“Now, I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips whether he was going to have enough of them to hand out because his company Bain Capital and all of the jobs that they killed I'm sure he was worried he would run out of pink slips.” IfsThinkingFeelsEnoughHandsHappensRunningPainJobsCompanyRichDoubtRepublicanUltimateVictimSouthWorriedNo DoubtInsultSlipsRomneyGet RichCarolinaSouth CarolinaDownsizingSticking It Author:Rick Perry
“Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough.” EnoughHandsRunningTurnsRepublicanMachinesDemocratWheelsHad Enough Author:Thomas Frank
“... while the Republicans are smart enough to make money, the Democrats are smart enough to get in office every two or three times a century and take it away from 'em.” TwoEnoughPoliticalThreePoliticsCenturyRepublicanOfficeSmartDemocratMaking MoneyEmsThree Times Book:Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers Source: Radio broadcasts of Will Rogers
“Looking, acting, and ultimately being Prep is not restricted to an elite minority lucky enough to attend prestigious private schools, just because an ancestor or two happened to arrive here on the Mayflower. You don't even have to be a registered Republican.” TwoEnoughSchoolActingHappenedRepublicanLuckyMinoritiesAncestorElitesPrepsPrivate SchoolPrestigiousMayflower Book:The official preppy handbook Source: The official preppy handbook
“I'm in favor of outing when people have demonized or scapegoated gay people for their own public gain. I don't think just being a Republican is reason enough.” PeopleThinkingReasonEnoughRepublicanGayGainsFavorsJust BeingGay People Author:Rachel Maddow
“Every Republican has a one-liner on ObamaCare. I've got detailed plans on energy independence, on school choice, on health care, on foreign policy. They all hire somebody to write their plans. They can borrow mine. I've actually got ideas. Enough with the slick talkers. Let's elect somebody that's done something.” WritingIdeasDoneEnoughCareSchoolChoicesEnergyPlansPolicyMinesRepublicanIndependenceHealth CareForeign PolicyObamacareOne LinerTalkersSlickEnergy IndependenceSchool Choice Author:Bobby Jindal
“Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.” YearsEnoughShowsLastsPoliticalVoiceCommunityPartyStruggleRightsRepublicanPaperEmbraceCivil RightsAfrican AmericanCentsSixtyLegislationRepublican PartySeventiesNinety Author:Michael Steele
“It's interesting that there's so many different sides of this: Women get frustrated that we don't get paid enough; and then the Republicans or the CEOs that are men say, "Well, it's because women take off time for maternity leave."” MenWellsDifferentEnoughSidesInterestingRepublicanPaidFrustratedCeoMaternityDifferent SidesMaternity Leave Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“Republicans are taking the possibility of [Donald] Trump as nominee seriously enough that the committee that oversees next year's Senate races laid out a confidential seven-page blueprint for candidates on how to run with Trump at the top of the ticket.” YearsEnoughRunningNextRacePossibilityTrumpRepublicanPagesSevenCandidatesSenateTicketsCommitteesNext YearBlueprintsConfidential Author:Dalia Mogahed
“It was very clear, even from long before Donald Trump got in this race, when he would talk to Republicans, the number-one concern they had about Jeb Bush was whether he was too rusty for this, and whether he was going to be strong enough to stand up to Hillary Clinton.” LongEnoughStrongNumbersRaceClearTrumpRepublicanConcernClintonStrong Enough Author:Amy Walter
“I think Senator [Ted] Cruz's strategy is that there's 4.5 million, 5 million Republicans that didn't vote in 2012. This is the conventional wisdom and they didn't vote because they didn't like the nominee, wasn't conservative enough, or there was a religious component. Who knows what?” ThinkingKnowsEnoughReligiousMillionsRepublicanVoteStrategyConservativeConventionalSenatorsComponentsCruzConventional Wisdom Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump, like most Americans, like most Republicans, believe in protecting America's core national interests. He believes as do I, as do most Americans, that we aren't yet doing enough to take the fight to the Islamic State.That the intervention in Libya was ill-considered and slapdash at the time. And we're living with the consequences of it now. That we have to get tougher when it comes to our intelligence and law enforcement practices to stop Islamic terrorism.” BelieveStatesEnoughAmericaLawFightingInterestPracticeTrumpRepublicanConsequenceIllTerrorismCoreIslamicLaw EnforcementEnforcementInterventionLibyaNational InterestsIslamic StateIslamic Terrorism Author:Tom Cotton
