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“Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.”

Believe Government Roles Cases Republican Empathy Standing Weak Vulnerable Primaries Criticize Empathetic Lack Of Empathy

Author:Gary Bauer

“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.”

People Effort Security Republican Benefits Approach Aliens Borders Illegal Rejected Taxpayers Nancy Amnesty Illegal Aliens Border Security

Author:Marsha Blackburn

“Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.”

Enough Hands Running Turns Republican Machines Democrat Wheels Had Enough

Author:Thomas Frank

“Republicans say that sex is bad, because with them it always is. It is!...I'm sorry, but they're just doughy, asexual, wonky, white people, and if you had to have sex with them it would be over in an excruciating three minutes. It's just, - and from the headlines of the past year I gather the only sex they're really good at, is gay sex. Really.”

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Author:Bill Maher

“Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.”

Seems Political Courses Party Position Republican Concerned Profit Political Parties Holding On Respectability

Author:Marya Mannes

Source: More in Anger

“Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore.”

Should Ideas Growth Effort Principles Republican Embrace Conservative Abandon Als Gore

Author:Mitt Romney

“Republicans should save the clip of Jonathan Gruber and run it over and over again in the run-up to the 2016 election. This attitude that government is better at making decisions than you are because you are too stupid to know what is good for you is a hallmark of patronizing, arrogant and condescending liberalism.”

Knows Should Government Running Decision Attitude Stupid Republican Election Liberalism Arrogant Notable Hallmark Making Decisions Clip Condescending Patronizing

Author:Cal Thomas

“Republicans should simply focus on first principles and give the American people what they want - an honest party dedicated to common sense, fiscal responsibility and limited government. If we govern to save the country, we'll do well as a party.”

People Ifs Want Giving Should Firsts Wells Country Government Party Common Responsibility Principles Focus Honest Republican Common Sense Dedicated Limited Government Fiscal Responsibility

Author:Tom Coburn

“Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.”

Knows Know How Economy Republican Manage

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Republicans spent too much money, borrowed too much money, earmarked too much. In this race, I'm the only guy who hasn't spent time in Washington.”

Guy Race Too Much Republican Borrowed

Author:Mitt Romney

“Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and magic people. But convictions, nonetheless.”

People World Book Fantasy Magic Economic Stupid Morality Republican Ancient Conviction Ignorant Destroying Primitive

Author:Bill Maher

Source: The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass

“Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.”

Evil Ignorance Republican Greed Balloons Ribbons

Author:Frank Zappa

“Republicans support opening the floodgates to special interest money and suppressing the right to vote. It's just plain wrong.”

Interest Support Special Republican Vote Opening Special Interests Right To Vote Suppressing

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“Republicans talk a good game about veterans, but when it came to put money on the line to protect our veterans, frankly, they were not there.”

Games Lines Republican Protect Veteran Our Veterans

Author:Bernie Sanders

“Republicans talk loudly about freedom and yet are against a women deciding what's best for her own body and are against the freedom of two people of the same sex to marry.”

People Two Body Sex Republican

Author:Philip Kotler

“Republicans think selfishness is a virtue.”

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Author:Oliver Markus Malloy

Source: American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“Republicans think that [Ted] Cruz would be like Barry Goldwater. He'd lose in a landslide and pull the party down with him. They'd lose Senate and House seats.”

Thinking Would Be House Loses Party Republican Seats Senate Cruz Landslides Party Down

Author:Mara Liasson

“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.”

Thinking Black Voice Community Republican Black Community Naacp

Author:J. C. Watts

“Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'”

Cutting Military Republican Spending Good Will

Author:Rand Paul

“Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.”

Children Mother Politics Politician Republican Dignity Importance Journalism Bondage Bushism Mother And Child

Author:Dan Quayle

“Republicans use think tanks to come up with a lot of their messages. The think tanks are the single worst, most undisciplined example of communication I've ever seen.”

Thinking Use Worst Example Communication Republican Messages Come Up Tanks Undisciplined

Author:Frank Luntz

“Republicans want smaller government for the same reason crooks want fewer cops; it's easier to get away with murder.”

Want Reason Government Political Easier Republican Murder Police Get Away Fewer Cop Crooks Republicanism Smaller Government

Author:James Carville

Source: Had Enough?: A Handbook for Fighting Back

“Republicans want to be tough and say, 'Illegals, you're gone.' But the answer is a lot more complex than that.”

