“They say that Japan's rigorous building codes and regulations saved thousands of lives over there. Or, as Republicans here saw it, it 'fostered a socialist, anti-business environment that's worse than being dead.'” EnvironmentSawsBuildingRepublicanSavedCodeJapanRegulationSocialistBusiness Environment Author:Bill Maher
“I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a big tent party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.” BigsChoicesThreePartyBuildingRepublicanDecadesPro LifeTents Author:Olympia Snowe
“One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.” IfsPoliticalSufferingResultsPartyBuildingVictoryRepublicanSouthDefeatAdministrationReformEtcExecutivesPolitical PartiesPublic LifeLegislatureBuilding UpGreat VictoryCivil Service Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“This flirtation with isolationism in the Republican party is over. It's giving way to a more muscular foreign policy than I've been advocating. But I'm also advocating building up others. Build a small schoolhouse in Afghanistan to help a poor young girl have a say about her children will destroy the ideology more than a bomb.” WayGivingChildrenHelpingYoungGirlPoorPartyPolicyBuildingRepublicanIdeologyBombsOver ItAfghanistanForeign PolicyRepublican PartyAdvocatingBuilding UpFlirtationIsolationismGiving Way Author:Rand Paul
“Trump can, like every government, trigger a short boom with borrowed money, just like he has announced. He appears to want to adopt the economic policy approach favored by Republicans of putting lots of money into building roads and cutting taxes. Markets like that. But, at the end of the day, someone always has to foot the bill.” WantEndsGovernmentCuttingFeetEconomicPolicyBuildingTrumpRepublicanTaxesApproachBillsThe End Of The DayLots Of MoneyTriggersBorrowedEconomic PolicyBorrowed MoneyBuilding Roads Author:Nicholas Bloom
“Speaker [Paul] Ryan made clear that the Republican congress agrees with [Donald Trump], and [building a wall] that`s something that should be done.” ShouldMadeDoneClearBuildingWallTrumpRepublicanAgreeCongressSpeakers Author:Mark Halperin
“My mother-in-law says if you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat. That if you are a part of the group that is doing well in this system, you owe it to yourself and to others to look out for them and make sure you are always building a ladder for others to join you.” IfsWantWellsLooksLawMotherGroupsBuildingRepublicanVoteDemocratLaddersIn-lawsMother In Law Author:Thomas Friedman