284 Quotes on Republican

• I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

  Author: Chely Wright

• I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

  Author: Woodrow Wilson

• You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.

  Author: Meg Whitman

• You had 42 blacks that ran on the Republican ticket this Cycle, 14 made of them made it to the general election and two of us made it to the House of Representatives. So I think that there is a new movement that needs to have a voice in the Congressional Black Caucus.

  Author: Allen West

• There are several such issues where I have departed radically from the Republican orthodoxy.

  Author: William Weld

• We always make the mistake in the United States of America in Democratic or Republican administrations alike is we tend to embrace the despot that's least troublesome to us. That should not be the way we view things.

  Author: Anthony Weiner

• It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

  Author: Noah Webster

• Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

  Author: George Washington

• Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country.

  Author: Donald Trump

• Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president.

  Author: Donald Trump

• A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

  Author: Harry Truman

• A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

  Author: Harry Truman

• The Republican movement have not behaved properly over the years. They have not themselves implemented the Agreement. If they had implemented the Agreement then they would have disarmed completely in May 2000, that is what they undertook to do, that is what they failed to do.

  Author: David Trimble

• Ten of those Republican incumbents, all of whom voted for the impeachment of President Clinton, are from states that Bill Clinton carried.

  Author: Robert Torricelli

• McCain needs Hillary to run because that's what keeps the Republican coalition together. She helps unite the Republican base.

  Author: Chuck Todd

• I think that the justices were totally answering the way that they should. I think that the senators, as best I could tell, for the most part, Democrat and Republican, respected that.

  Author: Fred Thompson

• Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

  Author: Clarence Thomas

• This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• The endorsement of respected conservative Republican officeholders and politicians is particularly important at this time as to destroy Reagan's credibility as a loyal Republican.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• The President has not created any Ford constituency, unique from that of any Republican President. The one exception to this is that he does show unique strength with young voters for a Republican.

  Author: Robert Teeter

• Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.

  Author: Ellen Tauscher

• The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush.

  Author: Tom Tancredo

• As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

  Author: William Taft

• The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.

  Author: Barbra Streisand

• I am a Reagan Republican.

  Author: Roger Stone

• Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

  Author: Sting

• It is hypocritical that Republicans can call any President "polarizing" after what Bush and the Republican Party did during his 8 years in office.

  Author: Jeffrey Stewart

• I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

  Author: Michael Steele

• There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.

  Author: Michael Steele

• My guess is more reporters probably vote Democrat than Republican - just because I think reporters are smart.

  Author: Jerry Springer

• The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican.

  Author: Yeardley Smith

• As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.

  Author: Gordon Smith

• I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

  Author: Gerrit Smith

• I'm a 9/11 Republican.

  Author: Ron Silver

• The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

  Author: Lydia Sigourney

• Don't think of him as a Republican. Think of him as the man I love, and if that doesn't work, think of him as the man who can crush you.

  Author: Maria Shriver

• I am proud that the Republican Party stands for strong support for the military, and I am sure we will consistently support our men and women serving in dangerous places around the world and their families.

  Author: John Shimkus

• I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

  Author: Martin Sheen

• I think it's clear to me that what - when I look at the tea party, it's about one-third Democrat, one-third Republican, one-third independents. But 100 percent of them are sure that the agenda that is taking place in Washington, D.C., is about extremism and is about bankrupting this country and every state within this country.

  Author: Jeff Sessions

• Sadly, this is the same old Republican story of Robin Hood in reverse - tax cuts for the rich while programs for average and low income Americans suffer.

  Author: Jose Serrano

• There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

  Author: Charles Secondat

• I don't necessarily believe there's a message in the fact that I'm an African-American Republican. I think there is a message that America as a whole, we are now awake. We are looking at a political construct and we're fairly disappointed. I think the message is no matter where you come from in this country, there is great potential.

  Author: Tim Scott

• Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.

  Author: Tim Scott

• I think we're probably more unified than ever before because we're in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government.

  Author: Bill Scott

• I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

  Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger

• Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party.

