“You know, I think when you are unemployed, especially for a long time, it's hard to be inspired or hopeful almost about anything. So it's tough, especially when there has been such gridlock here in D.C. You know, when we are fighting and can't get anything done, whether you are liberal or conservative, Democrat or Republican, no one wins.” ThinkingKnowsLongHas BeensHardDoneFightingWinningRepublicanLong TimeToughDemocratInspiredConservativeHopefulUnemployedBe InspiredGridlock Author:Peter Welch
“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
“I talked for a long time about that, what I call the hate wing of the Republican Party.And often been criticized for saying it. But there is such a thing, and it started in 1968 with the southern strategy developed by Richard Nixon to bring southern racists out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party, which they succeeded in doing.” LongHatePartyRepublicanLong TimeStrategyWingsDemocraticRacistSouthernRepublican PartyDemocratic Party Author:Howard Dean
“The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so, and it's been highly successful up until Barack Obama was ingeniously able to come up with strategies to deal with it.” YearsLongHas BeensAbleLastsWhiteDealsPartySuccessfulRepublicanLong TimeStrategyCome UpBarackRepublican PartyBacklashParcel Author:Cornel West
“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
“The Republicans had a real advantage over the Democrats for a long time. And the principal advantage they have had is they have concentrated money and concentrated power. And, boy, when it's all concentrated, man, you can organize it, you can use it, you can get out there, you can run those negative ads, you can be effective, you can put money into campaigns.” MenLongRealUseRunningBoysRepublicanLong TimeAdvantageNegativeDemocratCampaignsAdsPrincipalOrganize Author:Elizabeth Warren
“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