“The Republican Party has bent over backwards not even criticizing Democrats in hopes that people wouldn't think they're what the Democrats say they are, while the Democrats go out and behave that way times ten all the time every day and never get called on it.” PeopleThinkingPartyRepublicanDemocratBehaveCriticizeRepublican PartyBackwards Author:Rush Limbaugh
“America is fundamentally conservative. People want a strong national defense. They want low taxes. They want individual freedoms. There's no doubt that the Republican party has got to rebuild. We've got to restructure. We've got to let new leaders come to the fore. But at the end of the day, those fundamental core principles are the ones that have made the nation great, not just the party affecting them.” PeopleIndividualStrongPartyLeaderDoubtRepublicanTaxesConservativeRepublican PartyIndividual Freedom Author:Liz Cheney
“I think the Republican Party has changed. I think our politics have changed. The parties have deteriorated in their strength. They decentralized. We have these new super PACs and outside organizations and the Tea Party, a libertarian movement in the Republican Party. It's very different. And I think these Republicans now are very scared.” ThinkingDifferentPartyChangedRepublicanScaredLibertarianTeaRepublican PartyTea Party Author:Stuart Rothenberg
“It was a very different Republican Party in 2013. And so I think particularly the House Republicans are more confrontational, less willing to compromise even than the Republican class of '94.” ThinkingDifferentHousePartyRepublicanCompromiseRepublican Party Author:Stuart Rothenberg
“I want to be clear that when you mention the Republican critique of President Obama, that is not President-elect Trump's critique, right? So you have a real clash within the Republican Party, and I think within the Trump administration, about how to develop policy toward Russia.” ThinkingRealPresidentPartyPolicyRepublicanPresident ObamaRepublican PartyCritiqueClash Author:Michael McFaul
“There is a study that shows that people who were asked their political opinions, when there was a picture of the American flag in the corner of the questionnaire, reported more favorable attitudes toward Republican Party positions, because the flag is typically associated in people's minds with a Republican belief set. If people vote at a polling place inside a church, they vote more Republican. If they vote at a polling place inside a school, they vote more Democrat.” PeopleMindSchoolPoliticalBeliefChurchPartyAttitudeOpinionStudyRepublicanVoteDemocratRepublican PartyAmerican Flag Author:Robert Cialdini
“I hope that we will also take seriously the necessity of building alternative parties, and do that work in our communities of organizing movements of movements, creating safe spaces and sanctuary, coming into dialogue, figuring out what a common platform might be for all of us, and building on the work that is happening elsewhere around the community. Even as we resist Donald Trump, doing so with an eye toward building a truly transformational, even revolutionary movement that can become a meaningful alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties.” EyeCommunityPartyCommonBuildingRepublicanDemocraticMeaningfulDialogueRevolutionaryElsewhereRepublican Party Author:Michelle Alexander
“You can't go home and look at your plaques at the end of the day, because every politician has like a million plaques on their wall. OK? You don't go home and look at - you don't get anything for that. And you can't go home and say, boy, I really served the Democratic Party or the Republican Party. You want to go home and, you know, Fourth of July, you know, any of these special holidays that recognize our country, you want to feel like you've built a stronger nation, which means you helped build the people and put them in a stronger place where everyone's lifted.” PeopleMeanCountryHomePartyBoysSpecialLike YouWallPoliticianRepublicanStrongerDemocraticHolidayRepublican PartyDemocratic Party Author:John Kasich
“Tsunamis don't always often last. And so, you know, once the tsunami of Trump has ridden across the land and caused its destruction to the Republican Party, at some point, if he doesn't get the presidency, then someone will have to step up and rebuild and come back with a optimistic Reaganite approach to the Party. But right now it looks like the tsunami is, is flying with full force.” PartyRepublicanDestructionFlyingOptimisticRepublican PartyStep UpTsunami Author:Marc Thiessen
“The politics of resentment against other people will not just leave the Republican Party a fractured party. They're going to leave us a fractured nation. They're going to leave us as a nation where people literally hate each other because they have different political opinions.” PeopleDifferentPoliticalHatePartyOpinionRepublicanResentmentRepublican Party Author:Marco Rubio
“What is absolutely clear is that if Trump is the nominee, Republicans cannot win. Maybe they can't win with Rubio or Cruz or Kasich. We don't know. But what is absolutely certain is that with Hillary Clinton locking up the Democratic base, she is going to win unless she has a strong contender who is going to be able to pull - not only bring the entire Republican Party on the side, but win moderates. Donald Trump cannot do that.” WinningStrongPartyRepublicanDemocraticClintonRepublican Party Author:Bret Stephens
“I don't think it's so much Trump lobbing us for changes. It's us asking him for help in getting the changes done. I think Trump has the bully pulpit. He has a great deal of influence with the Republican Party on both the House and the Senate side. The bill right now to the conservative point of view doesn't have enough repeal. It looks like we're keeping a lot of Obamacare. So we actually think that there needs to be more repeal. That's the message I took to Trump.” ThinkingDoneEnoughHelpingHousePartyInfluenceRepublicanConservativePoint Of ViewRepublican PartyBully Author:Rand Paul