  Author: Charles Schumer

• Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• If it were up to the candidates for president on the Republican side, we would be driving foreign cars. They would have let the auto industry in America go down the tubes.

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• The current Republican Party is not really the Republican Party. It's been hijacked by this group that is not just Islamophobic but, really, xenophobic. They believe in sort of white, middle America, gun-toting - it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people.

  Author: Ron Schiller

• The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

  Author: Jan Schakowsky

• Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something.

  Author: Bobby Sands

• I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.

  Author: R. Salvatore

• Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'

  Author: Ernestine Rose

• Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.

  Author: Dana Rohrabacher

• The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

  Author: Will Rogers

• The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.

  Author: Will Rogers

• Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

  Author: Julia Roberts

• Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world.

  Author: Bill Richardson

• My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

  Author: Tommy Rettig

• My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

  Author: Harry Reid

• I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• Latinos are Republican. They just don't know it yet.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

  Author: Ron Reagan

• I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

  Author: Michael Reagan

• Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election.

  Author: Michael Reagan

• Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

  Author: Dan Quayle

• There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

  Author: Charley Pride

• And so we go over the cliff fiscally, and our Republican friends try to pin the blame on discretionary domestic spending, including spending for security. We pass budget resolutions that fall far short.

  Author: David Price

• You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.

  Author: Colin Powell

• I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.

  Author: Colin Powell

• There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

  Author: Pete Pont

• Newt has two transitions behind him. First he had to capture control of the House. He had to get the Republican budget through. He had to get the Contract With America through. He has done that.

  Author: Pete Pont

• The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.

  Author: Pete Pont

• I stand before you today as a disciplined conservative Texan, a committed Republican and a proud American, united with you to restoring our nation and revive the American dream.

  Author: Rick Perry

• I opposed No Child Left Behind, I opposed the Medicare prescription drug bill, I opposed the Wall Street bailout. What the American people are starting to see is that Republican, Republicans on Capitol Hill get it and the Democrats, from the White House to Capitol Hill, just don't get it.

  Author: Mike Pence

• I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

  Author: Mike Pence

• It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.

  Author: Timothy Pawlenty

• Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

  Author: Ron Paul

• How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.

  Author: Ron Paul

• House Republican leadership have refused to allow a clean minimum wage vote. Close to 15 million Americans will be affected if we did this. Do Republicans really expect a family to live on less than $11,000 a year?

  Author: Bill Pascrell

• The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

  Author: Trey Parker

• The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.

  Author: Sarah Palin

• I want everyone in the Republican party who opposed me to know this: you are welcome to join this people's crusade. Come aboard. You are both welcome and needed. If we unite, we'll win - and we'll rebuild New York.

  Author: Carl Paladino

• You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

  Author: Jacqueline Onassis

• The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

  Author: Robert Novak

• The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

  Author: Richard Neal

• The Tax Code today is more complicated than ever, and the very people on the Republican side who denounce the Tax Code's complexity are the ones that put together what they now call a convoluted monstrosity. They put it into effect.

  Author: Richard Neal

• The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

  Author: Ralph Nader

• 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.

  Author: Patty Murray

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

  Author: Daniel Moran

• Clinton was a pretty good president for a Republican.

  Author: Michael Moore

• I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it.

  Author: Jeff Miller

• The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout matched Democratic turnout in a presidential election year.

  Author: Jeff Miller

• If Mr. Ware does not want republican laborers on his plantation, let him pay them in full for the time contracted for, and they will leave his plantation at once.

  Author: Charles Merrill

• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  Author: H. Mencken

• But I came from a conservative Republican background.

  Author: Christopher Meloni

• I am committed to ensure that our 2008 Republican presidential candidates forthrightly address issues of importance to the African-American community.

  Author: Ken Mehlman

• Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.

  Author: Ken Mehlman

• It is sad that the Republican leadership is not as interested as they say they are in protecting the institution of marriage as they are in waging a campaign to divide and distract the American people from the real issues that need to be addressed.

