“Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.” AbleHumanityHavensRepublicanCandidates Author:Alan Rudolph
“People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.” PeopleIfsWantShouldAbleRepublicanDemocratCampaignsCandidates Author:Brian Sandoval
“We can't nominate such a weak candidate. I'd love to be able to get one-on-one with Gov. Romney and expose the record that would be the weakest record we could possibly put up against Barack Obama.” Would BeAbleRecordsRepublicanWeakBarackCandidatesRomneyOne On One Author:Rick Santorum
“A good song can only do good, and I am proud of the songs I have sung. I hope to be able to continue singing these songs for all who want to listen, Republicans, Democrats, and independents.” WantAbleSongProudRepublicanSingingDemocrat Book:Pete Seeger in His Own Words Source: Pete Seeger in His Own Words
“Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? Its simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the states budget around.” WantStatesMightAbleTurnsFightingExampleRepublicanTeethSavingBudgetsGovernorsNailsSenatorsSaving Money Author:Bart Stupak
“Well, there's a bright side to this for Ken Lay. You know, throughout the years Ken Lay has been a big campaign contributor to the Republican Party. So now, he'll be able to meet with those same people when he goes to prison.” PeopleKnowsYearsWellsHas BeensBigsAbleSidesPartyRepublicanLaysPrisonCampaignsRepublican PartyBright SideContributors Author:Jay Leno
“I'm able to be very effective because I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican. So, I'm not tied, and I'd never want to be tied to anything, to some constituency that I would have to answer to.” WantAbleAnswersRepublicanDemocratTied Author:Angelina Jolie
“It doesn't actually make any difference whether the President is Republican or Democrat. The genius of the American ruling class is that it has been able to make the people think that they have had something to do with the electing of presidents for 200 years when they've had absolutely nothing to say about the candidates or the policies or the way the country is run.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsHas BeensCountryRunningAblePresidentDifferencesClassPolicyGeniusRepublicanDemocratCandidatesRulingAbsolutely Nothing Author:Gore Vidal
“I can describe, and I've always been able to describe, what Republicans stand for in eight words, and the eight words are lower taxes, less government, strong defense and family values.” I CanGovernmentAbleValuesStrongRepublicanTaxesEightDefenseFamily Values Author:Byron Dorgan
“We want Ollie to go to all the different events and see Republicans and see Bernie Sanders and just kind of experience it and be able to make up his own mind for what he wants, none of his friends know anything about politics. Granted, they're only 9, they don't vote for a while. They just completely don't understand why are all these people coming to New Hampshire, why this is so important.” PeopleKnowsWantMindKindImportantDifferentAblePoliticsEventsRepublicanVoteGrantedHampshireNew Hampshire Author:Sarah Wright
“When my Republican colleagues talk about family values, they mean that a woman should not be able to have the right to control her own body; that women should not be able to purchase the contraceptives that they want. Those are their family values, not our family values.” WantShouldMeanBodyAbleValuesRepublicanOur FamilyColleaguesAbout FamilyFamily ValuesContraceptives Author:Bernie Sanders
“I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But one will never be able to prove it to an absolute certainty because the votes were never counted in Ohio as the result of an illegal effort by public officials to derail the recount. Even if you do not believe that the election was stolen, there is no dispute that the Republicans made a deliberate, concerted effort to tilt the results in their favor.” IfsBelievePersonsMadeAbleI BelieveResultsEffortRepublicanProveEvidenceVoteAbsolutesIntelligentElectionFavorsConclusionCertaintyOfficialsIllegalStolenDeliberateDisputesOhioProve ItTiltAbsolute CertaintyPublic OfficialsIntelligent PersonElection Results Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“Maybe this Democratic president[Barack Obama] did and can get comprehensive health care reform passed, but notice, Medicaid is not expanded in any of these dark red states. The Republican Party may not be able to repeal Obamacare, but it certainly, through its state legislatures and governorships, has managed to halt Obamacare`s full