“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.” KindHas BeensMightLiteraturePartyRepublicanComfortableArgumentBillsDemocraticConservativeUnpredictableDemocratic PartyBill O Reilly Author:Brit Hume
“The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress. The NRA is the reason the Republicans control the House.” WarReasonFightingHousePowerRepublicanCostConflictMembersWeaponsArgumentCongressSeatsAssaultBansNraAssault WeaponsAssault Weapons Ban Author:William J. Clinton
“Republicans define freedom as an absence of restraints imposed by government. Democrats define freedom as an absence of necessity, which government exists to reduce. America has not moved as far as it thinks it has beyond the argument about the New Deal, when FDR insisted, "Necessitous men are not free men."” ThinkingMenGovernmentAmericaPoliticalDealsPartyRepublicanArgumentMovedDemocratAbsenceRestraintPolitical PartiesFree ManNew Deal Author:George Will
“I understand that Republicans-running-against-Obamacare-in-order-to-save-Medicare is a clever jujitsu. But how long will they play out that argument before they get back to the economy?” LongPlayRunningOrderEconomyRepublicanArgumentCleverGet BackObamacareMedicare Author:Jennifer Granholm
“Why don't Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama's amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It's hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren't trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they're intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty. If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can't stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.” IfsTryingYearsLooksKindDoeHardReasonFactsLyingFightingHouseSocialSecurityMediaRepublicanArgumentVoteMajorityDemocratCongressCardsWelfareImmigrantsNo ReasonIllegalThrowingSocial SecurityAttackingPaymentIllegal ImmigrantsAmnestyConcluding Author:Ann Coulter
“The ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base - helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh, some commentators on Fox News - I think created an environment in which Republican voters would punish Republicans for cooperating with me. That hothouse of back-and-forth argument and - and really sharp partisanship I think has been harmful to America.” ThinkingHas BeensAmericaAbilityLeaderEnvironmentRepublicanNewsArgumentFolksVotersFoxesBack And ForthCommentatorsFox NewsPartisanshipCooperating Author:Barack Obama
“If we're not there making the argument then the cultural gulf that Republicans try to exploit saying, "Ah, these city slickers: they're all looking down on you, they don't care about you. They're just trying to help out their various special interest constituencies," that argument ends up being successful.” IfsTryingEndsHelpingCareInterestCitiesSuccessfulSpecialRepublicanArgumentVariousDon't CareBeing SuccessfulExploitsSpecial InterestsLooking Down Author:Barack Obama
“There's this notion that Republicans are the party of Jesus and the Democrats are the Godless party. Let's be clear for a minute. One party wants to give health insurance to the poor and the weak and the dispossessed, and one party wants to take away that health insurance and give tax breaks to rich people. You tell me: which side would Jesus fall on that argument?” PeopleWantGivingFallJesusSidesPoorPartyBreakRichClearMinutesRepublicanTaxesArgumentWeakDemocratNotionRich PeopleTax Breaks Author:Reza Aslan
“The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.” IntegrityRepublicanIntellectualArgumentShameVariousEmbarrassment Author:Jay Rockefeller