Republican Quotes - Page 9

• You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

  Birch Bayh

  Thinking, Needs, Stealing

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• I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight.

  Peter Brimelow

  School, Kids, Fighting

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• Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.

  John Doolittle

  President, Principles, Thanks

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• I hear Republicans and Libertarians and so forth talking about property rights, but they stop talking about property rights as soon as the subject of American Indians comes up, because they know fully well, perhaps not in a fully articulated, conscious form, but they know fully well that the basis for the very system of endeavor and enterprise and profitability to which they are committed and devoted accrues on the basis of theft of the resources of someone else. They are in possession of stolen property. They know it. They all know it. It's a dishonest endeavor from day one.

  Ward Churchill

  Rights, Talking, Libertarian

  Z Magazine, vol. 8, p. 32,

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• Environmental laws give power to the people. Republicans can huff, puff and scream about what they consider strict regulations, but when they cry out for reform, for a quicker process, they're really calling for a restriction of the rights of people to be involved in the planning process.

  Daniel Kammen

  Rights, Law, People

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• The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design.

  Daniel Keys Moran

  Country, Design, Debt

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• Up until the late unpleasantness of the Civil war, then, the right of secession was more or less taken for granted in many quarters, and there has never been any amendment or even a Supreme Court decision saying it's improper. - Samual Francis, Secession May Be Legal But Not Expedient, Conservative Chronicles
  If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Taken, Errors

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• In adopting the republican form of government, I not only took it as a man does his wife, for better, for worse, but, what few men do with their wives, I took it knowing all its bad qualities.

  Gouverneur Morris

  Men, Knowing, Wife

  Statement to John Dickinson, May 23, 1803.

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• The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

  Rosa DeLauro

  Oil, Giving, Energy

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• You’re not exempt from math if you’re a Republican, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a Democrat. You’re not exempt from math if you’re a liberal, and you’re not exempt from math if you’re a conservative. You still have to do math.

  Dave Ramsey

  Math, Conservative, Democrat

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• Joseph McCarthy, the Junior Republican Senator from Wisconsin, ruled America like devil king for four years. His purges were an American mirror image of Stalin's purges, an unnoticed similarity.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Kings, Mirrors, Years

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The View from the Ground”, p.158, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.

  Mark Hatfield

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• The Republicans just voted last year to end Medicare.

  Steve Rothman

  Years, Lasts, Ends

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• Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Years, Broken, Giving

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• Well, the economic recovery was successful even though the Democrats opposed the reforms every step of the way. And it is clear the Democrats have no clear plan to strengthen our economy, as Republicans do.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Recovery, Successful, Reform

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• For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Dream, Government, Liberty

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• His presidency ended more than a decade ago, but politicians, Democrat and Republican, still talk about Ronald Reagan. Al Gore has an ad noting that in Congress he opposed the Reagan budget cuts. He says that because Bill Bradley was one of 36 Democratic Senators who voted for the cuts. Gore doesn’t point out that Bradley also voted against the popular Reagan tax cuts and that it was the tax cuts that piled up those enormous deficits, a snowballing national debt.

  Bruce Morton

  Cutting, Debt, Bills

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• Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.

  Francis Bond Head

  Light, Darkness, Mind

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• We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital.

  Barack Obama

  Political, News, Hawaii

  "Obama Answers Birthers By Showing His Certificate". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. April 27, 2011.

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• You can stick a fork in Barack Obama. Politically, he's done. The main way we can screw this up is if we choose the wrong Republican.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Political, Done, Way

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• Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

  Jill Lepore

  Choices, Democrat, Late

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• Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.

  Charles Evers

  Black, Headquarters

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• I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

  Charles Evers

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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• The Republican Party does not reach out.

  Charles Evers

  Stars, Party, Doe

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• So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.

  Charles Evers

  Party, Reason, Democratic

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