“I'm not a Republican, but I have some conservative views on certain things. I'm not a Democrat, either. It's just very difficult that these people hate each other over a belief. I think it all comes down to ego and competitiveness.” PeopleThinkingCertainHateBeliefDifficultViewsRepublicanEgoDemocratConservativeCompetitiveness Author:Mike Tyson
“certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.” PeopleThinkingWayKindMatterPoliticalCertainPartyRepublicanDemocratPolitical PartiesWay Of ThinkingAffiliation Book:More in Anger Source: More in Anger
“Religion in America . . . Must be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions for that country; for if it does not impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it . . . I do know know whether all Americans have a sincere faith in their religion - for who can search the human heart? - But I am certain that they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions. This opinion is not peculiar to a class of citizens or a party, but it belongs to the whole nation and to every rank of society.” IfsKnowsHumansHeartDoeCountryWholeUseAmericaPoliticalCertainNationsPartyOpinionClassCitizensRepublicanTasteInstitutionsSincerePeculiarIndispensableHuman HeartMaintenanceImpartFacilitatePolitical Institutions Author:Alexis de Tocqueville
“If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: “If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against.” That’s certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has done far more to repulse me than the Democratic Party has done to appeal to me. But the result in the voting booth would be about the same either way.” IfsWayWantMayDoneWould BeCertainResultsPartyRepublicanTasteVoteDemocraticLifetimeAppealsCandidatesVotingRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyRobert Heinlein Author:Kevin Drum
“I've always wondered what it means to the Republican Party to be pro-Israel. My husband says that is is because certain sects of Christianity need Jews in Israel for the second coming.” NeedsMeanCertainPartyChristianityRepublicanHusbandJewIsraelMy HusbandRepublican PartySects Author:Jill Soloway
“Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.” CertainInterestInvolvedRepublicanConservativeElitesFundamentalism Author:Jeff Sharlet
“Donald Trump is targeting the traditional Republican voters, the average person with an average income, the working class, a certain group of entrepreneurs and those people who embrace traditional values.” PeoplePersonsCertainValuesClassGroupsTrumpRepublicanEmbraceEntrepreneurAverageIncomeTraditionalVotersWorking ClassAverage PersonTraditional Values Author:Vladimir Putin
“Republican Congressmen and senators will be in a very interesting place, where they have to support the president-elect - president - what will be President [Donald] Trump when they - when they agree with him, try to guide him in certain ways, I think oppose him on some things.” ThinkingWayTryingCertainPresidentInterestingSupportTrumpRepublicanAgreeGuidesSenatorsVery InterestingCongressmanInteresting Places Author:William Kristol
“That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain to be reversed, that's going to disappear. The Republicans are going to slash the rich's taxes.” MadeImportantCertainLevelsRichRepublicanTaxesMajorsBillsClintonRaisedDisappearInequalityAccomplishment Author:Jonathan Chait
“The one thing I've said to [Donald Trump] directly, and I would advise my Republican friends in Congress and supporters around the country, is just make sure that, as we go forward certain norms, certain institutional traditions don't get eroded, because there's a reason they're in place.” SaidCountryReasonCertainOne ThingTrumpRepublicanTraditionCongressSupporterNormAdvise Author:Barack Obama
“For sure, certain policies and positions that the party has had for 30 years are going to have to be rethought because [Donald] Trump does have a bit of a mandate when it comes to sort of thinking through trade and rebalancing our trade and how Republicans are going to sort of have a posture towards trade.” ThinkingYearsDoeCertainBitsPartyPolicyPositionTrumpRepublicanTradePostureMandates Author:Margaret Hoover
“I think a lot of voters have certain cognitive dissidence. Donald Trump is getting social conservatives, economic conservatives, some Libertarian, some supply side conservatives, debt hawks. The conservative and Republican base is not monolithic. It has subsets that he seems to be appealing to all of them.” ThinkingSeemsCertainSocialSidesEconomicTrumpRepublicanConservativeDebtLibertarianVotersCognitiveHawks Author:Roger Stone