“If Abe Lincoln took part in the Republican debates, he would look out of place with his intelligence, compassion and gaping head wound.” IfsLooksCompassionRepublicanWoundsDebateAbe Author:Dana Gould
“If a 25-year old can't read and write and he or she isn't gaining marketable skills, it doesn't matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in the White House. His or her future will be bleak.” IfsWritingYearsMatterHouseWhiteRepublicanSkillsDemocratWhite HouseBleak Author:J. C. Watts
“If Bob Barr (conservative republican congressman from Georgia) caught on fire and I was holding a bucket of water, it would be great act of discipline to pour it on him. I would do it, but I'd hate myself in the morning.” IfsWould BeHateWaterMorningFireDisciplineRepublicanCaughtConservativeBobGeorgiaBucketsCongressmanHate Myself Author:Barney Frank
“I just don't see why anybody would vote Republican in the Army. If you want to support the troops, if I was a troop, I would say, 'You know how to support me? Don't send me to stupid wars.'” IfsKnowsWantWarSupportKnow HowStupidRepublicanVoteArmyTroopsSupport MeSupport The Troops Author:Bill Maher
“How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?” IfsLosesBreakHellRepublicanDemocratGet Away Author:Bill Maher
“Why don't Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama's amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It's hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren't trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they're intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty. If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can't stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.” IfsTryingYearsLooksKindDoeHardReasonFactsLyingFightingHouseSocialSecurityMediaRepublicanArgumentVoteMajorityDemocratCongressCardsWelfareImmigrantsNo ReasonIllegalThrowingSocial SecurityAttackingPaymentIllegal ImmigrantsAmnestyConcluding Author:Ann Coulter
“If you look back at the 1960's in the United States, and if you think that more good was done than harm, you are probably a Democrat. If you think that more harm was done than good, then you're probably a Republican.” IfsThinkingLooksStatesDoneUnitedUnited StatesRepublicanDemocratHarm1960s Author:William J. Clinton
“If you are a minority or an interest group, the Democrats will hold the debate at your house. Whereas Republicans take a slightly different approach: they have a big tent - you're just not allowed in it.” IfsDifferentBigsHouseInterestGroupsRepublicanApproachDemocratDebateMinoritiesTentsInterest GroupsDifferent Approach Author:Jon Stewart
“The Eleventh Commandment: don't speak ill of a fellow Republican. What if the fellow Republican is doing something that hurts America? Isn't it the patriot who sides with America before he sides with the Republicans?” IfsAmericaSpeakSidesHurtRepublicanFellowsIllWhat IfCommandmentsPatriot Author:Bill Maher
“I just don't understand how anyone would want to be a Republican. I just can't figure it. I don't understand. If you're poor, if you're any kind of minority - gay, black, Latino, anything. If you're not a rich born-again-Christian, I don't get it.” IfsWantKindChristianBlackBornPoorRichFiguresRepublicanGayMinoritiesLatinoBorn Again Author:Cher
“If Republican legislators succumb to their political addiction to compromise for the sake of getting something passed, no matter how odious, they'll be laying out the red carpet of inevitability for socialized care. Once government gets its foot in the door, more government control is unavoidable.” IfsMatterGovernmentCarePoliticalDoorsFeetRepublicanRedAddictionSakeCompromiseCarpetLegislatorsRed CarpetInevitability Author:David Limbaugh
“The rules in this new 'post-partisan' era are pretty simple: If the Democratic Party wants it, it's 'stimulus.' If the Republican Party opposes it, it's 'politics' - as in headlines like this: 'Obama Urges GOP To Keep Politics To A Minimum On Stimulus.' These are serious times: As the president says, it's the worst economic crisis since the Thirties. So politicians need to put politics behind them and immediately lavish $4.19 billion on his community-organizing pals at the highly inventive 'voter registration' group ACORN for 'neighborhood stabilization activities.” IfsWantNeedsPresidentCommunitySimplePartyBehindsGroupsEconomicWorstSeriousPoliticianRepublicanActivityCrisisDemocraticBillionsErasPostsNeighborhoodUrgesVotersMinimumRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyStimulusHeadlinesPartisansGopPalsEconomic CrisisAcornsRegistrationCommunity OrganizingVoter Registration Author:Mark Steyn
“If you can look at a crime where everything points to one answer and not see it, you're a dumb-ass. And if you can look at the deficit and not see that the problem is that the rich stopped paying taxes, you're a Republican.” IfsLooksProblemAnswersRichCrimeRepublicanTaxesAssDumbDeficitPaying TaxesDumb Ass Author:Bill Maher