“A lot of people voted for Trump because of the promises he made around jobs. And so it's a failed political strategy if the goal actually is to get Trump impeached. Trump's not going to get impeached if he's still useful to the Republican party, and the only thing that makes him not useful to the Republican party is if his base turns on him. And that's not going to happen over Russia. That's going to happen over economic betrayal. But that's not going to happen if no one knows that it's happening.” PeoplePoliticalGoalPartyEconomicPromiseRepublicanStrategyBetrayalRepublican Party Author:Naomi Klein
“I do think that the Republican Party is in a crisis right now, a crisis of confidence about who we are.” ThinkingPartyRepublicanCrisisRepublican Party Author:Jeff Flake
“I believe the Republican Party is the party of the open door. Our party is the party of opportunity and freedom and equality, and it always will remain such.” BelieveOpportunityI BelievePartyRepublicanRepublican Party Author:Reince Priebus
“The Republican Party has become more conservative. The Democratic Party has become marginally more liberal. There's almost no overlap in the middle, ideological overlap, in either house of Congress. That leaves moderates homeless. We have had a hollowing out of the middle in the U.S. Congress. There's less opportunity for compromise.” OpportunityHousePartyRepublicanDemocraticConservativeCompromiseHomelessRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyIdeological Author:Michael Gerson
“The Republicans don't want Donald Trump to define the Republican Party agenda. They are very loyal. They owe a lot to their donors. The donors hate Trump. The Chamber of Commerce hates Trump. All of these people that the Republicans think they can't get elected without don't like Trump. So it has been a stonewall. This behavior by the House and Senate Republican leadership isn't anything new. All you had to do was to listen what they were saying during the campaign.” PeopleThinkingHateHousePartyRepublicanBehaviorLoyalRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump got the power of the government behind him now. He didn't have that before when he was just a clown. The Republican party is still with him. Including those state legislatures. Gerrymandering. He has basically Pravda in FOX News, in Breitbart, in Drudge.” PartyRepublicanRepublican PartyClown Author:Bill Maher
“I think the most important thing is the American people have lost trust and confidence in the people they have sent up to Congress as elected leaders. And I think that it is so important to reconnect to the people. And I think that the last election showed people weren't running back to the Republican Party. They did show that they weren't happy with the policies coming out of the Democrat Party. But they are trying to find individuals that will go up and be their voice, that will resemble them, that will take their cares and concerns to Washington, D.C.” PeopleThinkingTryingImportantCareRunningIndividualPartyLeaderPolicyRepublicanConcernElectionDemocratRepublican PartyRunning Back Author:Allen West
“The impulse to scapegoat and belittle threatens to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking people. In the case of the Republican Party, those things also threaten to turn us into a fearful, backward-looking minority party.” PeoplePartyRepublicanImpulseFearfulRepublican PartyScapegoatBelittle Author:Jeff Flake
“Of course, our immigration system isn't broken. The enforcement of our immigration system is broken. The president Barack Obama, the Democrat Party, and several in the Republican Party are trying to break the immigration system. The system itself is not broken; it's just fine. It's just being ignored.” TryingPresidentPartyBreakBrokenRepublicanDemocratImmigrationBarackIgnoredRepublican PartyPresident Barack ObamaBeing Ignored Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Conservative thinking is a very important part of Republican Party and the Republican Party is very important to the conservative movement. Since the 1960's, the polarization of the two parties and their alignment with essentially liberal and progressive and conservative thinking respectively is one of the big changes and it's made it really hard to separate those two out and so party and ideology are much more intertwined today than they were even 20 years ago, let alone 40 years ago.” ThinkingImportantTodayPartyRepublicanConservativeIdeologyProgressiveRepublican PartyAlignment Author:John Aldrich
“In the 20th century there's was the long-running division in the Republican Party between what was known as Wall Street and Main Street Republicans. And sort of different expectations about the use of the federal government.” DifferentPartyWallRepublicanExpectationsRepublican Party20th Century Author:John Aldrich
“I look at the state of the American politics and I scratch my head in wonder. How can the Republican Party, any party, have fallen into to such a state of self-destructiveness - self-destructive stupidity? How is it possible? I don't know. It's an absolute mystery to me.” PartyWonderMysteryRepublicanStupidityFallenRepublican Party Author:Philip Pullman
“Donald Trump didn't have a polling operation until very late in his campaign. How did he know what to do? That the Ted Cruz people leaked their polls to Trump because they were looking forward to eliminating all the other rivals, clearing the way for a Cruz-Trump fight that they were certain Cruz would win. In the end, Cruz was the last man standing, it's true. If he had known at the beginning what he knew at the end, he might have thought twice. The Congressional Republican Party thought they could make Trump their tool to impose their very unpopular agenda. Instead, they became his tool.” PeopleMenFightingWinningPartyRepublicanRepublican PartyLooking Forward Author:David Frum
