“Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved in the reform movement for years in believing that we are doing something and accomplishing nothing.” YearsBelieveMayHas BeensMovementInvolvedRepublicanBillsCampaignsFinanceReformCampaign FinanceCampaign Finance ReformReform Movements Author:Robert Torricelli
“Our opposition will never understand the Democratic Party. Our Party is--to the unpracticed eyes of the old Republican Tories--a mysterious contraption that usually seems to be moving in a thousand directions. What they don't know is what hurts them. For all that movement in the Democratic Party is caused by the internal combustion of creative ferment, of ideas, of people vigorously committed to the proposition that change and social progress are not only to be desired; they are necessities of twentieth-century America.” PeopleKnowsIdeasSeemsEyeAmericaMovingSocialHurtPartyCreativeProgressCenturyMovementRepublicanThousandDemocraticCommittedMysteriousOppositionInternalsPropositionsTwentieth CenturyDemocratic PartyMoving InSocial ProgressCombustion Author:Hubert H. Humphrey
“People are tired of the status quo. You see that in various movements in and out of our the Republicans party, but most candidates are offering hollow rhetoric, not specific solutions.” PeoplePartyMovementRepublicanSolutionsTiredVariousCandidatesOfferingRhetoricStatus QuoHollow Author:Carly Fiorina
“My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.” ThreeWalksOne ThingLandMovementPossibilityRepublicanThousandIndependenceConvincedMilesNativeIrelandThousand MilesNative Land Author:James Stephens
“The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.” WantLibertyPiecesMovementRepublicanRight NowExcitement Author:Gary Johnson
“The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.” ThinkingCountryRealityPartyMovementRepublicanPartnersTeaTea PartyGopTea Party Movement Author:Michael Steele
“The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement.” PartyMovementRepublicanRepublican PartyAbolitionist Author:Elbert Guillory
“There are a whole bunch of people - Republicans or sports fans or reality TV fans - who probably would never have recognized that they have trans people in their world. Caitlyn Jenner really is thinking about the movement and saving lives, so I know that her intentions are honorable.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWorldWholeRealitySportsFansMovementTvsRepublicanIntentionBunchSavingHonorableTransReality TvSave A LifeSports Fan Author:Jill Soloway
“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
“Donald Trump has the benefit of the fact that he's dominated media coverage, I mean, literally dominated media coverage because of the outrageous things he says and so forth. That's going to end here. There's going to be real fight now for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and the conservative movement. And it is not - I will do whatever it takes to prevent it from being taken over by a con artist.” HeartMeanRealSoulEndsFactsArtistFightingPartyTakenMediaMovementTrumpRepublicanBenefitsConservativeBeing RealRepublican PartyOutrageousHeart And SoulCoverageWhatever It TakesCon ArtistMedia Coverage Author:Marco Rubio
“I did not know in the beginning how important the trip would be but we knew that Iran was in the crosshairs of the Neo-Conservative movement. And when you listen to Mr. Ted Cruz, the Republican presidential hopeful, and when you listen to Mr. Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, when you listen to their language, it says to me that they are agents of the Neo-Conservative strategy.” KnowsImportantWould BeLanguageMovementRepublicanStrategyConservativeAgentsPresidentialCandidatesHopefulIranCruzMarcosPresidential Candidate Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the Civil Rights movement. Civil Rights legislation was passed by a Republican Congress.” WayRightsMovementRepublicanDemocratCongressCivil RightsAfrican AmericanLegislationCivil Rights MovementEmancipationProclamationEmancipation Proclamation Author:Rafael Cruz
“We've just gone through this period of years where the players in the game were at least written about as being a Democratic administration, establishment Republicans, and then the rabble-rousing radicals of the tea party. And it was like a three-way negotiation between them. But we are going to enter an era where there's a physical, powerful, vibrant progressive movement that will, I think, be able to exercise power in the same way as the right-wing and the right does.” ThinkingWayYearsDoeAbleThreeGamesPowerfulPartyGonePlayerWrittenMovementPeriodsExerciseRepublicanWingsDemocraticRadicalAdministrationTeaErasProgressiveEstablishmentNegotiationRight WingTea PartyThree WaysProgressive Movement Author:Ben Wikler
“In addition to trying to do the right thing and obey the law and follow principle, there's a part of the conservative, slash, Republican movement that believes if we just show that we're fair and impeccable, then we will get credit from those who think we're all these horrible things, and maybe they won't hate us as much.” IfsThinkingTryingBelieveShowsLawHatePrinciplesMovementRepublicanFairsConservativeCreditHorribleRight ThingHorrible ThingsImpeccable Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The movement that appears to be put together and led by Trump actually existed before Trump came along. The people fed up with the Republican Party, the Tea Party types, the people fed up with the Republican Washington establishment, Democrats included.” PeopleTogetherPartyMovementTypeTrumpRepublicanDemocratTeaFedsEstablishmentRepublican PartyTea PartyFed Up Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us.” PartyMovementRepublicanDemocratConservativeContemptRepublican PartyPropositions Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's a democracy, and the reason why the conservative movement loses is because it believes that it is elite, that the smartest in its midst who have gone to the right schools and who have worked at the right think tanks and have the right opinions and the right friends can run it for the rest of America. That's why I'm a Tea Party adherent over a Republican or conservative establishment adherent.” ThinkingBelieveReasonRunningSchoolAmericaLosesPartyOpinionGoneDemocracyMovementRepublicanConservativeTeaReason WhyMidstEstablishmentElitesTanksTea Party Author:Andrew Breitbart
“The truth of the matter is President Trump brought together the Republican Party and the conservative movement.” MatterTogetherPresidentPartyMovementTrumpRepublicanConservativeRepublican Party Author:Reince Priebus
“Folks, some of these town halls are clearly organized. But, regardless, there are potential warning signs that Republicans perhaps shouldn`t ignore.We heard Democrats dismiss this anger at their town halls back it 2009 as, oh, that`s right, AstroTurf movements. And then, they lost the House in a big way.” WayBigsHouseLostHeardMovementRepublicanTownsDemocratFolksOrganizedHallsWarningWarning Signs Author:Chuck Todd
“I will tell you my position now, as somebody who is ardently against [Donald Trump], as the sort of standard-bearer of the Republican Party and as sort of an impostor in the conservative movement, is, frankly, cautiously optimistic.” PartyMovementPositionTrumpRepublicanStandardsConservativeOptimisticRepublican Party Author:Margaret Hoover