“When Obama's economic advisers - a greater group of schlemiels would be hard to find - warn that failure to raise the limit will trigger default and horrific consequences for the global economy, Republicans should reply that if this is so, tell it to your president and get him to approve the spending cuts along with the debt-limit increase.” IfsShouldHardWould BePresidentEconomyGreaterCuttingGroupsEconomicRepublicanLimitsConsequenceIncreaseRaisesDebtSpendingTriggersDefaultGlobal EconomyHorrificAdviserSpending Cuts Author:Dick Morris
“What if I say that in my view about the least Christian thing you could do is what the Republican party are trying to doing again now, which is try to take charge of the richest country in the world and then deny the people of that country free access to free healthcare and free education and start more wars.” PeopleIfsWorldTryingWarCountryChristianViewsPartyRepublicanDenyAccessWhat IfHealthcareRepublican PartyFree Education Author:Robert Montgomery
“I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling.” IfsWantMeanPartyWonderCuttingRepublicanRight NowTaxesSellingTortureRepublican PartyTax CutsBranded Author:Chris Matthews
“I don't care if they're Republican liberals or Democrat liberals, they're still liberals. They're not 'moderates.' Don't hit me with that. There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise.” IfsStillsCareRepublicanDemocratDon't CareI Don't CareDisguiseModerates Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I wish they would pass a law where all Democrats and Republicans had to wear NASCAR racing suits, because if you look at the NASCAR drivers, it tells who their sponsors are. And if they do that, we could then become informed voters, because we would know who owns them.” IfsKnowsLooksLawWishRepublicanDemocratSuitsDriversVotersRacingSponsorsNascarNascar Racing Author:Jesse Ventura
“President [Barack] Obama's staking his reelection hopes on rebuilding America's middle class. He wants higher taxes on the wealthy, tougher rules on Wall Street, and everyone else to get a fair shot to succeed. Republicans can cry "class warfare" if they want, but as the president put it today, it's about this country's welfare.” IfsWantCountryTodayAmericaPresidentClassStreetsMiddleCryWallHigherRepublicanSucceedTaxesShotsFairsBarackWelfareMiddle ClassWealthyWarfarePresident Barack ObamaRebuildingClass WarfareReelection Author:Chris Matthews
“Here`s the Republican Party with round heels for anybody who says the right thing at the current moment. Regardless of their record, regardless of their character, and regardless of who they are, it seems that if you say the right stuff now to the Republican ear, Steve Schmidt, they will say yes, no matter who you are.” IfsMatterMomentsCharacterSeemsStuffPartyRecordsRepublicanEarsWho You AreRoundsCurrentsRight ThingHeelsRepublican PartyRight StuffSchmidt Author:Chris Matthews
“If we have to have a real movement on this issue if you support gun control, it has to come from the Republican side.” IfsRealSidesSupportIssuesMovementRepublicanGunGun Control Author:Chuck Todd
“As soon as a Democrat or a liberal organization opens their mouth and says "We want to see this," it's going to go over the heads. And same way on the abortion debate, if they want to make a change, it is not going to come from a Republican, it's going to have to come from a Democrat.” IfsWayWantRepublicanMouthsOrganizationDemocratDebateAbortionMaking Changes Author:Chuck Todd
“CNN recently ran a sort of roundup article on why some conservatives say that Trump talk is fascist. The roundup included this tweet from Iowa Republican radio host, very influential guy in Iowa Republican caucuses, Steve Deace. Quote, "If [Barack] Obama proposed the same religion registry as Trump, every conservative in the country would call it what it is - creeping fascism."” IfsCountryGuyTrumpRepublicanConservativeRadioBarackRanArticlesHostFascismInfluentialTweetFascistsCnnIowaCaucus Author:Rachel Maddow
“If you`re a Republican politician and you`re seeing this guy [Donald Trump] saying crazy stuff and going up in the polls, what are you going to say, you`re going to say equally crazy or maybe a little less crazy stuff.” IfsLittlesGuyStuffSeeingCrazyTrumpPoliticianRepublicanThis GuyPolls Author:Bernie Sanders
“I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone.” IfsGovernmentCareForceRepublicanDemocratDon't CareI Don't CareBullyBrutesBrute Force Author:Rand Paul
“Republican presidential hopeful Mike Hucka-BS is attacking actress Natalie Portman for getting pregnant without being married. It could get a little awkward if he runs into Sarah and Bristol Palin at Fox News.” IfsLittlesRunningRepublicanMarriedNewsActressesPresidentialHopefulAwkwardPregnantFoxesMikeAttackingBeing MarriedPalinFox NewsBristol Author:Jay Leno
“The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting a seven-hundred-thousand-dollar study to see if Alaskan trees are polluting Oregon forests. You can tell Republicans are in power. Pollution? It's those damn trees.” IfsStudyTreeRepublicanThousandHundredDollarsEnvironmentalSevenProtectionForestsDamnAgencyPollutionConductingEnvironmental ProtectionOregonAlaskans Author:Jay Leno