impact.” MayStatesCareAblePresidentDarkPartyRepublicanRedImpactDemocraticReformBarackHealth CareRepublican PartyComprehensiveObamacareLegislatureHaltPresident Barack ObamaHealth Care ReformMedicaidState LegislaturesNotice Me Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“You can use the [Barack] Obama administration as a recent example. For seven years they've been unopposed. The Republican Party's not trying to stop 'em on a single thing. Much of Obama's agenda has been a success. He has been able to attack various traditions, institutions, and taken over the health care system in this country. They've taken over the student loan, they've taken over the education system, and everybody in it is miserable and unhappy.” TryingYearsHas BeensCountryUseCareAblePartyTakenExampleStudentsRepublicanTraditionInstitutionsSevenVariousUnhappyMiserableAdministrationBarackHealth CareEmsAgendasRepublican PartyLoanSeven YearsEducation SystemHealth Care SystemStudent Loan Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If Donald Trump is our nominee, it could be the end of the Republican Party. It will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover. And the Democrats will be joyful about it. It's not going to happen.” IfsWayMayEndsHappensAblePartyTrumpRepublicanDemocratJoyfulSplitsRepublican PartySplinters Author:Marco Rubio
“I think this is a moment where Donald Trump recognized the Republican establishment was much weaker, the party leaders were much weaker than they thought they were in terms of being able to dictate any outcomes.” ThinkingMomentsAbleTermPartyLeaderTrumpRepublicanOutcomesEstablishment Author:Ben Domenech
“The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so, and it's been highly successful up until Barack Obama was ingeniously able to come up with strategies to deal with it.” YearsLongHas BeensAbleLastsWhiteDealsPartySuccessfulRepublicanLong TimeStrategyCome UpBarackRepublican PartyBacklashParcel Author:Cornel West
“We've just gone through this period of years where the players in the game were at least written about as being a Democratic administration, establishment Republicans, and then the rabble-rousing radicals of the tea party. And it was like a three-way negotiation between them. But we are going to enter an era where there's a physical, powerful, vibrant progressive movement that will, I think, be able to exercise power in the same way as the right-wing and the right does.” ThinkingWayYearsDoeAbleThreeGamesPowerfulPartyGonePlayerWrittenMovementPeriodsExerciseRepublicanWingsDemocraticRadicalAdministrationTeaErasProgressiveEstablishmentNegotiationRight WingTea PartyThree WaysProgressive Movement Author:Ben Wikler
“The American people, whether you are Democrat, independent, Republican, progressive, conservative, do not believe corporations are people or that corporations should be able to buy elections.” PeopleShouldBelieveAbleRepublicanIndependentElectionDemocratConservativeCorporationsProgressive Author:Bernie Sanders
“[Bill] Clinton was able to defeat conservatives, Republicans, at every turn. And so he was given wide latitude, leeway. He could do whatever he wanted and not be condemned for it. But young people today are not prone to rewarding that kind of behavior.” PeopleKindTodayAbleWantedYoungTurnsGivenRepublicanBehaviorBillsClintonDefeatWideLatitude Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Folks should be able to harvest, store, use, or sell their own energy as they see fit. This is not a Democratic nor Republican issue, and if anyone tries to convince you it is, they are being purposely misleading.” IfsShouldTryingUseAbleEnergyIssuesFitRepublicanSellsDemocraticFolksStoresConvinceHarvestMislead Author:Mark Ruffalo
“Conservatism's not the answer. The Republican Party has to reach out, moderate and modify its views to be able to accommodate radical Democrats, minorities, and so forth.” AbleAnswersViewsPartyRepublicanDemocratRadicalMinoritiesReach OutRepublican PartyModeratesConservatismAccommodate Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Pennsylvania might be a parochial state, but it's not a homogeneous state. So, even among just Republican voters, to be able to pull that off, when you have very moderate voters on one side of the state and more conservative in the middle, shows that Donald Trump has very, very broad support.” StatesShowsMightAbleSidesSupportMiddleTrumpRepublicanConservativeBroadsVotersModeratesPennsylvaniaHomogeneous Author:John Brabender
