“It`s basically a united [Republican ] party behind [Donald Trump] and Cruz`s numbers in Texas were plummeting and he was facing a possible primary challenge and this cements that this is the party of Trump.” ChallengesUnitedPartyNumbersBehindsTrumpRepublicanPrimariesTexasRepublican PartyCementCruz Author:Chris Hayes
“I don't want to comment on media outlets, but I will tell you that if the Republican Party does not evolve, the Republican Party is going to die.” IfsWantDoeDiesPartyMediaRepublicanEvolveCommentRepublican PartyOutlets Author:John Kasich
“The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction and mental illness and the cost of prescription drugs and healthcare and student debt and all of these things are very personal to people now.” PeopleKnowsPartyIssuesStudentsRepublicanCostDrugTradeAddictionIllnessDebtMental IllnessImmigrantsHealthcareRepublican PartyPrescriptionsDrug AddictionDrug AddictPrescription Drugs Author:John Kasich
“If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.” IfsWayWantWinningPartyRepublicanMajorsDebateRepublican PartyIdeological Author:John Kasich
“There are no winners in this election [2016]. I paid attention to it for about two months and then it just started to depress me. At least Hillary's [Clinton] a politician, but the fact that you've got a guy from a reality TV show! I have to say, out of everything I've ever watched in sports - the greatest comebacks ever - watching [Donald Trump] get the nomination for the Republican Party is the most astounding thing I've ever seen.” TwoFactsShowsRealityGuySportsPartyAttentionTvsMonthsTrumpPoliticianRepublicanPaidElectionClintonWinnerDepressingTv ShowsRepublican PartyComebackTwo MonthsNominationsReality TvNo Winners Author:Bill Burr
“I want to see what the Green Party looks like. I think if people don't start voting what they feel, if that's something other than the Democratic Party or the Republican Party, then nothing's going to change. You need more political parties that actually have a chance.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantNeedsFeelsLooksPoliticalChancePartyRepublicanGreenDemocraticVotingRepublican PartyPolitical PartiesDemocratic PartyGreen Party Author:Viggo Mortensen
“Here you have the Republican Party, and they had, what, 16, 15 candidates seek the Republican nomination? And Donald Trump won it. And they have been enraged actually since day one when Trump announced, and his statement did not result in a Trump implosion, and then future Trump statements and appearances did not result in a Trump implosion. But the candidates that the Republican Party...They thought they had the best presidential field ever, and they hated and resented Trump for that.” Has BeensResultsPartyFieldsTrumpRepublicanAppearanceStatementsHatedPresidentialCandidatesRepublican PartyNominations Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican Party cannot win the White House anymore with just conservative and Republican votes.” HouseWinningWhitePartyRepublicanVoteConservativeWhite HouseRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Donald] Trump is winning because people that vote Republican have been let down and disappointed one too many times, and their instinct is being borne out here. The Republican Party is not interested in winning.” PeopleHas BeensWinningPartyTrumpRepublicanVoteDown AndInstinctDisappointedNot InterestedRepublican PartyLet Down Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican Party clearly is not interested in winning. And if you want to be even more specific than that, it is paramountly obvious that they're not even interested in defeating the Democrats.” IfsWantWinningPartyRepublicanDemocratObviousNot InterestedRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Republican voters and people all over this country are fed up with what Democrat leftist policies are doing to this country, and they want it stopped, and the only agency that can stop it has been the Republican Party, and they have refused to!” PeopleWantHas BeensCountryPartyPolicyRepublicanDemocratAgencyFedsVotersRepublican PartyFed UpLeftists Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican Party has steadfastly sided with its donors and its lobbyists, and this is why we're where we are.” PartyRepublicanRepublican PartyDonorsLobbyists Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican Party is in a predicament that it made itself. It made its own bed, and now they don't want to lay in it.” WantMadePartyRepublicanBedLaysRepublican PartyPredicaments Author:Rush Limbaugh
“All of these years I've been doing my program I was under the impression the Republican Party wanted to beat Democrats. And as the years have gone by, it's become obvious to me that that's not their number one objective.” YearsWantedPartyNumbersGoneRepublicanBeatsProgramDemocratObviousImpressionObjectivesRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We can't unify around a single premise! Name one thing the Republican Party today could unify on. You can't.” TodayNamesPartyOne ThingRepublicanRepublican PartyPremises Author:Rush Limbaugh
