Republican Quotes - Page 22

• When the Republicans controlled the House from 1994 -2006, Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Henry Waxman Charlie Rangel, John Conyers and Rahm Emanuel weren't saying we need to move right to win. They stuck to their philosophy. And they fought against Reagan and they fought against the Bushes. And eventually they did win.

  Ed Rollins

  Philosophy, Moving, Winning

  "Commentary: Stop throwing dirt on GOP 'grave'" by Ed Rollins, www.cnn.com. May 14, 2009.

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• All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

  Jack Kemp

  Party, Taken, Black

  "Kemp Courts Harlem Voters With Open Arms, Little Hope". www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1996.

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• I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

  Shannen Doherty

  Views, Southern, Baptists

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• Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.

  Herman Cain

  War, Years, Trying

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• You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

  Mark Russell

  Brain, Democrat, Brain Dead

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• The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.

  David Frum

  Strong, Party, Foxes

  "ABC Highlights Frum's Charge Fox News and Selfish Limbaugh to Blame for Health Defeat". www.newsbusters.org. March 23, 2010.

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• The big winners under the American fiscal system are the rich, who pay some of the lowest taxes anywhere in the world; the old, who are the main beneficiaries of the American social service state; farmers, rural people. These are Republican constituencies.

  David Frum

  People, World, Pay

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• Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

  David Frum

  Moving, Unity, Greater

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• It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

  Ted Cruz

  Foundation, Sound, Constitution

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• I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

  Todd Akin

  People, Decision, May

  "Romney stirs 'birther' controversy, Akin to stay in Senate race". www.cnn.com. August 24, 2012.

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• The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

  Alastair Campbell

  Mouths, Royal, Causes

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• I'm a 9/11 Republican.

  Ron Silver

  "A Liberal Hollywood Actor Who Speaks Up for Bush" by Bruce Weber, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2004.

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• The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape.

  Joy Behar

  People, Feelings, Shapes

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• It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.

  Brian Baird

  Military, Responsibility, Issues

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• Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

  Gary Bauer

  Wicked, News, Politician

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• I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

  Gary Bauer

  Party, Believe, Gay

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• Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.

  James Bovard

  Party, Rights, Air

  Interview with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• I will support the Republican nominee.

  Jeb Bush

  Support

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• The Republican majority will stop at nothing to prevent access to the legal system for those who are hurt.

  Joe Baca

  Hurt, Majority, Legal System

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• The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

  Joe Baca

  Rights, Corporations

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• Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.

  Marsha Blackburn

  People, Effort, Amnesty

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• Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.

  Marsha Blackburn

  Play, Back To Work, Told You So

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• And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today.

  Michael C. Burgess

  Believe, Important, Today

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• If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.

  Paul Begala

  Political, Campaigns, Likes

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• Republicans have never been good at public relations.

  Tammy Bruce

  Public Relations, Relation

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