“Hillary Clinton has a real history of uniting people, of being able to work with both Republicans and Democrats, of trying to fight for people's equal rights. Whereas we really see the polar opposite in her opponent.” PeopleTryingRealAbleFightingRightsRepublicanEqualOppositesClintonDemocratOpponentsEqual RightsUnitingPolar Opposites Author:Natalie Portman
“After 9/11, I went to work with Republican mayor, governor and president to rebuild New York and to get health care for our first responders who were suffering because they had run toward danger and gotten sickened by it. Hundreds of thousands of National Guard and Reserve members have health care because of work that I did, and children have safer medicines because I was able to pass a law that required the dosing to be more carefully done.” FirstsChildrenDoneCareRunningAbleLawSufferingPresidentDangerNew YorkRepublicanMembersMedicineHealth CareGovernorsReservesMayorsNational Guard Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think that sometimes the Democrats have to run upstream or swim upstream because we've got the Republicans making it out as if we don't care about these things, and we should be able to engage and be willing to engage in the discussion about morality and values.” IfsThinkingShouldSometimesCareRunningAbleValuesWillingMoralityRepublicanDemocratDon't CareDiscussionSwim Author:Barack Obama
“Here's the real thing. Democrats got to understand that the first line in the Republican playbook is going to be smear, you know? And there's nobody who's going to be able to avoid it.” KnowsFirstsRealAbleLinesRepublicanDemocratReal ThingsPlaybooks Author:Keith Ellison
“I think the whole dynamic is different. Whereas in [Barack] Obama's case, even though there was no incumbent, he was able to run against eight years of Bush-Cheney and a Republican Congress, and everyone was tired of everything. He was able to benefit from that.” ThinkingYearsDifferentWholeRunningAbleCasesRepublicanBenefitsTiredCongressEightBarackIncumbents Author:William Kristol
“We were very effective, and I was very effective, in shaping public opinion around my campaigns. But there were big stretches, while governing, where even though we were doing the right thing, we weren't able to mobilize public opinion firmly enough behind us to weaken the resolve of the Republicans to stop opposing us or to cooperate with us. And there were times during my presidency where I lost the PR battle.” EnoughBigsAbleLostBehindsOpinionRepublicanBattleCampaignsRight ThingResolvePresidencyPublic OpinionGoverningOpposingDoing The Right Thing Author:Barack Obama
“The Supreme Court nominations [example]. I mean, the fact that Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans, was able to just stop a nomination almost a year before the next election and really not pay a political price for it, that's a sign that the incentives for politicians in this town to be so sharply partisan have gotten so outta hand that we're weakening ourselves.” YearsMeanFactsHandsAblePoliticalNextPayLeaderExamplePoliticianRepublicanTownsElectionCourtSupremeSupreme CourtIncentivesPartisansNominationsWeakening Author:Barack Obama
“I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for a hundred years, and who now are too sick to work, I want them to be able to go see a doctor. I don't care who they vote for. I don't care if they vote for a Tea Party Republican, I'm fighting for you because I voted for you to live in a country where we don't have disposable people.” PeopleIfsWantYearsCountryLightCareAbleFightingBlackWhitePartyHeroRepublicanHundredDoctorsVoteSickDon't CareTeaI Don't CareBlack PeopleCoalTea PartyMinersDisposableCoal MinersAmerican Hero Author:Van Jones
“The more people that understand and are made able to spot liberalism, and then the more people are able to associate liberalism with the problems in their lives, the political problems, the economic problems, the more people can be conditioned and educated to understand that liberalism is the problem, coupled with the ability to spot it, would be the fastest way to eradicate it. It would be really helpful if we had a Republican Party engaged in this.” PeopleIfsWayMadeProblemWould BeAblePoliticalAbilityPartyEconomicRepublicanEducatedSpotsEngagedLiberalismHelpfulAssociatesRepublican PartyEconomic Problems Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's a radical insurgency, which is a large part of the Republican base, which is willing to do anything, destroy the country, whatever, in order to get rid of this Affordable Care Act. That's the one thing that they're able to hang onto.” CountryCareAbleOrderOne ThingWillingRepublicanRadicalAffordableInsurgencyAffordable Care Act Author:Noam Chomsky