  Author: Kendrick Meek

• Studies have consistently shown that financial hardship is the biggest obstacle to heterosexual marriage, yet the Republican leadership has done precious little to help address the financial hardship faced by American families.

  Author: Kendrick Meek

• First of all, I'm in favor of making price gouging a crime, and in fact, one the reasons I didn't vote for the Republican House version was because there were too many breaks for the oil companies.

  Author: Marty Meehan

• Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later.

  Author: Michael Medved

• Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.

  Author: Donella Meadows

• You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.

  Author: Aaron McGruder

• By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.

  Author: Mitch McConnell

• The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.

  Author: Pete McCloskey

• I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

  Author: Claire McCaskill

• I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.

  Author: John McCain

• The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I've been in in a long time.

  Author: John McCain

• The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.

  Author: Ed Markey

• The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted attempts to increase dramatically our fuel economy standards over the last five years.

  Author: Ed Markey

• In the House, Republican prospects have been buoyed by several successful rounds of redistricting, which have sharply reduced the number of competitive seats and given the Republicans a national advantage of at least a dozen seats.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

  Author: Bill Maher

• There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

  Author: Frank Luntz

• The Republican National Committee hired me, and they hired me because they wanted someone who could look members straight in the eye and tell them the truth.

  Author: Frank Luntz

• The language of America changed with the election of Bill Clinton, because with all due respect to my friends on the Republican side, Bill Clinton is the best communicator of the last 50 years. He felt your pain.

  Author: Frank Luntz

• The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.

  Author: Trent Lott

• If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order.

  Author: Mark Lloyd

• Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

  Author: Walter Lippmann

• After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.

  Author: Rush Limbaugh

• Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?

  Author: Rush Limbaugh

• I voted Republican this year; the Democrats left a bad taste in my mouth.

  Author: Monica Lewinsky

• Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.

  Author: David Letterman

• I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

  Author: Timothy Leary

• I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.

  Author: Alf Landon

• I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

  Author: Joe Lando

• There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

  Author: Fiorello LaGuardia

• Newt Gingrich had to work hard - getting Republican candidates to sign the Contract with America - to nationalize the election that swept Republicans to victory in 1994. A Democratic anti-Tea Party campaign would do that for the Republicans - nationalize the election, gratis - in 2010.

  Author: Charles Krauthammer

• I'm neither Democrat nor Republican.

  Author: Calvin Klein

• I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

  Author: Jeane Kirkpatrick

• The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?

  Author: Ken Kesey

• Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  Author: John Kennedy

• There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.

  Author: Edward Kennedy

• There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.

  Author: Jack Kemp

• It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me.

  Author: Lyndon Johnson

• The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.

  Author: Gary Johnson

• Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.

  Author: William Jenkins

• The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

  Author: Thomas Jefferson

• Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

  Author: Allison Janney

• I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

  Author: Charles Inglis

• I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

  Author: Jon Huntsman, Jr.

• You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.

  Author: Brit Hume

• For the year after I left government service, I worked as a consultant to the Republican National Committee because the lawyers advised that was the proper way for me to comply with ethics regulations and continue to advise the President.

  Author: Karen Hughes

• A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.

  Author: Mike Huckabee

• I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

  Author: Mike Huckabee

• The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.

  Author: Chris Hollen

• I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

  Author: Jesse Helms

• The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.

  Author: J. Hayworth

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

  Author: Mark Hatfield

• America's economy is resilient, and I am confident that Republican pro-growth policies will continue to keep our economy growing - just as it has since after the September 2001 terrorist attacks.

  Author: Dennis Hastert

• Our fumbling government's response since Beirut - during both Republican and Democratic administrations - has been to cut and run, or to flat ignore this growing threat, apparently hoping it would go away.

  Author: David Hackworth

• Truly, the challenges we face are not Democratic challenges or Republican challenges. In fact, they are not political challenges at all; they are fiscal challenges, and educational challenges, and the challenges of figuring out how to take care of each other.

  Author: Christine Gregoire

• I've always avoided expressing an opinion about where I think the republican movement should go - if it should go anywhere at all.

