“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
“For sure, certain policies and positions that the party has had for 30 years are going to have to be rethought because [Donald] Trump does have a bit of a mandate when it comes to sort of thinking through trade and rebalancing our trade and how Republicans are going to sort of have a posture towards trade.” ThinkingYearsDoeCertainBitsPartyPolicyPositionTrumpRepublicanTradePostureMandates Author:Margaret Hoover
“You have a sense that [Donald] Trump will probably reimagine where the Republican Party is on that issue and some others. But then I think conservatives may win in some areas, too - tax reform. So it's just - it's an enormously exciting time in terms of the possibilities.” ThinkingMayWinningTermPartyIssuesPossibilityTrumpRepublicanTaxesAreasExcitingReformRepublican PartyTax Reform Author:Margaret Hoover
“Republicans - Reagan but also George W. Bush - believed in freedom, and they believed in America's role. To have the governing party speak in terms of a zero-sum world, or speak in terms of America's purpose as no more than grabbing the largest share possible in the short run, goes against our foreign policy tradition that goes back to 1900, really.” WorldRunningAmericaPurposeSpeakTermPartyRolesSharePolicyRepublicanTraditionZeroForeign PolicyGoverningGrabbing Author:Daniel Fried
“If we have a Democratic Senate I think the Republican Party will wake up to the reality that their opposition to comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship is a losing proposition. That Donald Trump's inflammatory rhetoric and derogatory comments do not really work in a national election. And I think we'll have a better chance to actually get something done.” IfsThinkingDoneRealityChancePartyPathTrumpRepublicanLosingWake UpElectionDemocraticImmigrationReformOppositionCommentSenateRhetoricCitizenshipRepublican PartyPropositionsComprehensiveImmigration ReformDerogatory Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him.” ThinkingMeanGuyPartyRepublicanRepublican PartySpiritedCruzVery MeanMean Spirited Author:Hillary Clinton
“There's no question that the media today has a relationship with Barack Obama that... I can't say it's unique, because the modern-day media is the Democrat Party and their objective is to advance the Democrat Party agenda as well as try to discredit any opposing agenda, which would be us and the Republicans. But the relationship they've got with Obama is above and beyond that.” TryingWellsI CanWould BeTodayPartyModernMediaRepublicanUniqueDemocratObjectivesBarackAgendasOpposingModern DayDiscreditAbove And BeyondMedia Today Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I am the mayor of Boston, I am a Democrat. But, I am not the mayor of Democratic people in Boston. I am the mayor of Democrats and Republicans, Independents, Tea Party, and the unenrolled. I am the mayor of conservatives and progressives. I am the mayor of all the different races. I am the mayor of the rich and the poor.” PeopleDifferentPoorPartyRaceRichRepublicanDemocraticDemocratTeaBostonMayorsTea PartyDifferent Races Author:Marty Walsh
“The Tea Party is not monolithic. There is a battle between people who care about liberty and the Constitution and the Republican Establishment who is trying to take ownership of it and redirect it for its own purposes.” PeopleTryingCarePurposePartyLibertyRepublicanBattleConstitutionTeaEstablishmentOwnershipWho CaresTea Party Author:Naomi Wolf
“The Republican Party among the public is a minority party.” PartyRepublicanMinoritiesRepublican Party Author:Noam Chomsky
“[The Republican Party] for example, they do run the House of Representatives, they're a majority there, and it's the House that is essentially sending the government into shutdown and maybe default. But they won the majority of seats there because of various kinds of chicanery. They got a minority of the votes, but a majority of the seats, and they're using them to press forward an agenda which is extremely harmful to the public.” KindGovernmentRunningHousePartyExampleRepublicanVoteMajorityPressesVariousSeatsMinoritiesAgendasRepresentativesRepublican PartyDefaultHouse Of RepresentativesChicanery Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Republicans have picked that as the one thing that they want to hang on to to try to gain some political stand, so they have to destroy what they call Obamacare. This is now not all the Republicans, it's a wing of the Republican Party, which is called conservative but in fact is just deeply reactionary.” WantTryingFactsPoliticalPartyOne ThingRepublicanGainsWingsConservativeRepublican PartyObamacareReactionaries Author:Noam Chomsky
“[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.” PartyRepublicanConservativeRadicalRepublican PartyCommentatorsInsurgency Author:Noam Chomsky
“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
“The Republicans went so far to the right that they just can't get votes. They've become a dedicated party of the very rich and the corporate sector.” PartyRichRepublicanVoteCorporateDedicated Author:Noam Chomsky
“There had been a proposed plank for the platform that said the Republican Party believed the United States should support Ukraine in any way that we could up to and including providing them weapons, so they could fight off Russian incursions into Ukraine.That was the proposed plank in the Republican Party platform. The [Donald] Trump folks didn`t care about anything else.” WayShouldSaidStatesCareFightingUnitedPartyUnited StatesSupportTrumpRepublicanWeaponsIncludingFolksPlatformsProvidingRepublican PartyUkraine Author:Rachel Maddow
“[Tom Cotton] is seen as a real rising star in the Republican Party. He`s the youngest member of the United States Senate, routinely described as an up and comer.” RealStatesStarsUnitedPartyUnited StatesRepublicanMembersRisingSenateTomsRepublican PartyCotton Author:Rachel Maddow