“Donald Trump is the least unpopular thing about today's Republican Party. I mean, the idea that a Mitch McConnell or a Paul Ryan could say, "Let's toss Trump overboard and return to our program of plutocratic politics, health care removal, massive income tax cuts for the affluent, deregulation of finance" - if they cut loose from Donald Trump, it's like, you know, storm in channel, continent cut off. If they cut loose from him, they are much likelier to sink.” MeanCarePartyCuttingLike YouRepublicanTaxesProgramStormFinanceHealth CareRepublican PartyIncome TaxRemovalOverboard Author:David Frum
“I think we're seeing in the wake of the last election that evangelicals - especially young evangelicals - are no longer inextricably linked to the Republican party. Even at Liberty, there's now some ideological diversity with respect to politics. Last fall, I saw a Facebook group called "Liberty Students for Obama." It had 4 or 5 members, but still...” ThinkingFallPartyLibertyStudentsRepublicanDiversityElectionRepublican PartyIdeological Author:Kevin Roose
“I think I'm becoming a psychologist in explaining the Republican Party. It's the only way you can explain 'em. It's psychological.” ThinkingWayPartyBecomingRepublicanPsychologicalEmsRepublican PartyExplainingPsychologist Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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.” NeedsShouldKindWantedGrowsPartyRepublicanCandidatesRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican Party, I really believe, suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from years and years of bullying and taunting. The Republican Party is Jonathan Martin. The Democrat Party and the media are Richie Incognito.” YearsBelieveSufferingPartyMediaRepublicanStressDemocratPostsBullyingDisorderRepublican PartyTauntingPost Traumatic Stress Disorder Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.” KnowsHumorFunnyPartyBrainRepublicanHumorousDemocratSuspectsRepublican PartyAnti Conservative Author:Walter Lippmann
“We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.” MenBlackPartyRepublicanDemocraticDemocratRacistOrganizeRepublican PartyDemocratic Party Book:By any means necessary Source: By any means necessary
“Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.” PeopleNeedsAmericaPartyRepublicanHighestClaimsPaidDemocraticCorporateRepublican PartyCorporate America Author:Roseanne Barr
“All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.” AmericaPoliticalInterestPartyShareStreetsWallRepublicanPaidDemocratCorporateWealthyRepublican PartyPolitical PartiesCorporate America Author:Michael Moore
“More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life, how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?” IfsFirstsHumansPoliticalValuesPartyIssuesPoliticianRepublicanTaxesGainsWeakResponseRateHuman LifeAbandonRepublican PartyPro LifeStanceAnalysts Author:Gary Bauer
“If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here.” PeopleIfsCountryBornCommunityNaturalPartyHappenedRepublicanImmigrantsAlliesRepublican PartyHispanic Author:Grover Norquist
“Hello, my name is the republican party, and I have a problem. I am addicted to spending and the government - and a big government. I would like one of them just to stand up and say that.” ProblemBigsGovernmentNamesPartyRepublicanSpendingRepublican PartyHelloBig Government Author:Glenn Beck
“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.” PeopleKnowsBelieveProblemI BelievePartyHeardRepublicanEmsRepublican PartyPumpkin Author:Glenn Beck
“We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.” RememberPartyLeaderRepublicanUnionsSavedFoundersRepublican PartyAbraham Author:Barack Obama
“The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.” Would BePartyMovementRepublicanSmartTeaRepublican PartyTea PartyReally SmartTea Party Movement Author:Sarah Palin
“The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.” ValuesPartyRepublicanEmptyRepublican PartyVesselEmpty Vessels Author:Rand Paul
“Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.” PeoplePartyToo MuchRepublicanRepublican Party Author:Rand Paul
“The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history.” BlackPartyRichRepublicanRepublican PartyBlack HistoryEmancipation Author:Rand Paul
“What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.” LostPartyRightsRepublicanCivil RightsVotingRepublican PartyRight To Vote Author:Rand Paul
“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.” ThinkingWarPartyCenturyPolicyRepublicanMessVietnamForeign PolicyRepublican Party20th CenturyKoreanKorean War Author:Ron Paul
“Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.” TwoTodayChristianFoundUnitedPartyCommonEnemyEconomicStrangeRepublicanDemocraticLibertarianRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyCommon EnemyBedfellowsStrange Bedfellows Author:Steven Pinker
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelievePartyEffortRepublicanCome UpTeaPhrasesAgendasRepublican PartySlogansTea PartyCatchy Author:Colin Powell
“Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.” PartyClearRepublicanBeatsLet MeBillsClintonRepublican PartySelect Author:Dan Quayle
“I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.” ThinkingWantWinningPartyFrontsRepublicanElectionRunnersRepublican PartyGeneral Elections Author:Pat Robertson
“The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.” ThinkingLeftPartyRepublicanDemocraticBeachRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyStranded Author:Pat Robertson