“Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.” AbleHumanityHavensRepublicanCandidates Author:Alan Rudolph
“Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".” IfsEndsDonePoliticsWeekHavensPromiseRepublicanQuietDemocratAttackingWeek End Author:Will Rogers
“Republicans also took control of the Senate after gaining another seven seats. I haven't seen the GOP get this many seats since Chris Christie made an airline reservation.” MadeHavensRepublicanSevenSeatsSenateAirlineReservationsGopChristie Author:Jimmy Fallon
“...the traces to the East haven been broken, the Republican party will never again be dominated by the editorial writers for the New York Herald Tribune. Free at last.” LastsPartyHavensNew YorkBrokenRepublicanEastRepublican PartyAmerican PoliticsEditorials Author:William F. Buckley, Jr.
“[Deficits are] a yawner. We, as Republicans, have talked about deficits and balanced budgets since the days of Roosevelt, and the people simply haven't listened, because they can't relate to those huge numbers.” PeopleNumbersHavensHugeRepublicanRelateBudgetsBalancedDeficitAmerican PoliticsHuge NumbersBalanced Budget Author:Paul Laxalt
“Every Republican will tell you they are for school choice, shrinking government, cutting the government workforce and getting rid of Common Core. But talk is cheap. Talk is just talk. I haven't just talked about these things. I've actually done these things.” DoneGovernmentSchoolChoicesCommonCuttingHavensRepublicanCoreWorkforceShrinkingTalk Is CheapCommon CoreSchool Choice Author:Bobby Jindal
“Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.” PeopleTryingGivenHavensRepublicanGiven Up Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but we've always wanted the Republican Party to be the party of fiscally conservative, limited-government types. And I think, sometimes, we haven't done that as well.” ThinkingFirstsWellsSometimesDoneGovernmentWantedPartyHavensTypeRepublicanMy FamilyConservativeConventionsRepublican PartyLimited GovernmentGerald Ford Author:Rand Paul
“Paul Ryan and his allies, who include Mike Pence, are congressional conservative Republicans, they have a very clear conservative agenda. The question will be who has to bend more to accommodate the other - Mr. Trump accommodate their ideology, or will they have to accommodate his? And if he can rally audiences behind him, we could see a very interesting intra-party war of a kind we haven't seen in a really long time.” IfsKindLongWarInterestingPartyBehindsAudienceClearHavensTrumpRepublicanLong TimeConservativeIdeologyAgendasAlliesVery InterestingMikeAccommodateReally Long Author:Sam Tanenhaus
“If you`re in a Republican district that is leery of President [Donald] Trump,then, you might feel a little bit more exposed.Of course, if you`re in a swing district, then this town hall tension has to worry you which is why we haven`t seen many Republicans from swing districts actually hold these kinds of town halls.” IfsFeelsKindLittlesMightCoursesBitsPresidentWorryHavensTrumpRepublicanLittle BitTownsTensionHallsExposedSwings Author:Chuck Todd
“The media traditionally is simply an arm of the Democrat Party that is used in service of advancing the Democrat Party agenda, and the Republicans haven't come up with a way of having a more engaging, entertaining story because the Republican story is never anything other than, "We don't want Democrat X to have what he wants."” WayWantStoriesUsedPartyMediaHavensArmsRepublicanDemocratCome UpAgendasEntertainingEngagingAdvancing Author:Rush Limbaugh