“Ordinary Americans, and especially the small minority active in Democrat and Republican primaries, must learn more of what people across the globe are thinking and saying about the US. For if you follow that, you realise that the erosion of American power is happening faster than most of us predicted -- while the politicians in Washington behave like rutting stags with locked antlers.” PeopleIfsThinkingAmericaPoliticianRepublicanHappeningsOrdinaryDemocratActivePrimariesFasterBehaveMinoritiesRealisingLockedGlobesErosionAmerican PowerStagsAntlers Author:Timothy Garton Ash
“If you look at what is happening in Republican conventions across the country, they are energized. And the message is really the same - that is, big government is a problem, spending is a problem.” IfsLooksCountryProblemBigsGovernmentRepublicanMessagesHappeningsSpendingConventionsBig Government Author:Pete Sessions
“Of the seven million Americans living abroad, one million are military, and not all of them are Republicans. The other six million are overwhelmingly Democrat because people who live in foreign countries have a much different perspective as to what is happening in our country.” PeopleDifferentCountryMillionsMilitaryPerspectiveRepublicanSixHappeningsDemocratSevenOur CountryDifferent PerspectiveForeign CountriesLiving Abroad Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“I think there's something remarkable happening here that nobody is talking about. They're skirting the issue. For the longest time, the Republican Party has told us that they can't win with just Republican votes. And that's why they support amnesty. That's why they support the Democrats on many of their issues to go out and get Hispanics or other minorities.” ThinkingWinningPartyTalkingSupportIssuesRepublicanHappeningsVoteDemocratMinoritiesRemarkableRepublican PartyCan't WinAmnesty Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats. I don't know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they'll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.” KnowsWayTryingDoeHandsPartyVictoryRepublicanHappeningsElectionDemocratDefeatRepublican Party Author:Benjamin Carson
“In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich - the "rational moderate" - who said it may be happening but we shouldn't do anything about it. For a long time, the media have downplayed the issue.” MayLongSaidIssuesMediaRepublicanLong TimeHappeningsElectionClimateClimate ChangeDebateRationalPrimariesCandidatesExceptionModeratesClimate Change Deniers Author:Noam Chomsky
“You have the Republican establishment that is moving into Hillary's [Clinton] camp. What's happening in this election is sort of proof of principle.” MovingPrinciplesRepublicanHappeningsElectionClintonProofCampsEstablishment Author:Jill Stein
“What is happening to Donald Trump in terms of the way he's being reported on and cast with the media is the way every Republican presidential candidate has been treated in my life.” WayHas BeensTermMediaTrumpRepublicanHappeningsCastsTreatedPresidentialCandidatesPresidential Candidate Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Whatever is going on wrong in America today, you cannot pin it on Donald Trump. He's not been there. He has not one fingerprint. He hasn't done one thing regarding anything policy-wise that's happening in the country today, and I think this is why his candidacy is so shocking and frightening to both establishment and Republican Democrats.” ThinkingCountryDoneTodayAmericaWiseOne ThingPolicyTrumpRepublicanHappeningsDemocratEstablishmentFrighteningShockingPinsFingerprintsAmerica TodayCandidacy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Then basically what was happening was that it was the middle '80s, and Rolling Stone realized that a lot of their readers had voted for [Ronald] Reagan, and they were going, "Gosh! We need a Republican! Does anybody know a Republican? Wait a minute! I think P.J.'s a Republican!"” ThinkingKnowsNeedsDoeWaitingMiddleMinutesReaderRepublicanHappeningsStonesRolling80sRolling Stones Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“The proportion of [Donald's Trump] own direct family members who are speaking [on the Republican National Convention] is high to an unprecedented degree and a proportion of sort of figures of policy substance is unprecedentedly low. But the word unprecedentedly can be applied to simply everything that's happening this year.” YearsFiguresPolicyTrumpRepublicanMembersDegreesLowsHappeningsDirectSubstanceProportionConventionsUnprecedentedFamily Members Author:Mark Colvin
“The states is where resistance is opposition to Obamacare is taking place. The states is where tax reform is taking place, starting. The states is where whatever opposition to the latest crisis of the day is, be it health care, immigration, or guns. The states - the majority of which have Republican governors - are where this is all being dealt with, and you're not hearing about it. They don't get a lot of press coverage, but that's where this is happening.” StatesCareRepublicanTaxesHappeningsGunCrisisMajorityPressesStartingHearingImmigrationResistanceReformHealth CareOppositionGovernorsObamacareCoverageTax Reform Author:Rush Limbaugh