“We can't stand any more! We don't want any more of what we've had to put up with for eight years and many years prior. The country we know and love is being torn apart and rebuilt in ways that we don't want, and the Republican Party doesn't even seem to care about that.” KnowsWayWantYearsCountrySeemsCareLove IsPartyRepublicanAnd LoveEightRepublican PartyTornTorn Apart Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican Party seems just as eager as the Democrats to pronounce their voters as extreme kooks.” SeemsPartyRepublicanDemocratExtremesVotersRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Where would the Republican Party being without talk radio the last 25 years? And yet who now is enemy number one? Talk radio! I don't know what I did to Michael Gerson, but he's back again in the Washington Post blaming everything [Donald] Trump on me.” KnowsYearsLastsPartyNumbersEnemyTrumpRepublicanBlameRadioPostsRepublican PartyBack AgainTalk Radio Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Isn't it just heart-stopping and mind-numbing when you stop and realize that the Republican Party doesn't want to win?” WantMindHeartWinningRealizingPartyRepublicanRepublican PartyStoppingNumbing Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican Party does not want to defeat Democrats.” WantDoePartyRepublicanDemocratDefeatRepublican Party 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 isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.” PartyRepublicanDocumentsRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time.” KnowsPartyRepublicanDemocratScaredTeaRepublican PartyTea Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The other theory of the case - and it`s not just one that people opposed to him politically believe, but also people who share the Republican Party`s beliefs or conservative, but don`t like Donald Trump, is that he`s fundamentally a narcissist who has become addicted to the attention, is sort of compulsively driven by attention, and this has given him an outlet for that attention, and crucially doesn`t actually care about the party that he is nominally representing.” PeopleBelieveCareBeliefGivenPartyAttentionCasesShareTheoryTrumpRepublicanConservativeDrivenJust OneRepublican PartyOutletsRepresentingNarcissist Author:Chris Hayes
“I think [Donald Trump's] incentives are not aligned with the Republican Party. I mean, they are part of the time, but they`re not all of the time.” ThinkingMeanPartyTrumpRepublicanRepublican PartyIncentives Author:Michelle Goldberg
“The largest bloc of voters now has divorced the Democratic and Republican parties, which are now minority parties and the plurality of voters now are independent. They're looking for something else.” PartyRepublicanIndependentDemocraticMinoritiesVotersRepublican PartyDivorced Author:Jill Stein
“The anti-slavery parties were also called spoilers, including the Republican party that went on not just to abolish slavery but they actually take over the Presidency moving very quickly from third-party into the Presidency.” MovingPartyRepublicanThirdsSlaveryIncludingPresidencyRepublican PartyAbolishThird PartiesSpoilersAnti Slavery Author:Jill Stein
“We've seen the Republican Party come apart at the seam with Donald Trump taking the remnants over the cliff. We've seen the basic foundation of the Republican Party move into the Democratic Party inside of Hillary's campaign.” MovingPartyTrumpRepublicanFoundationDemocraticCampaignsRepublican PartyCliffsDemocratic PartyRemnants Author:Jill Stein
“We have a Democratic Party that cannot defend the American people from the worst Republican Party in history because it's a Democratic Party of war and Wall Street.” PeopleWarPartyStreetsWorstWallRepublicanDemocraticRepublican PartyDemocratic Party Author:Ralph Nader
“As those states and others in the South and West become more diverse and educated, they will become harder for the Republican Party - in its current form - to win.” StatesFormWinningPartyRepublicanHarderWestSouthCurrentsEducatedDiverseRepublican Party Author:Mara Liasson
“Because the Republican Party are filled with cowards they're afraid to reach out to the Hispanic community, they're afraid to reach out to the black community.” BlackCommunityPartyRepublicanFilledCowardReach OutRepublican PartyHispanicBlack Community Author:Andrew Breitbart
“It is hard to imagine a choice more stark than the choice between Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party, a clear establishment figure, and Stephen Bannon, a leader of the right-wing, the guy - Breitbart News Network, somebody who spent most of the time beating up on the Republican establishment.” HardGuyChoicesPartyLeaderClearImagineFiguresRepublicanNewsWingsEstablishmentRepublican PartyChairmanRight WingStarks Author:George Stephanopoulos
“If the Republican Party continues to have a different message for every different group, they're gonna die. We already have a party that does that, and they own it. It's called the Democrat Party.” IfsDoeDifferentDiesPartyGroupsRepublicanMessagesDemocratRepublican Party Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you thought Donald Trump was going to be swallowed up by the conventional Republican Party or by Washington, you were wrong.” IfsPartyTrumpRepublicanConventionalRepublican Party Author:David Brooks