“There were two Republican responses to the State of the Union. So if you watched the whole night, it was kind of evolution in reverse. You have Obama, then Paul Ryan, and then Michele Bachmann. Then Animal Planet had a squirrel monkey give his take.” IfsGivingKindTwoStatesWholeNightAnimalPlanetsEvolutionRepublicanUnionsResponseReverseMonkeysSquirrels Author:Bill Maher
“I kid the Republicans, with love. I feel bad for them. They got nobody for next time. Who are they gonna run? Sarah Palin, reading off her hand. Did you see that? You saw this? She wrote "tax cuts" on her hand. A Republican so stupid she has to be reminded of the one thing - Tax cuts! This is like if you saw the coyote's paw and it said "Road Runner".” IfsFeelsSaidHandsRunningKidsReadingNextSawsCuttingOne ThingStupidRepublicanTaxesNext TimeRunnersPalinTax CutsPawsCoyotesRoad Runner Author:Bill Maher
“Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, social security - hey, how about we privatize privacy! Because if the government forbids gay men from tying the knot, what is their alternative? They can`t all marry Liza Minnelli.” IfsMenShouldGovernmentSchoolSocialSecurityRepublicanGayPrisonHeyAlternativesPrivacySocial SecurityKnotsGay Men Book:New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer Source: New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
“I have this belief that Donald Trump keeps floating the idea that he will quit the party and run as an independent if the Republican Party does not treat him fairly.” IfsDoeIdeasRunningBeliefPartyTrumpRepublicanTreatsIndependentQuittingRepublican PartyFloating Author:Rachel Maddow
“For a long time, many Republicans thought if they just took two aspirin and laid down, [Donald] Trump would go away.” IfsLongTwoTrumpRepublicanLong TimeGoing AwayAspirin Author:Mara Liasson
“If you want to find the cool, anti-establishment rebels who don't answer to The Man on college campuses today, you have to go to a meeting of the College Republicans. They are rebelling against at least 99 percent of their professors.” IfsMenWantTodayAnswersCollegeHe ManRepublicanPercentMeetingsProfessorsRebelEstablishmentCampusCollege Campus Author:Ann Coulter
“We think about our country and the big issues that we face in this country; creating jobs, making sure people can keep their jobs, the need for rising wages, whether our children when they graduate from college can find a job, protecting the homeland, destroying ISIS, rebuilding defense. These are all the things that we need to focus on but we'll never get there if we're divided. We'll never get there if republicans and democrats just fight with one another.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsChildrenCountryBigsJobsFacesFightingIssuesFocusCollegeRepublicanCreatingOur ChildrenDemocratDefenseOur CountryRisingDividedDestroyingGraduatesWagesIsisHomelandRebuildingCreating Jobs Author:John Kasich
“I believe that any intelligent person who reads the evidence will come to the same conclusion about 2004 election results . But one will never be able to prove it to an absolute certainty because the votes were never counted in Ohio as the result of an illegal effort by public officials to derail the recount. Even if you do not believe that the election was stolen, there is no dispute that the Republicans made a deliberate, concerted effort to tilt the results in their favor.” IfsBelievePersonsMadeAbleI BelieveResultsEffortRepublicanProveEvidenceVoteAbsolutesIntelligentElectionFavorsConclusionCertaintyOfficialsIllegalStolenDeliberateDisputesOhioProve ItTiltAbsolute CertaintyPublic OfficialsIntelligent PersonElection Results Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“The inked fingers and the position of them, which is gonna be a 'Daily Show' photo already, of them signaling in this [Nazi salute] manner, as if they have solidarity with the Iraqis who braved physical threats against their lives to vote as if somehow these inked-fingered Republicans have something to do with that.” IfsShowsPositionRepublicanVoteThreatFingersSolidarityNaziSaluteDaily Show Author:Janeane Garofalo
“It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you're young or old, what the racial thing is, nothing matters to me.” IfsMatterYoungRepublicanDemocratNothing Matters Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“The Hispanic population grew by 4.7 percent last year, while blacks expanded by 1.5 percent and whites by a paltry 0.3 percent. Hispanics cast 6 percent of the vote in 1990 and 12 percent in 2000. If their numbers expand at the current pace, they will be up to 18 percent in 2010 and 24 percent in 2020. With one-third of Hispanics voting Republican, they are the jump ball in American politics. As this vote goes, so goes the future.” IfsYearsLastsNumbersGrewRepublicanPercentVoteThirdsBallsCastsPopulationCurrentsVotingPaceLast YearAmerican PoliticsHispanicVoting Republican Author:Dick Morris
