

I didn't leave the Republican Party. It left me.

I do feel like there`s this Republican Party establishment is in disarray. That`s the story that the Donald Trump surge seems to tell.

I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a lot of defenders. The idea that they're going to completely explode the deficit is just a party killer for the Republican parties.

I don't care if they're Republican liberals or Democrat liberals, they're still liberals. They're not 'moderates.' Don't hit me with that. There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise.

I don't 'support the troops' or any of those other hollow and hypocritical platitudes uttered by Republicans and frightened Democrats. Here's what I do support: I support them coming home. I support them being treated well.

I don't want Democrats in the boardroom and I don't want Republicans in the bedroom.

I don't think the Republican Party is against women.

If Abe Lincoln took part in the Republican debates, he would look out of place with his intelligence, compassion and gaping head wound.

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

If Donald Trump does lose, being revealed as this bizarre personality, Ted Cruz is not going to be what Republicans are looking for in 2020.

If [Donald] Trump drags down a bunch of Senate Republicans, the post-election GOP assessment will be much more pessimistic.