Best 753 quotes in «republican quotes» category

I was brought up as a Republican. But when I realized that at the end of the day there wasn't much difference between a Democrat and Republican, I became a libertarian.

I was "Never Trump." But it turned out never republican was really the theme of this election.

I was raised in Washington, DC in a household where one parent was a Republican and the other was a Democrat, so I got both sides.

I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.

I was the last Republican lieutenant governor and it's been over 20 years.

I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.

I will look for a candidate, Republican or Democrat, who seems to be on the way or understands how to resolve the economic difficulties we're having, how to do something about unemployment, how to make sure that we free up our businesses and we don't over-regulate ourselves.

I will not leave the Republican Party, ... The Republican Party is my home.

I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.

I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.

I wonder if it's possible to be a Republican and a Christian at the same time.

I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

I would have been a Republican, if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.

I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I sort of believe that too.

John McCain said that Sarah Palin is still a force in the Republican Party. Then he got in his car and backed over his mailbox.

Jeb Bush was supposed to be the establishment candidate, but he didn't catch on. And the extraordinary thing about this Republican primary is that the establishment, moderate wing of the party has sidelined itself. They're not coalescing around one candidate as they have in the past.

John Kerry had surgery on his right shoulder this week to repair some damage. It was pretty bad, he had no feeling. It was almost like he was a Republican.

[John] McCain has never ripped into [Barack] Obama the way he rips into [Donald] Trump or other Republicans.

Join the Republican party if you cannot abide Democrats. You will probably loathe Republicans just as much, but there are fewer of them.

Latins for Republicans. It's like roaches for Raid.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.

Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America.

Libertarians love their children at least as much as the Democrats and the Republicans, probably more.

Let me put it very plainly, if we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished.

Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly.

Liberals say this over and over and over again to hide the actual history, which is why I go through the specifics on the big segregationists in the United States Senate, the ones who signed the Southern Manifesto and the ones who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. There's a panoply of issues to consider. The first time they objected to the Federal government doing something was when it came to civil rights legislation. This is in stark contrast to the very few Republicans who voted against the '64 Civil Rights Act.

Many presidents - and they're not all Republicans - they're just determined to take apart this behemoth that's the administrative state. And probably the most famous one is Ronald Reagan.

Many militarists would like to see California's votes vanish from the national electoral system, which would then become more Republican.

Many Republicans have what I call a 'tax-cut syndrome' where they have never seen a tax cut they didn't really like and didn't see a tax increase they didn't hate and do everything they could to block.

Maybe Governor Romney in the spirit of openness should tell us how much money he's made off of how many households that have been foreclosed by his investments.

Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them.

Medical malpractice - that's a great issue for Republicans and you didn't hear anyone talk about it.

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

Michele Bachmann... I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it.... Tutti-frutti. I know I'm going to get in trouble!

"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.

Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values.

Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, sort of the three big hitters on the Republican side.

Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low.

My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.

My biggest concern is trying to keep crazy Republicans out of office.

Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.

My job isn't to represent the Democrat Party or the Republican Party. It's to represent Hoosier families.

My policy is I will help any policymaker who asks, whether they be a Republican or a Democrat.

My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.

My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously.