“Before it was emails, it was Benghazi, and the Republicans were stirring up so much controversy about that. And I testified for 11 hours, answered their questions. They basically said yeah, didn't get her. We tried. That was all a political ploy.” SaidPoliticalHoursRepublicanYeahEmailControversyStirringPloyBenghazi Author:Hillary Clinton
“Pope Francis said the use of contraception could be justified in regions hit by the Zika virus; a stance that could reignite a debate over the church's prohibition of the use of condoms to stop the spread of the AIDS virus. The pope also criticized Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as 'not Christian' for his immigration stance, and broke with his predecessors by suggesting that Catholic lawmakers are free to vote for same-sex marriage and civil unions if they want to.” IfsWantSaidUseChristianSexChurchTrumpRepublicanVoteCatholicUnionsSpreadAidsDebateImmigrationBrokePresidentialCandidatesRegionsPopeJustifiedVirusesProhibitionStanceSuggestingPredecessorsCondomPresidential CandidateContraceptionLawmakers Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Here is a needle President Obama needs to thread if he chooses a ninth. The nominee would need to be so strongly qualified that he or she would be hard to reject. The person must also be willing to be nominated even though leading Senate Republicans have said they will not consider anyone the president names.” IfsNeedsPersonsSaidHardWould BeNamesPresidentWillingRepublicanCourtSupremeRejectsPresident ObamaSenateThreadSupreme CourtQualifiedNeedles Author:Steve Inskeep
“The Republican candidates clashed on terrorism, immigration and foreign policy in their fifth debate.They all said President [Barack] Obama and Hillary Clinton have not kept America safe.” SaidAmericaPresidentPolicyRepublicanSafeClintonTerrorismDebateImmigrationBarackCandidatesForeign PolicyFifthPresident Barack Obama Author:Renee Montagne
“Republican party leaders have been worrying about the damage a [Donald] Trump nomination could do to the party, but also what might happen if he left the GOP and took his supporters with him. But Trump said he would stay a Republican and do everything in his power to beat Hillary Clinton.” IfsHas BeensSaidMightHappensLeftPartyLeaderWorryTrumpRepublicanBeatsClintonDamageSupporterRepublican PartyNominationsGop Author:Ted Cruz
“Marco Rubio said he was personally open over a long period of time to offering a path to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. Rubio's work on a comprehensive immigration bill is one of his biggest vulnerabilities with Republican primary voters.” LongSaidPathPeriodsRepublicanBillsImmigrationPrimariesVulnerabilityImmigrantsVotersOfferingCitizenshipComprehensiveLong Periods Of TimeMarcos Author:Ted Cruz
“I was speaking on the radio in South Texas [in 2016], and I was speaking to Hispanics, and I said 'You know, you probably vote Democrat because your parents always voted Democrat, and your grandparents always voted Democrat, but let me tell you something. Thirty years ago in Texas, there were two parties - liberal Democrats and conservative Democrats. Looking at your principles, your values as Hispanics, in all probability your parents were conservative Democrats. The conservative Democrats of 30 years ago are Republicans today!'” KnowsYearsSaidTwoTodayValuesParentPartyPrinciplesRepublicanYears AgoVoteLet MeDemocratSouthConservativeRadioThirtyTexasGrandparentProbabilityThirty Years Author:Rafael Cruz
“[Donald] Trump, I think, understands it. He has said this is going to be a new Republican Party, a workers' Republican Party, instead of just the elite Republican Party.” ThinkingSaidPartyTrumpRepublicanWorkersElitesRepublican Party Author:Jeff Sessions
“I once said, "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." When Bobby Jindal entered the Republican campaign, my comment should have been covered again, more prominently. I mean, Jindal is not Native American, he's a real Indian.” ShouldMeanHas BeensSaidRealRepublicanShould HaveCampaignsIndianNativeCoveredCommentNative AmericanAccentsElevenShould Have BeenDonutsDunkin Donuts Author:Joe Biden
“I said something recently about how the president [Barak Obama] should stop trying to placate the crazies and the right wing and the Republicans and stand up for the 70 percent of Americans who are not insane and stand up for the people who actually voted for you. That hit a real nerve.” PeopleShouldTryingSaidRealPresidentRepublicanPercentWingsInsaneNervesRight WingStop TryingBarak Obama Author:Bill Maher