  Author: Guy Green

• We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task force on protecting the Great Lakes. Yet nothing has been done on it.

  Author: Jennifer Granholm

• We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats.

  Author: Lindsey Graham

• There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.

  Author: Lindsey Graham

• Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

  Author: Rube Goldberg

• In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

  Author: Rudy Giuliani

• The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.

  Author: Rudy Giuliani

• I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

  Author: Newt Gingrich

• I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.

  Author: Ed Gillespie

• Even as a partisan Republican, I'm not sure a 40-year run is healthy for either party.

  Author: Ed Gillespie

• And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.

  Author: Ed Gillespie

• Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

  Author: Ed Gillespie

• We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

  Author: Ed Gillespie

• The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.

  Author: Ed Gillespie

• If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president?

  Author: Jeff Gannon

• The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

  Author: Robert Frost

• If terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.

  Author: Tommy Franks

• But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we're an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we're going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.

  Author: Al Franken

• It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.

  Author: Barney Frank

• It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.

  Author: Timothy Fortune

• The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.

  Author: Harold Ford

• This is a race in a heavily Democratic state that, for a Republican candidate, will require full-time devotion in order to win... I could not be a senator and a father during this campaign. I could only be a candidate.

  Author: Peter Fitzgerald

• The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years.

  Author: Chaka Fattah

• I'm a Republican, by the way.

  Author: Charles Evers

• I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

  Author: Charles Evers

• The Republican Party does not reach out.

  Author: Charles Evers

• The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.

  Author: Charles Evers

• 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.

  Author: Charles Evers

• The Republican Party is not inclusive.

  Author: Charles Evers

• Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

  Author: Bob Etheridge

• A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.

  Author: Susan Estrich

• Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.

  Author: Susan Estrich

• Medical liability reform is not a Republican or Democrat issue or even a doctor versus lawyer issue. It is a patient issue.

  Author: John Ensign

• There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

  Author: Rahm Emanuel

• I actually defeated an incumbent Republican senator who was part of the Jesse Helm's political machine in North Carolina, the result of which is I'm now the senior senator from North Carolina instead of Jesse Helms, which is a very good thing for this country.

  Author: John Edwards

• We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.

  Author: Buenaventura Durruti

• Unfortunately the Republican tax cut will deny important revenues to many states facing their own deficits. This will create greater pressure for higher state and local taxes.

  Author: Dick Durbin

• I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.

  Author: Frederick Douglass

• I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

  Author: Frederick Douglass

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

  Author: John Doolittle

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

  Author: Shannen Doherty

• I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.

  Author: James Denton

• I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.

  Author: James Denton

• Not one Republican president has balanced the budget in 34 years. You can not trust Republicans with your money.

  Author: Howard Dean

• Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.

  Author: Howard Dean

• We've not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can't trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I'm much more conservative with money than George Bush is.

  Author: Howard Dean

• The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in.

  Author: Howard Dean

• In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.

  Author: Stockwell Day

• The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

  Author: Glenn Danzig

• People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there.

  Author: Glenn Danzig

• Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

  Author: Caleb Cushing

• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

  Author: Caleb Cushing

• I think it's a tremendous opportunity, particularly given the complexion of the overall voter structure in California. It's very hard for a Republican to get elected.

  Author: Mike Curb

• I was the last Republican lieutenant governor and it's been over 20 years.

  Author: Mike Curb

• The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.

  Author: Ann Coulter

• If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

  Author: Jerome Corsi

• Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

  Author: Roscoe Conkling

• We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means.

  Author: Tom Coburn

• Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

  Author: Adam Clymer

• We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.

  Author: Kate Clinton

• Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

  Author: Max Cleland

• If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?

  Author: Cher

• Where journalists have gotten themselves in trouble over the last few decades is that their skepticism often extends only to American officials, the U.S. military and Republican politicians.

  Author: Linda Chavez

• The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.

  Author: Saxby Chambliss

• We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.

  Author: Emanuel Celler

• The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

  Author: Emanuel Celler

• A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

  Author: Brian Celio

• I am convinced that this approach, a mainstream Democratic approach, commands the strong support of the American people, and presents a sharp and compassionate contrast to the Republican abortion position which offers no real hope or commitment to mother or child.

