“Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans.” PeopleActionFacesCoursesAttentionResponsibilityRepublicanCreditHopefullyAttention SpanOversightPrincipledShort Attention Spans Author:Barbara Olson
“I am a Republican because I believe in the constitution, strength in national defense, limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility as the concrete foundation for American government. They reinforce the resolve that the United States is the greatest country in the world and we can all be eternally grateful to our founding fathers for the beautiful legacy they left us today.” WorldBelieveCountryStatesGovernmentTodayBeautifulFatherIndividualLeftI BelieveUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesRepublicanConstitutionFoundationGratefulI Believe InDefenseLegacyResolveConcreteFoundingPersonal ResponsibilityOur Founding FathersLimited GovernmentAmerican GovernmentIndividual FreedomNational Defense Author:Martha Raye
“I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.” ThinkingMayLittlesPresidentEffortResponsibilityRepublicanStandardsDemocratCongressResistingMacsMae Author:William J. Clinton
“I have gone from a Barry Goldwater Republican to a New Democrat, but I think my underlying values have remained pretty constant; individual responsibility and community. I do not see those as being mutually inconsistent.” ThinkingValuesIndividualCommunityResponsibilityGoneRepublicanConstantDemocratInconsistentIndividual Responsibility Author:Hillary Clinton
“I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.” ThinkingGovernmentIndividualStrongResponsibilityLibertyRepublicanDefenseTraditionalFreedom And LibertyLimited GovernmentIndividual FreedomNational DefenseFiscal Responsibility Author:Olympia Snowe
“The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored people is one which, however it might be received in some other quarters, could not possibly be permitted by one who feels a responsibility for living up to the traditions and maintaining the principles of the Republican Party. Our Constitution guarantees equal rights to all our citizens, without discrimination on account of race or color. I have taken my oath to support that Constitution.” FeelsMightPoliticalPartyRaceResponsibilityPrinciplesSupportTakenRightsGroupsColorCitizensRepublicanEqualTraditionAccountsConstitutionPopulationDiscriminationCivil RightsAfrican AmericanGuaranteesQuartersSuggestionsRepublican PartyMaintainingEqual RightsOathPolitical Rights Author:Calvin Coolidge
“So we, Democrats, have a responsibility there, every one of us, both to try to treat the Republicans with respect and as human beings to try to work with them on every issue we can, and then if those cannons are fired at us, we've got to stand up and fight back. If you lay down and you look like a deer caught in the headlights, then you will confirm the assault. And so we have to fight back.” IfsTryingHumansLooksFightingHuman BeingsResponsibilityIssuesRepublicanTreatsDown AndLaysDemocratCaughtAssaultDeerCannonsHeadlights Author:William J. Clinton
“Certainly the Republican Party changed and I never changed, as I became an independent my values never changed whether it's on fiscal responsibility, environment or using government tools to help the less fortunate.” HelpingGovernmentValuesPartyResponsibilityEnvironmentChangedRepublicanToolsIndependentFortunateRepublican PartyNever ChangeLess FortunateFiscal Responsibility Author:Lincoln Chafee
“The question of whether we were misled into the war in Iraq isn't a liberal or conservative or Republican or Democratic question, it's an American one. Protecting the democracy that we ask our sons and daughters to die for is our responsibility and our trust. Demanding accountability from our leaders is our job as citizens. It's the American way. So may the truth win out.” WayMayWarJobsDiesAsksWinningResponsibilityLeaderDemocracySonCitizensRepublicanDaughterDemocraticIraqConservativeAccountabilityMisledSon And Daughter Author:Bruce Springsteen
“This is something the Democrats have talked about, and a goal we share, getting everyone insured, and solving the issue in a Republican way, which is applying a personal responsibility principle (individual mandate), reforming the market (more strictly regulating the insurance companies), and allowing people to buy private health care insurance that they can take with them from job to job that's entirely affordable. So it's a Republican way of solving a problem that we face as a nation.” PeopleWayProblemCareJobsFacesIndividualNationsGoalResponsibilityCompanyPrinciplesIssuesShareRepublicanDemocratHealth CareAllowingPersonal ResponsibilityAffordableMandatesInsurance Companies Author:Mitt Romney
“I've voted for Republicans who were strong on defense, who believed in a free and open economy but who also understood that there's a place for government in our lives, that government has a responsibility to those of our citizens who are in need and those of our citizens who are needy of health care.” NeedsGovernmentCareStrongResponsibilityEconomyOur LivesCitizensRepublicanUnderstoodDefenseHealth CareNeedy Author:Colin Powell
“Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates, and they become, in behavior if not in thought, adherents of the woolly idea of a 'living Constitution.' They endorse, by their passivity, the idea that new threats justify ignoring the Framers' text and logic about shared responsibility for war-making.” IfsIdeasWarGovernmentBeliefResponsibilityRepublicanBehaviorLogicConstitutionThreatJustifyConstructionStrictPresidencyUnlimitedDefendersLimited GovernmentPassivityFramersEnablersShared Responsibility Author:George Will
“And they are much more skeptical of the very idea of having immigration limits, whereas the public - again, independents and Democrats, as well as Republicans, although not necessarily all in the same proportions - have a much stronger sense of the American government and American law having responsibility to Americans specifically rather than to people around the world. So the polarization is up versus down, not really right versus left.” PeopleWorldWellsIdeasGovernmentLawLeftResponsibilityRepublicanLimitsStrongerDemocratImmigrationAround The WorldProportionVersusSkepticalAmerican GovernmentPolarizationAmerican Law Author:Mark Krikorian
“I still don't feel responsible for what Donald Trump says or does. But I do feel a responsibility as president of the United States to make sure that I facilitate a good transition and I present to him as well, as the American people my best thinking, my best ideas about how you move the country forward. To speak out with respect to areas where I think the Republican party's wrong, but to pledge to work with them on those things that I think will advance the causes of security and prosperity and justice and inclusiveness in America.” PeopleThinkingFeelsWellsDoeStillsIdeasCountryStatesAmericaMovingSpeakCausesPresidentJusticeUnitedPartyResponsibilityUnited StatesSecurityTrumpRepublicanAreasResponsibleProsperityTransitionRepublican PartyPledgeSpeaks OutFacilitateInclusiveness Author:Barack Obama
“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.” PastPoliticalPoliticsAnswersResponsibilityAcceptingRepublicanBlameDemocraticProblem Solving4th Of JulyDemocratic PartyPersonal ResponsibilityDemocratic SocietyRight AnswersNew FrontiersDomestic PolicyBrush StrokesDemocratic RightsPolitics Today Author:John F. Kennedy
“One of the prime backers of land bill was a Republican Congressman, a Paul Gosar. And when he was challenged by an Apache on this bill, he said, well, you know, Indians are wards of the federal government. This happened recently.That congressperson is obviously stuck in the 19th century when he thinks about Indians. How is that person going to legislate and treat Indians fairly and respect their rights when he has this sort of infantilized image of Indians as not being, you know, up to the same level of responsibility as everybody else?” ThinkingResponsibilityRepublicanStuck19th Century Author:Robert A. Williams, Jr.