Republican Party Quotes

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Respect, Party, Past

  "Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson".

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• The Republican Party seems unwilling and unable to offer solutions to the crises we are facing, other than pitching the same failed ideas that got us into the mess we are in the first place.

  Arianna Huffington

  Party, Ideas, Pitching

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• When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader.

  Harry S. Truman

  Leadership, Party, Government

  "The Wit & Wisdom of Harry Truman".

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• The thing to remember is that Donald Trump didn't rescue the Republican Party, he crushed the Republican Party. The Republican Party was so weak that an outsider came along and just wiped it out.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Party, Outsiders, Remember

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• The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

  Glenn Danzig

  Party, People, Trying

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• I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

  Frederick Douglass

  Party, Men, Anchors

  Frederick Douglass' letter to men from Petersburg, Virginia (in the Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress), August 15, 1888.

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• Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Party, Tea, Republican

  "What James Carville doesn't get about Republicans" By Ari Fleischer, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2012.

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• I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

  Jesse Ventura

  Business, Party, Believe

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.15, Villard

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• I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements of which the Republican party was composed gave better ground for the ultimate hope of the success of the colored mans cause than those of the Democratic party.

  Frederick Douglass

  Party, Elements, Causes

  Frederick Douglass (2012). “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass”, p.407, Courier Corporation

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• You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

  Colin Powell

  Party, Believe, Thinking

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• Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.

  Barry Goldwater

  Christian, Religious, Party

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• We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

  Malcolm X

  Party, Men, Black

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'

  Johnny Depp

  Party, Airplane, Actors

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• I didn't leave the Democratic party; the Democratic party left me.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Party, Cold

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• I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Freedom, Party, Black

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

  Charlie Crist

  Party, Republican, Left

  Charlie Crist, Ellis Henican (2014). “The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat”, p.6, Penguin

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• The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

  Will Rogers

  Prayer, Humorous, Party

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Boys, Thinking

  Newt Gingrich's Address to the College Republicans at the Atlanta Airport Holiday Inn, www.pbs.org. June 24, 1978.

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• There is a study that shows that people who were asked their political opinions, when there was a picture of the American flag in the corner of the questionnaire, reported more favorable attitudes toward Republican Party positions, because the flag is typically associated in people's minds with a Republican belief set. If people vote at a polling place inside a church, they vote more Republican. If they vote at a polling place inside a school, they vote more Democrat.

  Robert Cialdini

  Attitude, Party, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.

  Steven Weber

  Party, Reality, Numbers

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Party, Gun, Atheism

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• Together, we will lead the Republican party back to the White House and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity and peace.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Party, White

  Source: time.com

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• I shall work for the Republican party and call on all women to join me, precisely... for what that party has done and promises to do for women, nothing more, nothing less.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Party, Promise, Done

  Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Autumn 1872.

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• The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn't make it up. It's in the Constitution. I think it's just as important as any of the other rights in our constitution.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Thinking, Rights

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• The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor.

  Harry S. Truman

  Party, Knives, Sticks

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