Republican Quotes - Page 40

• I know the GOP is called the stupid party, but the idea that Republicans can have the Confederate flag hung around their neck is ridiculous! It's a Democrat flag! The flags - states that seceded during the Civil War were all Democrat states. That's their flag. The slave states were Democrat states! The racist states until the 1960s were Democrat states!

  Sean Hannity

  War, Stupid, Party

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• What Lincoln did is he gathered people around him the way that I believe President Obama is doing by calling Republicans, talking to them, trying to work with them. And when that happens, big things get solved.

  Ray LaHood

  Believe, Talking, People

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. February 24, 2013.

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• The problem we have is not Democrats versus Republicans. It is a Washington cartel. I've said many times the biggest divide we have politically is not between Republicans and Democrats. It's between career politicians in both parties and the American people.

  Ted Cruz

  Party, Careers, People

  Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 29, 2015.

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• The court follows elite opinion, not public opinion. And Democratic leaders in Congress and Republican leaders in Congress follow elite opinion as well. It's what I've called "the Washington cartel." It's career politicians in both parties. It is lobbyists and giant corporations.

  Ted Cruz

  Party, Careers, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

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• A lot of Republican candidate will tell you they'll protect innocent human life and they'll hunt down ISIS and get rid of Common Core, but we're actually doing things in our state. We need a doer, not a talker.

  Bobby Jindal

  Isis, Needs, Doers

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.

  Catherine Austin Fitts

  Obfuscation, Entertainment, Conservative

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• But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.

  Stephen Harper

  Past, People, Matter

  Stephen Harper's Speech to a June 1997 Montreal meeting of the Council for National Policy, www.theglobeandmail.com. December 15, 2005.

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• I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom [to the offices of government].

  James Madison

  Men, People, Office

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• An old interview of Arnold Schwartzenegger has surfaced where he admits to smoking a lot of pot and having sex with hookers. Finally a Republican all Californians can get behind.

  David Letterman

  Sex, Smoking, Interviews

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• I have learned when two Republicans are talking about legalizing drugs to shut up.

  Rachel Maddow

  Talking, Two, Drug

  "Professed Pothead Bill Maher: 'Kids Are Dumbasses Taking Drugs and Not Learning'". bash.newsbusters.org. January 29, 2011.

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• I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

  William J. Clinton

  Responsibility, Thinking, Effort

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• My hands are heavy and most importantly they are very fast. I have been called the fastest white man alive. I don't work submissions and not because I am trying to prove something I'm just frankly not very good at 'em. I am very good at getting away. I've never fought anybody whether it was in practice or competition who could hold me down. Even if I thought I could get a submission I'm not laying underneath a grown man with my legs spread on worldwide T.V. Some guys subscribe to that theory but I am a Republican and we don't do that

  Chael Sonnen

  Men, White Man, Hands

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• The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is political fiction.

  Ann McLane Kuster

  War, Believe, Political

  "War on Women Affects Us All" by Rep. Ann McLane Kuster, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2012.

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• I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney, and I know many Democrats that don't even want to be in the same city - forget the same stage - with President Obama.

  Pete Sessions

  Cities, President, Want

  "NRCC Chairman: House Candidates Will Stand With Romney" by Caitlin Huey-Burns, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 09, 2012.

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• If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.

  Pete Sessions

  Country, Government, Messages

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• Tax cuts create more jobs and this is something we as Republicans have to do a better job of marketing.

  Pete Sessions

  Jobs, Cutting, Marketing

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• Perhaps the most radical thing we followers of Jesus can do in the information age is treat each other like humans-not heroes, not villains, not avatars, not statuses, not Republicans, not Democrats, not Calvinists, not Emergents-just humans. This wouldn't mean we would stop disagreeing, but I think it would mean we would disagree well.

  Rachel Held Evans

  Jesus, Hero, Mean

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• The War Party has two wings: the Democrats and the Republicans. All others are outsiders, whose ability to storm the gates is 'legally' restricted by a nearly impassable series of bureaucratic obstacles designed to keep them out while still maintaining the 'democratic' illusion, i.e. the phony two-party system, which is in reality a single entity.

  Justin Raimondo

  War, Party, Reality

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• Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Government, Self, Ideas

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.350

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• There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kings, Patriotic, Fighting

  The Man of Destiny (1898)

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• Remember, whenever a Republican leaves one side of the aisle and goes to the other, it raises the intelligence quotient of both parties.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Party, Sides, Remember

  Quoted in James C. Humes, Speaker's Treasury of Anecdotes About the Famous (1978)

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• Equality is a slogan based on envy. It signifies in the heart of every republican: "Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I."

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Heart, Equality, Envy

  Conversation with Nassau William Senior on May 22, 1850 "Correspondence and Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859", p. 94, 1872.

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• Washington, under Democrats and Republicans, has a profoundly neurotic attitude toward 'the people.' It is built on equal parts of suspicion, loathing, fear, respect and dependence.

  Meg Greenfield

  Attitude, Government, People

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• Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Hurt, Moving, Party

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• A Republican. A Republican. That's worse than being a goddamned Communist!

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Communist

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