“God says, "Come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven." We don't need the Democratic Party. We don't need the Republican Party. We can get a little from both of them, but Elijah Muhammad said we need to form our own political machine.! A machine that works for the oppressed: The oppressed Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, White.” PeopleNeedsLittlesSaidFormPoliticalHeavenBlackSinWhitePartyRepublicanRedMachinesDemocraticBrownYellowOppressedRepublican PartyPlagueDemocratic PartyMuhammadElijahElijah Muhammad Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Donald Trump is now said that he wants to have a plan that's more harmonized with what House Republicans under speaker Paul Ryan have proposed.” WantSaidHousePlansTrumpRepublicanSpeakers Author:Avik Roy
“While Donald Trump said, well, our plan won't be exactly like the House Republican plan, the closer it is to that plan, the less likely it is to increase the deficit.” WellsSaidHousePlansTrumpRepublicanIncreaseDeficit Author:Avik Roy
“[Donald] Trump comes along and is singing a different song. He says, "I don't need your money; I'm rich enough on my own to run." And he says, "I think we need these programs." And, lo and behold, a lot of Republican voters liked what he said.” ThinkingNeedsSaidDifferentEnoughRunningSongMy OwnRichTrumpRepublicanSingingProgramVoters Author:Jane Mayer
“In the primary debates for the 2016 election, every single Republican candidate was a climate change denier, with one exception, John Kasich - the "rational moderate" - who said it may be happening but we shouldn't do anything about it. For a long time, the media have downplayed the issue.” MayLongSaidIssuesMediaRepublicanLong TimeHappeningsElectionClimateClimate ChangeDebateRationalPrimariesCandidatesExceptionModeratesClimate Change Deniers Author:Noam Chomsky
“Let me speak to you as someone who is a republican, like Stuart Stevens who worked for Romney, right? He said if Barack Obama in '08 had said, oh, you know, [Vladimir] Putin is better than George W. Bush as a leader, he said republicans would have said Obama, get out of the race. You're a disgrace to the American people.” PeopleIfsKnowsSaidSpeakRaceLeaderRepublicanLet MeBarackRomneyDisgracePutin Author:Eric Bolling
“[Vladimir] Putin supporting Bashar al-Assad, helping with the Syrian refugee crisis and, I think for any republican, he [Donald Trump] has got to stop saying this, because I was with him. I was with him and he said that, it was like, I'm out. I'm out. It's too crazy.” ThinkingSaidHelpingCrazyTrumpRepublicanCrisisAlsRefugeePutinAssadRefugee CrisisSyrian RefugeesBashar Al Assad Author:John McCain
“It's one of the reasons [Vladimir Putin invitation to U.S] why 50 national security officials who served in Republican information - in administrations have said that Donald [Trump] is unfit to be the commander- in-chief. It's comments like that that really worry people who understand the threats that we face.” PeopleSaidReasonFacesWorrySecurityInformationTrumpRepublicanThreatChiefsAdministrationOfficialsCommentNational SecurityInvitationsCommandersPutinCommander In Chief Author:Hillary Clinton
“The worst part of what we heard Donald [trump] say has been about nuclear weapons. He has said repeatedly that he didn't care if other nations got nuclear weapons, Japan, South Korea, even Saudi Arabia. It has been the policy of the United States, Democrats and Republicans, to do everything we could to reduce the proliferation of nuclear weapons.” IfsHas BeensSaidStatesCareNationsUnitedUnited StatesHeardWorstPolicyTrumpRepublicanWeaponsDemocratSouthNuclearJapanNuclear WeaponsKoreaArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisProliferationSouth Korea Author:Hillary Clinton
“As a Republican, I have listened to Democrats talk about the only two times we won the White House in like 200 years that we stole both elections. I had to sit through Fahrenheit 9/11 and a lady was sobbing violently behind me about the election being stolen by George Bush and I patted her half way through and said, 'it's alright, it's alright. It's all a lie anyway.' Democrats have been whining for 16 years, they're still writing articles about how Bush stole the election in 2004 and 2000.” WayWritingYearsHas BeensSaidStillsTwoLyingHouseWhiteBehindsHalfRepublicanElectionDemocratWhite HouseArticlesStolenAlrightWhiningSobbingHalf Way Author:Joe Scarborough
“You are sitting here defending an assault on American democracy. Somebody probably said nice things about anybody at a given point. This is an unprecedented event that was done at the behest of the House Republicans that was leaked to the press by the House Republicans.” SaidDoneHouseGivenDemocracyNiceEventsRepublicanSittingPressesAssaultUnprecedentedNice ThingsAmerican Democracy Author:James Carville