Want Answers Gone Republican Tough Complexes

Author:Susana Martinez

“Republicans want to punish work and reward wealth; hence the high payroll tax and the low dividend tax. Said one Bush economic adviser, if we can't help wealthy investors and screw working people, what's the point in being a Republican?”

People Ifs Want Said Helping Wealth Economic Republican Taxes Lows Rewards Wealthy Investors Screws Adviser Dividends Payroll Payroll Tax

Author:Paul Begala

“Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.”

Ifs Want Dies Republican Sick

Author:Alan Grayson

“Republicans: 'we fought the good fight' - yeah, it woulda been worth it if we could have prevented just one poor kid from getting a free inhaler.”

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Author:Bill Maher

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

Choices Republican Late Democrat

Author:Jill Lepore

“Republicans who criticize the use of two languages, I think, make a great mistake.”

Thinking Two Use Language Mistake Republican Criticize Great Mistakes

Author:Rand Paul

“Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos.”

Needs Hard Hard Work Republican Vote Strategy Currents Capture Latino

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.”

Economy Republican Taxes Collectors Obama Economy

Author:Mitch McConnell

“Republicans win when people are demoralized and you have a small voter turnout, which by the way is why they love voter suppression. I believe that our campaign up to now has shown that we can create an enormous amount of enthusiasm from working people, from young people, who will get involved in the political process and which will drive us to a very large voter turnout.”

“Republicans woke up Sunday with an undeniable reality. Donald Trump's the clear front-runner now for their party's nomination. Trump, celebrated, of course, his big win in South Carolina.”

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Author:Chris Matthews

“Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.”

Stories Bigs Running Lost Acting Republican Lessons Democrat Congress

Author:Thomas Sowell

“Republicans would have preferred the court overturn the health care bill, an act that would have underscored Obama's biggest liability - the perception among voters, including those who like and trust him, that he has been ineffective.”

Has Beens Care Republican Perception Bills Court Including Health Care Voters Liability

Author:Ron Fournier

“Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates, and they become, in behavior if not in thought, adherents of the woolly idea of a 'living Constitution.' They endorse, by their passivity, the idea that new threats justify ignoring the Framers' text and logic about shared responsibility for war-making.”

“Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good.”

Feels Hard Easy Party Emotional Baby Republican Authority Yeah Democrat Rational Feel Good Yearning Novelty Mama Respectful Herds Idealistic

Author:James Wolcott

“Republicans: the party that brought us 'Just Say No.' First as a drug policy, then as their entire platform.”

Firsts Party Policy Republican Drug Platforms Just Say No Drug Policy

Author:Stephen Colbert

“Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.”

Ends Poverty Luxury Republic Monarchy

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them.”

People Spirit Order Fall Virtue Wise Honest Citizens Constitution Dare Being Honest Propaganda Republic Betray Flattery Betrayed Council Stewardship Vice And Virtue Democracy In America

Author:Joseph Story

Source: The Constitutional Class Book: Being a Brief Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Designed for the Use of the Higher Classes in Common Schools

“Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.”

Ends Wisdom Politics Poverty Economy Habit Liberalism Republic Monarchy Luxurious

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”

Politics Democracy Society Philosophical Historical Republic Decline Despotism Degenerates

Author:Aristotle

“Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.”

“Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.”

Ends Poverty Luxury Republic Tyrants Monarchy

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.”

Republic Tenure

Author:Wendell Phillips

“Republics exist only on the tenure of being constantly agitated.... There is no republican road to safety but in constant distrust.”

Republican Safety Constant Republic Distrust Tenure

Author:Wendell Phillips

“Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.”

Able Enjoy Democracy Greater Diversity Fortune Profit Internals Republic Emergencies Longer Life

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.”

Individual Sacrifice Republic Apathy Ungrateful Personal Sacrifice

Author:Epes Sargent

“Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .”

People Want Education Virtue Mass Republic

Author:Horace Mann

“Repudiating the sensible world, which he neither sees himself nor believes from those who have, the Peripatetic joins combat by childish quibbling in a world on paper, and denies the Sun shines because he himself is blind.”

World Believe Sun Paper Blind Shining Deny Combat Sensible Sun Shines

Author:Johannes Kepler

“Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.”

World Universe Evil Virtue Air Agree Breathe Criminals Hopeless Organize Forbidden Wickedness

Author:Jean Genet

Source: The selected writings of Jean Genet