“Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.” IfsMeanCountryLinesHalfSecurityIgnoranceRepublicanArmyVicesCivilizedNavyDefenceArsenalLegionBreachFortsArmy NavyFortification Book:Common School Journal Source: Common School Journal
“According to a new survey, almost half of the voters in Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania say that they do not trust Hillary Clinton. Republicans immediately got together and said, 'OK, this is a huge opportunity for us. How are we going to screw it up?'” SaidTogetherOpportunityHalfHugeRepublicanClintonVotersFloridaScrewsSurveysOhioPennsylvania Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I'm a different kind of Republican. I've introduced a five-year balanced budget. I've introduced the largest tax cut in our history. I stood for ten and a half hours on the Senate floor to defend your right to be left alone. But I've also gone to Chicago. I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson, I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder...” WantYearsKindDifferentLeftHoursPartyHalfGoneFiveCuttingRepublicanTenTaxesBiggerBudgetsFive YearsChicagoSenateDifferent KindsBalancedDetroitLeft AloneTax CutsHalf HoursBaltimoreFergusonBalanced BudgetBigger Better Author:Rand Paul
“A people without a language of its own is only half a nation. A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river.” PeopleShouldImportantLanguageNationsHalfRepublicanMountainRiversBarriersTerritoryFrontiers Author:Thomas Davis
“You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.” YearsProblemHouseBornWhiteHalfDoubtRepublicanProveReasonableWhite HouseSaneStaffReasonable DoubtBeyond A Reasonable Doubt Author:Dan Quayle
“We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.” IdeasCountryPartyHalfRepublicanDemocratLibertarianGood IdeasOther Half Author:Hugh Downs
“Every election, roughly half the population votes Democrat and the other half votes Republican. Now, I understand why the Republicans get one percent of the vote - the richest one percent.That other percent, someone will have to explain to me.” HalfRepublicanPercentVoteElectionDemocratPopulationOther Half Author:Bill Maher
“With nearly two years remaining in his presidency, George W. Bush is alone. In half a century, I have not seen a president so isolated from his own party in Congress - not Jimmy Carter, not even Richard Nixon as he faced impeachment. Republicans in Congress do not trust their president to protect them.” YearsTwoPresidentPartyHalfCenturyRepublicanProtectCongressTwo YearsIsolatedPresidencyJimmyCarterImpeachmentHalf A Century Author:Robert Novak
“We can't win - if we nominate someone - if we nominate someone that half of the Republican Party hates, we're going to be fighting against each other all the way to November [of 2016]. We will never win that way.” IfsWayHateFightingWinningPartyHalfRepublicanRepublican PartyNovemberCan't Win Author:Marco Rubio
“We're doing a horrible job, and by "we" I mean conservatives, Republicans, free marketers, anyone who believes in liberty is doing a horrible job if half of young people think socialism is a good idea.” PeopleIfsThinkingBelieveMeanIdeasJobsYoungHalfLibertyRepublicanSocialismHorribleGood IdeasFree MarketMarketersHorrible Jobs Author:Ted Cruz
“I think for a lot of people, it's just where their saturation point was. Once you get into the [Donald] Trump stuff and the Republican stuff and the Ayn Rand followers, it doesn't let up for about half an hour. It gets hard and stays hard for a while.” PeopleThinkingHardStuffHoursHalfTrumpRepublicanFollowersSaturationSaturation Point Author:David Cross
“As a Republican, I have listened to Democrats talk about the only two times we won the White House in like 200 years that we stole both elections. I had to sit through Fahrenheit 9/11 and a lady was sobbing violently behind me about the election being stolen by George Bush and I patted her half way through and said, 'it's alright, it's alright. It's all a lie anyway.' Democrats have been whining for 16 years, they're still writing articles about how Bush stole the election in 2004 and 2000.” WayWritingYearsHas BeensSaidStillsTwoLyingHouseWhiteBehindsHalfRepublicanElectionDemocratWhite HouseArticlesStolenAlrightWhiningSobbingHalf Way Author:Joe Scarborough
“[Glenn] Thrush's emails to [Hillary] Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta were splashed across screens in newspapers nationwide. Thrush was criticized for sharing a half dozen paragraphs of a draft of a story for Podesta to rebut. Some reporters do just that. Other newsrooms have policies discouraging or forbidding it. Thrush says he does the same for Republicans.” DoeStoriesHalfPolicyRepublicanClintonScreensCampaignsNewspapersDozenReportersEmailChairmanDiscouragingParagraphThrush Author:Donna Brazile
“I just think the more the media uses their time-honored blueprint techniques to destroy Republican politicians... It hasn't worked on Trump yet, and they've been trying it a year and a half, folks. We're dangerously close here to the definition of insanity: "Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result." It's not Trump who's insane. Trump's having the time of his life.” ThinkingTryingYearsDifferentUseResultsHalfMediaTrumpPoliticianRepublicanFolksDefinitionsTechniqueInsaneInsanityExpectingHonoredBlueprintsDefinition Of Insanity Author:Rush Limbaugh