“Interestingly enough, if you search Twitter, you'd see I have been saying this for 3-plus years now. I cannot believe we are now in this position that Donald Trump is the Republican nominee for President. That he is in this position.” IfsYearsBelieveHas BeensEnoughPresidentPositionTrumpRepublicanPlus Author:Chrissy Teigen
“[Donald] Trump comes along and is singing a different song. He says, "I don't need your money; I'm rich enough on my own to run." And he says, "I think we need these programs." And, lo and behold, a lot of Republican voters liked what he said.” ThinkingNeedsSaidDifferentEnoughRunningSongMy OwnRichTrumpRepublicanSingingProgramVoters Author:Jane Mayer
“I do say, that the parties [both Democrats and Republicans] are the same. But rather that the differences are not great enough to save your job, to save your life or to save the planet. So it doesn't do you a lot of good to get the lesser of two lethal options. Which, essentially, in my view, they are. And we can talk more about that. But, I also want to be very clear that this is a realignment election.” WantTwoEnoughJobsDifferencesViewsPartyClearPlanetsRepublicanElectionDemocratSave The Planet Author:Jill Stein
“The Cook Political Report now predicting senate democrats are poised to pick up five to seven seats, which would give them the majority. Pointing out the history shows that races in the Toss Up column never split down the middle, one party tends to win the lion`s share of them. With two weeks to Election Day, there`s not enough time for republicans to recover toss-up seats in states where Hillary Clinton is currently leading, considering this, early voting is under way, and [Donald]Trump won`t be any help especially since his campaign doesn`t really have a ground game to speak of.” WayGivingTwoStatesEnoughHelpingShowsPoliticalGamesWinningSpeakPartyRaceFiveWeekShareMiddleTrumpRepublicanPicksElectionMajorityClintonDemocratSevenCampaignsCooksSeatsReportsVotingLionsSenateSplitsConsideringPointingTwo WeeksColumnsEnough TimeTossPredictingElection DayNot Enough Time Author:Chris Hayes
“The Republican - conservative Republican answer has always been when we lose it's because we're not ideological enough. If they lose midterm elections, that's why. If Obama defeats McCain and then Mitt Romney, it's because those two Republican candidates were not ideological enough.” IfsTwoEnoughLosesAnswersRepublicanElectionDefeatConservativeCandidatesRomneyIdeologicalMccainMidtermsMidterm Elections Author:Sam Tanenhaus
“The people who are showing up [on the Republican National Convention ], either they are ones who actually believe in Donald Trump, or they think there's enough they care about, sort of keeping the party afloat and avoiding a sweeping loss in the centre of the house, they're going to show up and give him some kind of base.” PeopleThinkingGivingBelieveKindEnoughShowsCareHouseLossPartyTrumpRepublicanConventionsCentreAvoidingSweepingShowing Up Author:Mark Colvin
“Actually, I think we all understand just fine why Donald Trump is president: because he ran a racist, boorish, epically mendacious campaign and Republicans all decided to go along with it. And even that wouldn’t have been enough if Trump hadn’t gotten some additional help from his pals James Comey and Vladimir Putin.” IfsThinkingHas BeensEnoughHelpingPresidentFineTrumpRepublicanDecidedCampaignsRanRacistPutinPals Author:Kevin Drum
“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
“That old Bobby Kennedy 1968 form of liberalism where you could be holding hands with the Appalachian family on one day and then be in Harlem the next day and nobody thinks it's weird, that is something that isn't as strong. It was strong in 2008. It hasn't been as strong since then. That's just a reality that we have to deal with that it's not just that the Republicans ran a terrible candidate who had bad ideas, it's also that the circle of love and affirmation that we have as progressives can sometimes just not be big enough.” ThinkingIdeasSometimesEnoughHandsBigsRealityFormNextStrongDealsTerribleRepublicanOne DayCirclesRanCandidatesLiberalismAffirmationNext DayBad IdeasHolding HandsHarlemBobby Kennedy Author:Van Jones
“The Republican Party has consistently opposed Obamacare (as costing more), stimulus spending (as increasing inflation), etc., none of which has happened in spite of seven years of their warnings. Their main problem is that they don't have the character to admit that they are wrong. They don't have enough character to rethink their deeply held assumptions.” YearsEnoughCharacterProblemPartyHappenedRepublicanSevenSpendingAssumptionSpiteEtcWarningConsistentlyRepublican PartyInflationSeven YearsStimulusObamacare Author:Philip Kotler