“A lot of Muslims, a lot of Arab Americans, Muslim Americans were very attracted to the Republican Party - conservative social values and so on. But Trump has horrified them.” ValuesSocialPartyTrumpRepublicanConservativeRepublican PartySocial Values Author:Rashid Khalidi
“I believe in the principles of the Republican Party.” BelieveI BelievePartyPrinciplesRepublicanI Believe InRepublican Party Author:Karl Rove
“Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.” GivingChancePartyRepublicanBe YouDominantRepublican Party Author:Karl Rove
“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
“I think that to the extent that we focus on problems where we can build a moral and a political consensus, then I think that we move the country forward and when we are divided and our politics is focused on dividing, then I think we're less successful, not just from the perspective of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party but from the perspective of the nation as a whole.” ThinkingCountryWholeProblemMovingPoliticalNationsPartyMoralSuccessfulFocusPerspectiveRepublicanDemocraticFocusedDividedRepublican PartyConsensusDemocratic PartyDividing Author:Barack Obama
“You have the Republican Party, who see themselves in their heart of hearts as being a party of colorblind meritocracy. That's their great belief about themselves. And yet somehow you also have a party where a lot of racial resentment and a camp of even neo-Nazis have set up camp in their party. If you point it out to them, they get mad at you, not at the neo-Nazis.” IfsHeartBeliefPartyRepublicanMadCampsResentmentNaziRepublican PartyMeritocracy Author:Van Jones
“If there are few conservatives in the senate wing of the Republican Party that will say no to a budget that never balances, we could have the power to say to the leadership, you know what, need a better budget.” IfsKnowsNeedsPartyBalanceRepublicanWingsBudgetsSenateRepublican Party Author:Rand Paul
“We're going to cut taxes, deregulate to try to create general pro-growth conditions, at the same time, much more than any other Republican ever before, [Donald Trump] is going to focus on trying to tighten the labor market directly through discouraging outsourcing and tightening up on immigration, all towards the goal of actually increasing wages, that's a new focus for the Republican Party and a very important one.” TryingImportantGoalGrowthPartyFocusCuttingConditionsTrumpRepublicanTaxesLaborImmigrationWagesRepublican PartyDiscouragingOutsourcing Author:Rich Lowry
“On the question of opposition, I think there are - when you want to send a signal if you're on the Democratic side that this is a very right wing cabinet at odds with so much of what [Donald] Trump said. And it's also going to be fascinating to see if your Republican Party in the congress actually goes along with those aspects of the Trump plan that are designed to raise wages.” IfsThinkingWantSaidSidesPartyPlansTrumpRepublicanAspectRaisesWingsDemocraticCongressOppositionFascinatingOddsWagesRepublican PartySignalsRight WingCabinets Author:E. J. Dionne
“The most powerful country in world history, which is sure to set its stamp on what follows, placed the entire government (executive, legislative, judicial branches) in the hands of an organization - the Republican Party - dedicated to escalating the race to disaster.” WorldCountryHandsGovernmentPowerfulPartyRaceRepublicanOrganizationDisasterBranchesExecutivesMost PowerfulDedicatedRepublican PartyStampsWorld HistoryJudicialEscalatingJudicial BranchPowerful Countries Author:Noam Chomsky
“The story of the Republican Party is of a far-right that has moved from the fringes of the party to a complete domination of the party. The moderate, mainstream and pragmatic leaders of the party have been pushed out or died off.” Has BeensStoriesPartyLeaderRepublicanDiedMovedMainstreamRepublican PartyDominationModeratesFringePragmatic Author:Jonathan Chait
“Because many people remembered a time when the Republican Party was not so extreme, and hadn't full grasped how much it had changed, people blamed Obama for his failure to get Republicans to agree with him. That blame coloured so much of how the public saw Obama during his presidency. The public thought he was dealing with a brand of Republican leader that just didn't exist any more.” PeoplePartyLeaderSawsChangedRepublicanAgreeBlameExtremesBrandsRememberedPresidencyRepublican Party Author:Jonathan Chait
“One of the things we've learned during the Obama era is how important norms are, because we've seen how the Republican Party behaved against Obama. So much of what they did was to smash pre-existing norms, which were nothing more than assumptions of how people would behave, which didn't have any real basis in rules or limits.” PeopleImportantRealPartyRepublicanLimitsBasesErasBehaveAssumptionRepublican PartyNorm Author:Jonathan Chait
“At best, Trumpism will be a more right-wing version of the same old Republican Party.” PartyRepublicanWingsVersionsRepublican PartyRight Wing Author:Jonathan Chait
“Even the Republican Party doesn't have the legs to challenge Hillary Clinton.” ChallengesPartyRepublicanClintonLegsRepublican Party Author:Jackie Mason
“Only the Republican Party cares about the issues that concern me.” CarePartyIssuesRepublicanConcernRepublican Party Author:Jackie Mason