Republican Quotes - Page 32

• Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.

  Bernie Sanders

  Wall, Party, Enormous

  "Jobs". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.sanders.senate.gov. February 5, 2013.

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• The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

  William J. Clinton

  Trying, Done, Conservative

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns. But then they really decided that they liked being in the majority for the first time in forty years, and they wanted to get some things done, and I agreed, to get things I wanted. It was all perfectly transparent. Everybody knew what they wanted and what I wanted.

  William J. Clinton

  Government, Years, Two

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P.Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers.

  William J. Clinton

  Thinking, Doors, Needs

  "Bill Clinton: Someone We Can All Agree On". Interview with Charles P. Pierce and Mark Warren, www.esquire.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Republicans do actually care about health care. They just don't care about government-run health care.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Running, Government, Care

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.

  John F. Kennedy

  Party, Elephants, Nuts

  John F. Kennedy, Dominique Enright (2003). “The Wicked Wit of John F. Kennedy”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous.

  Mark Twain

  Perception, Mass, Meetings

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.1115, Library of America

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• I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice.. Forget it.

  Matt Groening

  America, Justice, Liberty

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• I like to say I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, I'm a Christ-o-crat.

  Rod Parsley

  Christ, Democrat

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• Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.

  Ann Richards

  Believe, Years, Gasoline Prices

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• I applaud the fact that the president has reached out to the members of Judiciary Committee. And I applaud... the fact that he has been meeting with members of the Judiciary Committee. He's been seeking out Republicans as well as Democrats.

  Edward Kennedy

  President, Facts, Members

  "Bush urges fair hearing for high court nominee". www.cnn.com. July 16, 2005.

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• Tom DeLay himself has never been the issue. DeLay is a symptom of a larger disease?a sick Republican culture of corruption that touches everyone who took his dirty money, voted for his corrupt leadership, or sat silently while their party has sold our government to the highest bidder.

  Howard Dean

  Party, Dirty, Government

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• The Democratic National Committee is virtually 100 percent anti-firearms ownership, and the Republican National Committee stands on the side of the freedom.

  Wayne LaPierre

  Sides, Ownership, Democratic

  "Gun lobby targets Gore, Democrats" by Wolf Blitzer, Brian Cabell, www.cnn.com. May 23, 2000.

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• The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt.

  Larry Sabato

  Party, Past, Average

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• We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

  Carl Pope

  Oil, America, Lines

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• Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the reform movement for years in believing that we are doing something and accomplishing nothing.

  Robert Torricelli

  Believe, Years, Reform

  "Senate to take up softened campaign finance reform" by Jonathan Karl, www.cnn.com. October 12, 1999.

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• It is no surprise that the Republican-controlled Senate intelligence committee has once again caved in to the wishes of the White House and refused even to open an investigation. We cannot effectively legislate on the NSA spying issue if we do not know the facts, and we will not know them if the Republican-controlled intelligence committee persists in refusing to do its job.

  Harry Reid

  Jobs, Nsa, White

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• There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption - is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption.

  Harry Reid

  Responsibility, White, House

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• The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.

  Charlie Cook

  Talking, Risk, Agitation

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• If the Republicans get control back of the United States Senate, we will no longer have a check and balance on the White House, on the Republican Congress.

  Patty Murray

  White, House, Balance

  "Bush, Clinton in campaign blitz", www.cnn.com. November 2, 2002.

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• No Republican could expect to win the GOP nod after betraying his party's rank and file.

  Grover Norquist

  Betrayal, Party, Winning

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• Democrats have a problem if they go one way and don't emphasize the rule of law and only have compassion. The Republicans have a problem if they only go with the rule of law. There has to be a balance.

  Matthew Dowd

  Compassion, Law, Balance

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• It is somewhat perplexing that fellow Republicans would attack a popular conservative governor of a very conservative state whose overwhelming re-election proved a conservative philosophy can erase the gender gap and attract a record number of minority voters while remaining true to conservative principles.

  Karen Hughes

  Philosophy, Numbers, Gender Gap

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• It's hard for the White House to regain momentum if the Congress is in disarray. It ties up the Republicans in Congress and limits their ability to execute any White House agenda.

  Calvin Jillson

  White, Ties, House

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• If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.

  David Stockman

  Cutting, Politician, Chapters

  "Four deformations of the Apocalypse" by David Stockman, www.nytimes.com. July 31, 2010.

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