“The American people are a non-ideological people. They very much are looking for common-sense, practical solutions to the problems that they face. Oftentimes they've got contradictory senses of various issues and policy positions and I don't think that either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party necessarily capture their deepest dreams when those parties are described in caricature or in policy terms.” PeopleThinkingProblemDreamFacesTermPartyCommonIssuesPolicyPositionRepublicanSolutionsDemocraticVariousSensesPracticalsCommon SenseCaptureRepublican PartyContradictoryDemocratic PartyIdeologicalCaricatures Author:Barack Obama
“Despite the fact that David Petraeus is now very highly regarded in foreign policy circles because of his record in both Republican and Democratic circles. It`s all pretty extraordinary.” FactsRecordsPolicyRepublicanDemocraticExtraordinaryCirclesDespiteForeign Policy Author:Chuck Todd
“I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.” KnowsHas BeensWishPolicyRepublicanDemocratForeign Policy Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.” SoundResultsEconomicPolicyRepublicanAdvantageTechnologicalShockedMonetaryEconomic Policy Author:Jack Kemp
“The thing that should most concern us is a shift in American foreign policy. We have had a bipartisan belief in American foreign policy based on the post-World War II institutions that believed in democratic global world, which Russia and the Soviet Union was often seen as hostile to. And most Republicans and Democrats have always basically believed in this world order. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin and maybe Marine Le Pen do not agree with this basic structure of the world.” WorldShouldWarOrderBeliefPolicyThis WorldTrumpRepublicanConcernAgreeInstitutionsStructureUnionsDemocraticDemocratRussiaPostsWar Of The WorldsPensSovietWorld War IiForeign PolicyWorld War ISoviet UnionHostileMarinePutinWorld OrderBipartisanAmerican Foreign Policy Author:David Brooks
“Trump can, like every government, trigger a short boom with borrowed money, just like he has announced. He appears to want to adopt the economic policy approach favored by Republicans of putting lots of money into building roads and cutting taxes. Markets like that. But, at the end of the day, someone always has to foot the bill.” WantEndsGovernmentCuttingFeetEconomicPolicyBuildingTrumpRepublicanTaxesApproachBillsThe End Of The DayLots Of MoneyTriggersBorrowedEconomic PolicyBorrowed MoneyBuilding Roads Author:Nicholas Bloom
“The proportion of [Donald's Trump] own direct family members who are speaking [on the Republican National Convention] is high to an unprecedented degree and a proportion of sort of figures of policy substance is unprecedentedly low. But the word unprecedentedly can be applied to simply everything that's happening this year.” YearsFiguresPolicyTrumpRepublicanMembersDegreesLowsHappeningsDirectSubstanceProportionConventionsUnprecedentedFamily Members Author:Mark Colvin
“Betsy DeVos, for example, has shown that she’s flatly ignorant of an astounding amount of basic education policy. It might be possible to persuade two or three Republicans to oppose her on these grounds - but only if the entire confirmation process isn’t a pure partisan battle.” IfsTwoMightThreeProcessPolicyExampleAmountRepublicanBattlePureIgnorantPartisansConfirmationBasic Education Author:Kevin Drum
“The teachers union may not like Betsy DeVos, but she's clearly within the range of Republican policy-makers.” MayTeacherPolicyRepublicanUnionsRangeMakersPolicy MakersTeachers Unions Author:David Brooks
“I cringe every time I see no evidence of push-back by the Republican Party on Obama policies.” PartyPolicyRepublicanEvidenceRepublican PartyCringe Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If Hillary Clinton had policies that would more likely make people's lives better than Republicans, I'd be for Hillary. I'm for whoever will do that. I couldn't care less.” PeopleIfsCarePolicyRepublicanClinton Author:Charles Koch
“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
“I think anybody currently running for the presidency on the Republican side by default would be a huge improvement over Obama in every area, including foreign policy and the use of the military.” ThinkingUseWould BeRunningSidesMilitaryPolicyHugeRepublicanAreasIncludingImprovementForeign PolicyPresidencyDefault Author:Rush Limbaugh
“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
“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