“Now Mitt is not a perfect candidate. He has a number of problems. It's hard for him, for blue collar families like mine to identify with him. It's hard for economic conservatives to identify with him. He needs to do more to reach out to Latinos.” NeedsHardProblemPerfectNumbersEconomicMinesRepublicanBlueCandidatesReach OutLatinoCollarsBlue Collar Author:George Pataki
“There are no moderate Republicans left, with the exception of a few who would vote with us when it doesn’t make any difference,” Frank said. “It’s the most rigid ideological party since before the Civil War. … The bumper sticker I’m going to have printed up for Democrats this year is, ‘We’re not perfect, but they’re nuts.’” YearsWarLeftDifferencesPerfectPartyRepublicanVoteDemocratCivil WarExceptionNutsModeratesPrintedIdeologicalNot PerfectBumperStickerBumper Sticker Author:Barney Frank
“Though I admire republican principles in theory, yet I am afraid the practice may be too perfect for human nature. We tried a republic last century, and it failed. Let our enemies try next. I hate political experiments.” TryingHumansMayLastsPoliticalHateNextPerfectEnemyPrinciplesPracticeCenturyHuman NatureTheoryRepublicanI HateExperimentsAdmireRepublic Author:Robert Walpole
“The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national character.... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort--to provide food, shelter, clothing, fuel, etc.--is the very climate which secures the highest civilization.” PeopleYearsCharacterHomePerfectDoorsMonthsIndustryComfortCivilizationRepublicanHighestIdealsLaborClimateSecureFuelEtcPermitClothingsShelterOhio Author:Rutherford B. Hayes
“Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a day you've got a hired killer who thinks you are god. A dog can't tell a Nazi from a Republican from a Commie from a Democrat and, many times, neither can I.” ThinkingMenBelieveHandsPerfectDogRepublicanDemocratKillersCentsNazi Author:Charles Bukowski
“I've always been pro-life from conception to natural death. It's important for the Republican nominee to maintain what we stand for. We are the party that stands for all of life, whether it's convenient or inconvenient, whether it's perfect or imperfect.” ImportantNaturalPerfectPartyRepublicanConceptionImperfectConvenientPro LifeInconvenientNatural Death Author:Michele Bachmann
“The Republicans just want to bankrupt the government. They think that the government should do nothing, except maybe support the military. So terrorism is perfect for them.” ThinkingWantShouldGovernmentPerfectSupportMilitaryRepublicanTerrorism Author:David O. Russell
“Part of it is eight years of a black president, and white America still lost their [minds] about that. Part of it is a Republican politics of vicious, vicious partisan [stuff] that has completely poisoned what we would call the political rhetorical sphere. All of these things come together in a perfect storm.” YearsMindStillsTogetherAmericaPoliticalLostStuffBlackPresidentWhitePerfectRepublicanEightStormSpheresViciousPartisansRhetoricalPerfect Storm Author:Junot Diaz
“The Democratic Party has formed a perfect union with the mainstream media to scare Republicans, to say that they're gonna be called racists or sexists or homophobic if they reach out to minorities.” IfsPerfectPartyMediaRepublicanUnionsDemocraticMinoritiesRacistScareReach OutMainstreamDemocratic PartyMainstream MediaHomophobic Author:Andrew Breitbart