Republican Quotes - Page 34

• When the concept of Social Security came before the House, every Republican but one voted against it. Had it not been for the Democrats, Social Security would never have passed, and our older people would not have this great support that our people provide. It has been my experience that Democrats generally vote to protect the people, while Republicans seem to try to protect the interests of big business.

  Sam Rayburn

  People, Support, Political

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• ... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.

  Will Rogers

  Smart, Two, Office

  Will Rogers (1983). “Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers”, Oklahoma State Univ Pr

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• That, in part, is why the Constitution's framers gave justices life tenure ? to enable them to rule wherever the law and the Constitution led them, without obligation or fear of political reprisal. Former Republican president Gerald Ford recently paid tribute to John Paul Stevens, his only appointee to the Supreme Court, who is also far more liberal than Republicans expected. He has served his nation well, ... with dignity, intellect and without partisan political concerns.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Law, Justice, Political

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• Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.

  J. C. Watts

  House, Trying, Foundation

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• Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.

  J. C. Watts

  Thinking, Voice, Community

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• One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

  J. C. Watts

  Dream, Country, People

  "Remarks of Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla., to the Republican National Convention in San Diego on Tuesday night". www.cnn.com.

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• At twenty every one is republican.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Twenties, Republic

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• You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.

  Jeff Goodell

  Dog, Iowa, Texas

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• It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war.

  James A. Garfield

  Country, War, Party

  "Financial Catechism and History of the Financial Legislation of the United States from 1862-1896". Book by S. M. Brice, Cuthbert Vincent, 1882.

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• I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I'm an Alan Simpson Republican.

  Alan K. Simpson

  Looks, I Can

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• Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley!

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Lemmings, Cliffs, Mark

  "What's That Smell?". www.weeklystandard.com. October 23, 2006.

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• There is no evidence that government under Republicans will shrink. It`s simply a question of what the government will do and who will benefit.

  Chris Hayes

  Government, Benefits, Evidence

  Source: www.today.com

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• I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.

  Rob Zerban

  Reading, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.gq.com

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• It's important that we recognize how extreme the Republicans are in almost every case and how against our self-interest it is to vote for them whether or not we are disappointed with the current crew. At least they believe in the Constitution. At least they have an idea of economic justice. The Republicans are devoted to creating more rich folks.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Self, Ideas

  Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 28, 2010.

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• When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God. The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

  Noah Webster

  Exercise, Men, Voting

  Noah Webster (1837). “History of the United States: to which is prefixed a brief historical account of our [English] ancestors, from the dispersion at Babel, to their migration to America, and of the conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.307

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• Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.

  Andy Rooney

  Sorry, Selfish, Thinking

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• Had not a conviction of the danger to which an unlimited occupation of the executive chair would expose the republican Constitution of our Government, made it conscientiously a duty to retire when I did, the fear of becoming a dotard and of being insensible of it, would of itself have resisted all solicitations to remain.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Occupation, Becoming

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.4

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• I am Bourbon as a matter of honour, royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Character, Matter, Taste

  "De la restauration et de la monarchie élective". Book by François-René de Chateaubriand, 1831.

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• On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.

  Molly Ivins

  Men, Wind, Abuse

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• Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Clubs, Politician

  "Random Thoughts". townhall.com. August 26, 2008.

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• when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.

  Randall Jarrell

  Men, Intellectual, Knows

  Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”

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• A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Singing, Want

  Pete Seeger, Rob Rosenthal, Sam Rosenthal (2015). “Pete Seeger in His Own Words”, p.155, Routledge

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• Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.

  Horace Mann

  Country, Ignorance, Mean

  Horace Mann, William Bentley Fowle (1841). “Common School Journal”, p.271

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• I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.

  John Bolton

  Party, People, United States

  "Huffpost Hill", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 30, 2010.

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• He seems like a nice charming guy. [Mike Huckabee] doesn't believe in evolution and has some nutty views about what it is we should do about ending violence in our inner city—we should make sure all of our young people are armed. Republicans scare me.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Nice, Believe, Views

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