“I'm serious. I've got to get people to realize that the government is full of it. Republicans and Democrats want to argue over stuff that's not important, like gay marriage or the war in Iraq or illegal immigration... When I run - if I run - we're going to talk about real issues like improving our schools, cleaning up our neighborhoods of drugs and crime and making Alabama a better place for all people.” PeopleIfsWantImportantWarRealGovernmentRunningSchoolStuffRealizingIssuesCrimeSeriousRepublicanGayDrugDemocratIraqArguingImmigrationNeighborhoodIllegalImprovingBetter PlaceCleaningGay MarriageAlabamaIllegal ImmigrationCleaning Up Author:Charles Barkley
“...the Democratic Party and the Republican Party are beholden to industry. They always will be. And, the American people are fooled when they think that if you can just get McGovern instead of Humphrey, or if you can get a Democrat instead of a Republican, this will be the end of our problems.” PeopleIfsThinkingEndsProblemPartyIndustryRepublicanDemocraticDemocratRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyFooled Author:Benjamin Spock
“The greatest hope most Americans - including Republicans - had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country's president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations.” IfsPersonsCountryAmericaBlackPresidentGenerationsRepublicanElectionIncludingBarackTensionEliminatingBlack PersonRacial Tension Author:Dennis Prager
“As both a conservative and a Republican, I confess that we deserve to lose this year. We have governed badly and have earned the wrath of voters, who will learn in due course how inadequate the nostrums of liberal Democrats are to the crisis of our times. If I cannot in good faith cast a vote against the Bush years by voting for Obama, I can at least do so by withholding my vote from McCain.” IfsYearsI CanCoursesLosesRepublicanDeserveVoteCrisisDemocratCastsConservativeDuesOur TimeVotingVotersWrathInadequateMccainGood FaithWithholding Author:Rod Dreher
“The Republican brand has been so badly damaged that if Republicans try to run an anti-Obama, anti-Rev. Wright or, if Sen. Clinton wins, anti-Clinton campaign, they are simply going to fail. This model has already been tested with disastrous results.” IfsTryingHas BeensRunningWinningResultsFailingRepublicanModelsClintonCampaignsBrandsTested Author:Newt Gingrich
“Watch the speech. Really, watch: if this man gets his party's nomination, he's going to be the next president. By a landslide. And he is going to transform this country. If I were a Republican, I'd be very, very afraid. Oh wait, I am a Republican.” IfsMenCountryNextWaitingPresidentPartyWatchesRepublicanSpeechNominationsLandslides Author:Rod Dreher
“Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates, and they become, in behavior if not in thought, adherents of the woolly idea of a 'living Constitution.' They endorse, by their passivity, the idea that new threats justify ignoring the Framers' text and logic about shared responsibility for war-making.” IfsIdeasWarGovernmentBeliefResponsibilityRepublicanBehaviorLogicConstitutionThreatJustifyConstructionStrictPresidencyUnlimitedDefendersLimited GovernmentPassivityFramersEnablersShared Responsibility Author:George Will
“A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.” IfsWayTryingWarFallHouseGoalPresidentWhiteDecisionAchieveRepublicanNegativeDemocratCriticalDefenseDebateTerroristBitterWheelsWhite HouseTerritoryApprovalComponentsScandalAttackingRatingPartisansFalling OffLegalityAccusersRallyingApproval RatingEnablers Author:Bob Barr
“Fifty four percent of Republican voters believe President [Barack] Obama is Muslim. And 66 percent of Trump voters believe President Obama is Muslim. If you hear anyone trying to explain the rise of Donald Trump without including that fact, then you`re hearing someone who doesn`t know what they`re talking about.” IfsKnowsTryingBelieveFactsPresidentTalkingFourTrumpRepublicanPercentIncludingHearingBarackFiftyVotersPresident ObamaPresident Barack Obama Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“It is impossible to follow the teachings of Jesus Christ and be a Republican. It's philosophically absolutely opposed - if they could only think about what they were saying for a minute. That's when you get caught up in the webs of what people call themselves and how they behave.” PeopleIfsThinkingJesusChristImpossibleTeachingMinutesRepublicanJesus ChristCaughtBehaveCaught Up Author:Neil Peart
“Who knows if John McCain could have won that presidential campaign [2008] in any circumstances when George W. Bush the outgoing Republican president had a 22 percent approval rating.” IfsKnowsPresidentCircumstancesRepublicanPercentCampaignsPresidentialApprovalRatingMccainOutgoingPresidential CampaignApproval Rating Author:Rachel Maddow
“As one conservative intellectual said to me - he said if the choice is between [Joseph] Stalin and [Adolf] Hitler, I'd pick Stalin, meaning Ted Cruz because he's more predictable. So there's real civil war inside the Republican Party.” IfsSaidWarRealChoicesPartyRepublicanIntellectualPicksConservativeCivil WarRepublican PartyPredictableCruz Author:Mara Liasson