Republican Quotes - Page 17

• There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters are of that.

  Lamar Alexander

  War, Iraq, Numbers

  "News From CNN" with Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. November 16, 2004.

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• In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.... Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged.... Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Art, Citizens, Inquiry

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• The Constitution has been eviscerated while Democrats have stood by with nary a whimper. It is a gutless, unprincipled party, bought and paid for by the same interests that buy and pay for the Republican Party.

  Rocky Anderson

  Party, Pay, Constitution

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• The big story today, Barack Obama was accused of insulting Sarah Palin when he criticized Republican policies by saying, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. Political experts say that if Obama keeps insulting Palin, he could lose the election and win a job at MSNBC.

  Conan O'Brien

  Jobs, Winning, Pigs

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• Possible controversy for the Obama campaign. Republicans are now accusing Barack Obama's campaign of voter fraud, because some of the people they've registered sound like they have fake names. Apparently, the fakest-sounding name is Barack Obama.

  Conan O'Brien

  Names, People, Fake

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• I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face.

  Barack Obama

  Independent, Needs, Want

  "Obama fires up Democrats: 'I want you to argue with them and get in their face'". www.nydailynews.com. September 18, 2008.

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• Even after the Rosenthal column, nobody responsible in the Republican Party said, 'Yes, Pat Buchanan is an anti-Semite.' They didn't join in. Very few journalists joined in. What happened was, when he entered the presidential politics, then he entered a new level of criticism and attack on him.

  Robert Novak

  Party, Presidential, Criticism

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• It doesn't make sense. [Republicans are] not for us. You're not for my values. We're working class people mostly and blue collar. We're your cops, we're your firemen, we're your carpenters and the things we need - we need to protect our unions, we need to protect our Medicare, we need to protect the working class person.

  John Leguizamo

  Blue, Class, People

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• In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere.Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions.

  Marianne Williamson

  Party, Farewell, People

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• I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.

  James Denton

  Choices, Vote

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

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• And what is the Republican solution to these outrageous [racial] inequalities? There isn't one. And that's the point. Denying racism is the new racism. To not acknowledge those statistics, to think of that as a 'black problem' and not an American problem. To believe, as a majority of FOX viewers do, that reverse-racism is a bigger problem than racism, that's racist.

  Bill Maher

  Believe, Thinking, Racism

  "Bill Maher: 'Denying Racism Is The New Racism'", www.realclearpolitics.com. October 7, 2011.

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• As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.

  Mark McKinnon

  Clinton, Expected

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• Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming industry.

  Mark McKinnon

  Gun, Hollywood, Mute

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• I'm saying it loud: I'm a Republican who supports gay rights.

  Mark McKinnon

  Gay, Rights, Support

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• Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.

  Mark McKinnon

  Party, Liberty, Legacy

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• The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

  Ed Markey

  Leadership, Years, President

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. May 4, 2005.

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• I want to share with the American people that President Bush and the Republican majority in just 4 years have borrowed $1.05 trillion from foreign nations. That is selling our country to other nations because of the spending that is going on.

  Kendrick Meek

  Country, Years, People

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• We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.

  Kate Clinton

  Pride, Gay, People

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• The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Hymns, Issues, United States

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• The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.

  Pete McCloskey

  Party, Hands, Hymns

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• House Democrats have tried to increase port security funding on this House floor four times over the last 4 years, and House Republicans have defeated our efforts every single time.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Hypnosis, Years, House

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• The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

  James Carville

  Party, Teaching, Church

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• Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?

  Marquis de Sade

  Law, Punishment, Criminals

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• Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.

  Stuart Rothenberg

  White, House, President

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• The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

  Richard Neal

  Party, Vaccines, Rich

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