  Author: Robert Casey

• The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

  Author: James Carville

• I know that my Republican colleagues are as ashamed as I am that the United States is forced to borrow over $1 trillion from foreign nations to pay for our national priorities like reconstruction of the gulf coast and the war in Iraq.

  Author: Dennis Cardoza

• The truth is the Republican leadership has created a credit card Congress that is recklessly selling out the future of America, our children and our grandchildren, and President Bush is the most fiscally irresponsible President in the history of America.

  Author: Dennis Cardoza

• I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.

  Author: Orson Card

• The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.

  Author: Tony Campolo

• I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

  Author: Vivian Campbell

• A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.

  Author: Peter Camejo

• I mean, we are facing so many very, very important issues and those are the issues that you heard talked about last night from the Republican convention, and that you'll hear my husband talk about. And those are the really important issues facing our country right now.

  Author: Laura Bush

• It's the No.1 issue with people I talk to, whether Republican, Democrat or independent. They want to see the way business is done in Washington change.

  Author: Francine Busby

• 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.

  Author: Michael Burgess

• As a Republican, I am all for competition.

  Author: Michael Burgess

• Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.

  Author: Conrad Bums

• If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.

  Author: Vincent Bugliosi

• Year after year, President Bush has broken his campaign promises on college aid. And year after year, the Republican leadership in Congress has let him do it.

  Author: Sherrod Brown

• It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

  Author: Sherrod Brown

• Republican leadership in Congress let the energy companies write the energy bill that sent prices soaring, and has turned a blind eye to the struggles of working families trying to make ends meet.

  Author: Sherrod Brown

• He looked like such a Republican. He dressed like Pee-Wee Herman. But had I known what he had done when I was reading about him, I might have thought different.

  Author: Matthew Bright

• I am going to work with Tom Daschle. And I'll work with the Republican leaders and the president to try and come up with something that we can all be proud of.

  Author: John Breaux

• I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

  Author: Barbara Boxer

• Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican friends, you can have your option but you cannot change these facts. They're in the Congressional Record.

  Author: Barbara Boxer

• At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

  Author: Earl Blumenauer

• 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.

  Author: Marsha Blackburn

• What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

  Author: Ambrose Bierce

• In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

  Author: Ambrose Bierce

• I read a funny story about how the Republicans freed the slaves. The Republicans are the ones who created slavery by law in the 1600's. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves and he was not a Republican.

  Author: Marion Berry

• I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

  Author: Chris Bell

• 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.

  Author: Paul Begala

• It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

  Author: Paul Begala

• I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em.

  Author: Glenn Beck

• 'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.

  Author: Glenn Beck

• I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble.

  Author: Glenn Beck

• But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

  Author: Warren Beatty

• The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.

  Author: Warren Beatty

• It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

  Author: Warren Beatty

• I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

  Author: John Barlow

• 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.

  Author: Brian Baird

• To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.

  Author: Joe Baca

• I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.

  Author: Kojo Annan

• Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.

  Author: Stephen Ambrose

• What our Republican friends are doing, if we look at what they do and not what they say, they have decided that the most important thing in this country is to increase payments for interest on the national debt.

  Author: Tom Allen

• I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican.

  Author: Rodney Alexander

• The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.

  Author: Bill Alexander

• My entire family were Democrats all our lives. But because how furious I was about the previous administration, I turned in my card to become a Republican. I did not want to be known as a Democrat under that person's regime.

  Author: Danny Aiello

• Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.

  Author: Gerry Adams

• The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership.

  Author: Gerry Adams

• Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.

  Author: Gerry Adams

• Your ability as republican volunteers, to rise to this challenge will mean that the two governments and others cannot easily hide from their obligations and their responsibility to resolve these problems.

  Author: Gerry Adams

• The way forward is by building political support for republican and democratic objectives across Ireland and by winning support for these goals internationally.

  Author: Gerry Adams

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