Republican Party Quotes - Page 17

• [The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power as an insult to the reason and an outrage to the rights of men, are naturally offended at every public measure that does not appeal to the understanding and to the general interest of the community.

  James Madison

  Hate, Party, Believe

  James Madison (1867). “1829-1836”, p.482

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• Good government cannot be found on the bargain-counter. We have seen samples of bargain-counter government in the past when low tax rates were secured by increasing the bonded debt for current expenses or refusing to keep our institutions up to the standard in repairs, extensions, equipment, and accommodations. I refuse, and the Republican Party refuses, to endorse that method of sham and shoddy economy.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Party, Past, Government

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• The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored people is one which, however it might be received in some other quarters, could not possibly be permitted by one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Taken, Party, Responsibility

  Letter to Charles F. Gardner, August 9, 1924.

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• If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Believe, Struggle, Party

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• I think Mitt Romney is a symptom. I think the problem is the Republican Party.

  Bill Maher

  Party, Thinking, Problem

  "Maher: Mitt Romney Is A Symptom; The Problem Is The Republican Party". www.realclearpolitics.com. September 22, 2012.

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• Gingrich was a far more volatile and aggressive individual than Boehner, but the institutional norms of self-restraint, and perhaps even self-interest, have broken down under the pressure of an increasingly abnormal Republican Party.

  George Packer

  Party, Self, Broken

  "Darkness in Washington" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Party, Two, America

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, there's a bright side to this for Ken Lay. You know, throughout the years Ken Lay has been a big campaign contributor to the Republican Party. So now, he'll be able to meet with those same people when he goes to prison.

  Jay Leno

  Party, Years, People

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• I think we'll have a bigger conversation first within the Republican Party, then with the American people about what's the proper role of the federal government, i do hope that Common Core will be one more, one more reason for us to have this bigger debate, this bigger conversation about the proper role of the federal government in local education.

  Bobby Jindal

  Education, Party, Thinking

  "Common Core fight a larger battle over the size of government" by Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2015.

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• Certainly the Republican Party changed and I never changed, as I became an independent my values never changed whether it's on fiscal responsibility, environment or using government tools to help the less fortunate.

  Lincoln Chafee

  Party, Independent, Responsibility

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• I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

  Bob Herbert

  Party, Thinking, Looks

  "Bob Herbert and Reihan Salam on What the 2012 Election Reveals About America". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. November 9, 2012.

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• Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. At this point we're talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering upon the already miserable.

  Paul Krugman

  Party, Talking, Soul

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• If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has done far more to repulse me than the Democratic Party has done to appeal to me. But the result in the voting booth would be about the same either way.

  Kevin Drum

  Party, Voting, Would Be

  "In Politics, Hate > Love" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 27, 2015.

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• It's time ... the Republican Party end the war on women they started. Whether it's the Blunt-Rubio amendment, personhood or attempts to repeal Roe v. Wade, we aren't going to let extremist politicians dictate to women what we can or cannot do with our bodies.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  War, Party, Wade

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• Gingrich is the "foremost intellectual" in the Republican party like Gene Simmons is the foremost intellectual in "Kiss".

  Bill Maher

  Party, Kissing, Intellectual

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• The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement.

  Elbert Guillory

  Party, Movement, Republican

  "‘Free at Last’: La. State Senator Explains Why He Recently Left the ‘Government Plantation’ & Joined GOP in Powerful Video". www.theblaze.com. June 18, 2013.

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• One of the problems with evangelicalism is that it has allowed itself to be married to the Republican party... Jesus is not a Republican. Nor is he a Democrat.

  Tony Campolo

  Jesus, Party, Married

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• I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

  Gordon Smith

  Party, Oregon, Wish

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• There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

  Michael Steele

  Struggle, Party, Fighting

  "Countdown to Election Day; Miners Tell Their Tale; Barbara Billingsley Dies at 94; President and First Lady Campaigning". "CNN Newsroom", edition.cnn.com. October 17, 2010.

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• Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

  Michael Steele

  Party, Struggle, Rights

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• I'm not a typical Republican. I am a Republican, I wear the Republican jersey, I've been a Republican my whole life. My dad was a Republican, which is interesting because he was in a union early on. The Republican party was very strong in the area that I grew up in. So I'm a loyalist.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  Strong, Dad, Party

  Source: gawker.com

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• Republican Party is the party that stands for the people who are trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home, who are trying to give their kids a better life. And the only way that's possible is through the America free enterprise system.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Kids, Home

  Source: alter.newsweek.msnbc.com

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• I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can't even find one.

  Marco Rubio

  Party, Blessed, Thinking

  Marco Rubio during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is were trying to do for families.

  Elizabeth Emken

  Party, Thinking, Talking

  "Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin". www.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

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

  Anthony

  Party, Republican, Democrat

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