“There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.” WayNeedsImportantTogetherSpeakVoicePartyIssuesFiguresParticularRepublicanDemocraticIsraelIranLinksRepublican PartyModeratesDemocratic PartyExtremistCoalitionsImportant Issues Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.” ThinkingHappensPartyRepublicanAppreciateLaborEnglandDisappearComparisonModeratesExtremistBlair Author:Evan Thomas
“[The Republicans] are always asking the Muslims to denounce their extremists. And I agree with them. But they don't take that note and do it among their own. They don't denounce their own extremists.” RepublicanAskingAgreeNotesExtremist Author:Bill Maher
“If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.” PeopleIfsCasesCryPolicyColorRepublicanLateWingsSuspectsRebelHonoredAdoptedExtremistReconstructionUltras Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“It's time ... the Republican Party end the war on women they started. Whether it's the Blunt-Rubio amendment, personhood or attempts to repeal Roe v. Wade, we aren't going to let extremist politicians dictate to women what we can or cannot do with our bodies.” WarEndsBodyPartyPoliticianRepublicanAmendmentsRepublican PartyExtremistBluntWadePersonhoodRoe V Wade Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“You have two people who I would classify as extremists. Donald Trump because of his behavior and Ted Cruz because of his views, leading the Republican Party.” PeopleTwoViewsPartyTrumpRepublicanBehaviorRepublican PartyExtremistCruz Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“You can't get votes that way. So [the Republicans] have been compelled to mobilize a base of voters and gone to elements of the country that have always been there but were kind of marginal to the political system, for example, religious extremists.” WayKindHas BeensCountryPoliticalReligiousGoneExampleRepublicanElementsVoteVotersCompelledExtremistPolitical Systems Author:Noam Chomsky