Republican Quotes - Page 15

• My working poor parents told me that I could do better. They taught me that I was as good as anybody else. And it never occurred to them to tell me that I could just rest comfortably and wait for good old Uncle Sugar to feed me, lead me and then bleed me.

  Mike Huckabee

  Uncles, Waiting, Parent

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• Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Jobs, People, Looks

  Transcript for Tim Pawlenty on Obama: Many 'Have Failed at Their First Job', abcnews.go.com.

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• Well I'm sure now that the press is going to tell you (Mitt Romney) isn't perfect. Now my friends for the past four years, we've tried the one that the press thought was perfect and that hasn't worked out all that well for us.

  Mike Huckabee

  Past, Years, Perfect

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• The EPA is now the Employment Prevention Agency.

  Bob McDonnell

  Agency, Employment, Prevention

  Bob McDonnell RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

  Rick Santorum

  Government, Benefits, Politics

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• The Democrats say we ought to give Barack Obama credit for trying. That sounds like the nonsense of giving every kid a trophy for showing up.
  
  Friends, we're talking about leading the country, not playing on a third-grade soccer team!
  
  I realize this is the man who got a Nobel Peace Prize for what he would potentially do, but in the real world, you get the prize for producing something, not just promising it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Soccer, Country, Real

  Mike Huckabee's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I don't believe man-made global warming is settled in science enough.

  Rick Perry

  Believe, Men, Global Warming

  "Rick Perry Repeats Climate Change Skepticism: ‘I’m Not Afraid’". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2011.

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• I don't know the science behind climate change. I can't say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it's man-made or not. I've heard arguments from both sides, but I do believe in protecting our environment, but without the job killing regulations that are coming out of the Environmental Protection Agency.

  Joni Ernst

  Jobs, Believe, Men

  "Braley, Ernst tear into each other" by James Hohmann, www.politico.com. August 28, 2014.

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• For everybody who thinks it's warming, I can find somebody who thinks it isn't.

  Mitch McConnell

  Thinking, Climate Change, I Can

  "Mitch McConnell: Congress Won’t Make ‘A Lot Of Big Important Things’ Happen This Year" By Samantha Lachman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2014.

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• There is scientific evidence that demonstrates there is some impact from human activities. However I don't think the evidence is conclusive.

  Kelly Ayotte

  Thinking, Impact, Climate Change

  "Ayotte wants budget cuts" by Deborah McDermott, www.seacoastonline.com. September 30, 2010.

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• The English government having determined not to respect my rights as a French citizen and officer, and summoned me before a court martial, I have been sentenced to death. I have served the Republic faithfully, and my death, as well as that of my brother, a victim like myself, and condemned in the same manner about a month ago, will sufficiently prove it. I have sacrificed for the Republic all that man holds dear - my wife, my children, my liberty, my life.

  Wolfe Tone

  Brother, Children, Men

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• 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

  Michael Davitt

  Done, Privilege, Common

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• We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times.

  James Connolly

  Believe, Normal, Action

  James Connolly, Peter Berresford-Ellis (1988). “James Connolly: Selected Writings”, p.45, Pluto Press

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• Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire; this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us.

  Patrick Pearse

  Wise, People, Inspire

  "The Murder Machine". Book by Patrick Pearse, 1976.

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• We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

  Patrick Pearse

  Fighting, Winning, Past

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• You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win it by a better deed.

  Patrick Pearse

  Children, Passion, Winning

  Patrick Pearse at his court-martial, publish by the 75th Anniversary Committee, Dublin, 1991.

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• As long as Ireland is unfree the only honourable attitude for Irish men, women to have is an attitude of rebellion.

  Patrick Pearse

  Attitude, Men, Long

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• The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free.

  Liam Mellows

  Sacrifice, Race, Principles

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• If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

  Eamon de Valera

  Liberty, Ifs

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• It is a revolution that came to power with its own army and on the ruins of the army of oppression.

  Che Guevara

  Army, Ruins, Revolution

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• I'll wear no convicts uniform nor meekly serve my time that Britain might brand Irelands fight 800 years of crime.

  Bobby Sands

  Fighting, Years, Might

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• Gay marriage is probably the biggest issue that will impact our state and our nation in the last, at least, thirty years. I AM NOT UNDERSTATING THAT.

  Michele Bachmann

  Gay, Impact, Years

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• THESE ARE BEAUTIFUL PROPERTIES with basketball courts, bathroom facilities, toilet facilities. Many young people would love to get the hell out of cities

  Carl Paladino

  Basketball, Beautiful, Cities

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

  Michele Bachmann

  Slavery, Founders, Stupid Conservative

  "Bachmann: Founding fathers ‘worked tirelessly’ to end slavery" by Sahil Kapur, www.rawstory.com. January 25, 2011.

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• The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  War, Stupid, Amusing

  "Rumsfeld: ˜The Implication That There Was Something Wrong with the War Plan is Amusing" by Judd Legum, thinkprogress.org. April 20, 2006.

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