“The Republican Party has consistently opposed Obamacare (as costing more), stimulus spending (as increasing inflation), etc., none of which has happened in spite of seven years of their warnings. Their main problem is that they don't have the character to admit that they are wrong. They don't have enough character to rethink their deeply held assumptions.” YearsEnoughCharacterProblemPartyHappenedRepublicanSevenSpendingAssumptionSpiteEtcWarningConsistentlyRepublican PartyInflationSeven YearsStimulusObamacare Author:Philip Kotler
“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
“I remember having meetings with Republican senators who initially had been trying to engage [Obamacare] but saw that the politics of 'no' were growing inside the Republican Party.” TryingRememberPartySawsGrowingRepublicanMeetingsSenatorsRepublican PartyObamacare Author:Barack Obama
“We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.” KnowsGivingMeanStatesPresidentLinesPartyHugeRepublicanDrawsAdvantageElectionRecoveryLegislatureState LegislaturesRedistricting Author:Barack Obama
“I invigorated the grassroots in the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party.” WellsPartyRepublicanDemocraticRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyGrassroots Author:Barack Obama
“Isn't it odd I've made some friends in the Republican Party, but that's in spite of the fact that I cannot agree with not any one single thing they stand for. That's the irony in the joy of being a human being in that we don't resent each other for our different thought processes, but anything that offers the attitude to me of "I'm going to stop you because that offends my religion", then I'm going to stop them. So I have one more note against that ideology, and the idea of a real estate agent running the universe is just not acceptable.” HumansMadeIdeasDifferentRealFactsRunningJoyUniverseProcessHuman BeingsPartyAttitudeRepublicanOffersAgreeNotesIdeologyAgentsIronyOddSpiteAcceptableEstatesRepublican PartyResentThought ProcessEstate Agents Author:John Lydon
“The thing to remember is that Donald Trump didn't rescue the Republican Party, he crushed the Republican Party. The Republican Party was so weak that an outsider came along and just wiped it out.” RememberPartyTrumpRepublicanWeakRescueOutsidersRepublican PartyCrushed Author:George Stephanopoulos
“There's this notion that Republicans are the party of Jesus and the Democrats are the Godless party. Let's be clear for a minute. One party wants to give health insurance to the poor and the weak and the dispossessed, and one party wants to take away that health insurance and give tax breaks to rich people. You tell me: which side would Jesus fall on that argument?” PeopleWantGivingFallJesusSidesPoorPartyBreakRichClearMinutesRepublicanTaxesArgumentWeakDemocratNotionRich PeopleTax Breaks Author:Reza Aslan
“I truly believe Donald Trump is not a true conservative. His values as a Republican or a self-described Republican, when he mocks the disabled, when he really badly stumbles when asked about David Duke and the KKK, when he says that he admires Vladimir Putin and then quotes the dictator Francisco Mussolini - this is unfathomable to me that this is the type of individual who leads the party that I love.” BelieveValuesIndividualPartyRepublicanConservativeAdmireDictator Author:Scott Rigell
“I really believe that Donald Trump is so polarizing even within the Republican Party that he will fail to have a majority if he is, in fact, our nominee. I think he will be shredded by the Democrats based on the opposition research that's there.” ThinkingBelievePartyFailingRepublicanDemocratRepublican Party Author:Scott Rigell
“Since November 8, 2017 the United States is literally alone in the world in first of all refusing to join in efforts to do something about climate change, but even worse, dedicated to making the situation worse. Every part of the world is trying to do something. The United States alone is trying to destroy it, and it's not just Trump, it's the whole Republican Party. You just can't find words for it. And it's not reported. It's not discussed.” WorldTryingPartyEffortSituationRepublicanClimate ChangeDedicatedRepublican PartyNovember Author:Noam Chomsky
“I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a lot of defenders. The idea that they're going to completely explode the deficit is just a party killer for the Republican parties.” BelievePartyRepublicanRepublican Party Author:David Brooks
“Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky, snarly, simpering non-entity self, that's who I detest. Trump's just a moron, but Ryan is ugly and evil.” RealEvilPartyGeniusRepublicanUglyRepublican PartyHatefulMoron Author:Richard Ford
“I believe that all people are deserving of equal dignity and also equal protection. I also believe in science. And those are three things the Republican party platform doesn't believe in.” PeopleBelieveI BelievePartyRepublicanEqualDignityProtectionRepublican PartyDeserving Author:Stephan Jenkins
“On domestic policy, one of the major stories in American politics has been the growing ideological and political self-confidence of the Democratic Party, and the growing ideological and political pessimism of the Republican Party.” PoliticalPartyPolicyRepublicanDemocraticPessimismRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyIdeological Author:Peter Beinart
“Let us build our own political machine. You've been in the Democratic Party, you got nothing. We were Republicans at one time, at least, we had a fake declaration of emancipation. No, if you and I unite with that man, and that man is Elijah Muhammad, the Messenger-Messiah, with the help of Allah he said, I will get you what you want and I know what you want for I am your brother.” MenHelpingPoliticalPartyBrotherRepublicanDemocraticFakeDeclarationDemocratic PartyMuhammadEmancipationElijah Author:Louis Farrakhan