“Look, at actual Republican and conservative think-tank proposals to replace ObamaCare all have the pre-existing condition provision in, done somewhat differently from [Barack] President Obama's.” ThinkingLooksDonePresidentConditionsRepublicanConservativeBarackPresident ObamaProposalTanksProvisionObamacare Author:William Kristol
“Let's look at the Trump and Bernie Sanders insurgencies. They were basically insurgencies against the Republican and Democratic Party. Bernie Sanders made no mistake about it. And, of course, Trump didn't either. And they almost won.” LooksMadeCoursesPartyMistakeTrumpRepublicanDemocraticDemocratic PartyInsurgency Author:Ralph Nader
“The Republicans do not look on the Democrats as the evil empire.” LooksEvilRepublicanDemocratEmpires Author:William Safire
“With the Democrats, they see themselves, we see ourselves as the party of the working folks, the striving, you know, the good. But, without anybody acknowledging it, there is now this little camp of folks who come across as very elitist, that look down on red state voters, who think that Republicans are dumb people.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLooksLittlesStatesPartyRepublicanRedDemocratStriveFolksDumbVotersCampsElitistDumb People Author:Van Jones
“The current budget that the Republicans are looking at never balances. How can that be fiscally responsible? And how can we look at the public with a straight face and say yes we ran on balanced budgets.” LooksFacesBalanceRepublicanResponsibleCurrentsBudgetsRanBalancedBalanced BudgetStraight Face Author:Rand Paul
“The Republicans underestimated and underestimated and underestimated Donald Trump. And look where that got them. They kept saying, no, no, no, that's not going to happen, we don't have to worry about that.” LooksHappensWorryTrumpRepublicanSaying NoUnderestimated Author:Elizabeth Warren
“I think the Republican Party has indicated to everyone who wants to look at us that, you know, we're in the mainstream. We understand a lot of the concerns people have.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLooksPartyRepublicanConcernMainstreamRepublican Party Author:Bob Dole
“Donald Trump as the nominee losing was to be the end of the Republican Party. The Democrats were gonna have basically one-party rule for 50 years, and look at what actually has happened. It's practically the reverse.” YearsLooksEndsPartyHappenedTrumpRepublicanLosingDemocratReverseRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for [Carly] Fiorina who he basically said who would vote for you? Look at her face. She evidently wants to be a Republican leadership, a part of the Republican Party so bad that she would allow them and him to get away with that.” WantWellsLooksSaidFacesSidesPartyTrumpRepublicanVoteElectionDefinedPrimariesGet AwayColleaguesRepublican PartyAisleDisrespectful Author:Maxine Waters
“As so often, a political event involving Donald Trump looks like swinging wildly between melodrama and farce. The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has begun with accusations of plagiarism after Mr Trump's wife Melania gave a speech dotted with sentences that appeared to have been lifted from a speech that Michelle Obama gave in 2008.” LooksHas BeensPoliticalWifeEventsTrumpRepublicanSpeechSentencesConventionsInvolvingAccusationPlagiarismClevelandFarceMelodrama Author:Mark Colvin
“[People] didn't vote for me because they thought I was a racist and if you look at my campaign literature it is not much different than a lot of Republican literature and some conservative Democrats in the South.” PeopleIfsLooksDifferentLiteratureRepublicanVoteDemocratSouthConservativeCampaignsRacistVote For Me Author:David Duke
“When we look at the Trump candidacy or we look at any Republican candidacy for the presidency that's been successful, they tend to win by the margin of black and brown and poor people and immigrants who do not vote.” PeopleLooksWinningBlackPoorSuccessfulTrumpRepublicanVoteBrownImmigrantsPresidencyPoor PeopleMarginsCandidacy Author:Marc Lamont Hill
“The Tea Party thing is only apt in some ways. The activism in the town halls, that looks superficially like it. But what the Tea Party did was, they went after the party, the Republican Party, as their vehicle. And parties is how you change history.” WayLooksPartyRepublicanTownsActivismTeaHallsVehicleRepublican PartyTea Party Author:Mark Shields
“The laws of spiritual physics will not allow you to lead somebody that you don't love, that you don't care about, that you resent, that you look down on. That's why the Republicans can't lead black people. And that's why Democrats increasingly can't lead these straight, white, male demons that we hate so much.” PeopleLooksCareSpiritualLawHateBlackWhiteRepublicanDemocratMalesDon't CarePhysicsDemonBlack PeopleResent Author:Van Jones
“In Obama's world, it's Fox News and me that are the reason the Republican base doesn't like him. It can't possibly be that those people actually pay attention, are actually intelligent, informed, and they actually disagree with what he's doing. It can't be that because you are not that smart and independently thinkable. You're like the Democrat base. You're bunch of idiots who only know and do and believe what you're told. There may be a degree of exaggeration in there, but that is exactly how the left looks at their voters, and that's how they look at the whole population.” PeopleKnowsWorldBelieveLooksMayReasonWholeLeftPayAttentionRepublicanDegreesNewsSmartIntelligentDemocratPopulationBunchPay AttentionIdiotVotersDisagreeFoxesExaggerationFox NewsThinkable Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As a young lawyer, I learned to try to find common ground with people, to look for a human connection. When I got to the Senate, despite the fact that there were a lot of people who didn't want me to get there - and were sure they'd never even talk to me, let alone work with me - I really tried to do the job I was sent there to do by the people of New York, which was to get things done for my constituents. I worked with Republicans, and we found a lot of common ground. It isn't easy, but it's part of what we have to do in politics today.” PeopleWantTryingHumansLooksDoneFactsTodayJobsYoungFoundEasyCommonNew YorkRepublicanConnectionsLawyerDespiteSenateWant MeThings DoneTalk To MeConstituentsCommon GroundHuman ConnectionPolitics Today Author:Hillary Clinton
“There's a split in the US about how this [split] will be resolved. The main point to look at is the split within the Republican Party. The Republican establishment, and Wall Street, and the bankers, and the corporate executives and so on, they don't want this. They don't want it at all. It's the part of the base that is mobilized that wants it.” WantLooksPartyStreetsWallRepublicanCorporateExecutivesEstablishmentSplitsRepublican PartyBankers Author:Noam Chomsky
“My mother-in-law says if you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat. That if you are a part of the group that is doing well in this system, you owe it to yourself and to others to look out for them and make sure you are always building a ladder for others to join you.” IfsWantWellsLooksLawMotherGroupsBuildingRepublicanVoteDemocratLaddersIn-lawsMother In Law Author:Thomas Friedman
“I think Republicans now are recognizing that [Obamacare cancellation] may not be what the American people, including even [Donald] Trump voters, are looking for. And my hope is that the president-elect, members of Congress from both parties look at, "Where have we objectively made progress, where things are working better?" Don't undo things just because I did them. I don't have pride of authorship.” PeopleThinkingLooksMayMadePresidentPartyProgressPrideTrumpRepublicanMembersIncludingCongressVotersRecognizingObamacareAuthorshipCancellation Author:Barack Obama
“Look, I'm a conservative, I'm a very conservative guy, and - and the Trump campaign is making your job over at NBC really, really, really easy in terms of going after conservatives and Republicans if he's the standard bearer for conservatism.” IfsLooksJobsGuyEasyTermTrumpRepublicanStandardsConservativeCampaignsConservatismNbc Author:Ben Shapiro