“The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.” SaidStatesFactsMightUnitedUnited StatesRepublicanConservativeCampaignsAbortionAppropriateFriendlySenateTomsPenaltiesDeath Penalty Author:Barack Obama
“When [my dad] was at the University of Michigan, my mom was a social-worker. As he rose, he voted for [Adlai] Stevenson initially. Then he voted for [Dwight] Eisenhower. Then he kept voting Republican until he voted for Barack Obama. So that's kind of amazing. But he was offered a cabinet post by Eisenhower in his second term. So he was moderate Republican. But if you asked him, he would've said, "I don't have any politics. I'm a business person." Mainstream, the American view, as he understood it.” IfsKindPersonsSaidSocialTermViewsMomDadRepublicanUnderstoodRoseWorkersUniversityMy DadMy MomBarackPostsVotingMainstreamModeratesCabinetsMichiganSocial WorkerBusiness PersonDwightDwight EisenhowerUniversity Of MichiganVoting Republican Author:Bill Ayers
“[Donald Trump] has to have and he said he is going to have a transition element for those states, like in Florida, he's, you know, Republican governors who have put in some form of it. They has to be a transition through it.” KnowsSaidStatesFormTrumpRepublicanElementsTransitionGovernorsFlorida Author:Mary Matalin
“Republican Michigan Congressman Justin Amash said, no president is allowed to burn the first amendment.” FirstsSaidPresidentRepublicanAmendmentsFirst AmendmentMichiganCongressmanJustin Author:Chuck Todd
“Newt Gingrich gave voice to something that was said throughout this campaign from Democrats and Republicans.” SaidVoiceRepublicanDemocratCampaignsNewts Author:Chuck Todd
“Donald Trump has said he wants to keep Medicare and Social Security the way they are. Congressman Price along with most Republicans are on record supporting voucherizing Medicare. So there are going to be some conflicts to resolve there.” WayWantSaidSocialRecordsSecurityTrumpRepublicanConflictResolveSocial SecurityMedicareCongressman Author:Mara Liasson
“I remember we [with Donald Trump] were sitting in a meeting and he walked in and he looked at me and he said - maybe five or six of us in there - and he said, "Are you the first woman to ever run a presidential campaign?" And so the guys in the room said, "First Republican woman." And I said - you know, I always think of Susan Estrich and Mary Kay and Donna Brazile, and respect them enormously; know one of them very well. And I said, "Well, I'm the first Republican one."” ThinkingKnowsFirstsWellsSaidRunningRememberGuyRoomsFiveTrumpRepublicanSixSittingMeetingsCampaignsPresidentialMaryPresidential CampaignMary Kay Author:Kellyanne Conway
“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
“Donald Trump has defined himself very well, not only in the primary election where he was absolutely disrespectful to his colleagues on the Republican side of the aisle and for [Carly] Fiorina who he basically said who would vote for you? Look at her face. She evidently wants to be a Republican leadership, a part of the Republican Party so bad that she would allow them and him to get away with that.” WantWellsLooksSaidFacesSidesPartyTrumpRepublicanVoteElectionDefinedPrimariesGet AwayColleaguesRepublican PartyAisleDisrespectful Author:Maxine Waters
“The Washington Post said that 50% of the contributors of the Republican Party were Jewish and 70% of the Democratic Party. That's 2% and they control America.” SaidAmericaPartyRepublicanDemocraticPostsRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyContributors Author:David Duke
“The one thing I've said to [Donald Trump] directly, and I would advise my Republican friends in Congress and supporters around the country, is just make sure that, as we go forward certain norms, certain institutional traditions don't get eroded, because there's a reason they're in place.” SaidCountryReasonCertainOne ThingTrumpRepublicanTraditionCongressSupporterNormAdvise Author:Barack Obama
“I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting the government off your back, lowering the taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, I said, "What party is he?" My friend said, "He's a Republican." I said, "Then I am a Republican."” SaidGovernmentSpeakPartyTalkingHeardAirMilitaryListeningRepublicanTaxesMy FriendsBreathsEnterpriseStrengtheningFresh AirFree Enterprise Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Steve Bannon went to the Conservative Political Action Conference and he said that there was a very important historical turning point, getting rid of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. And the Republican Party has stood for that for as long as I have been alive.” LongHas BeensSaidImportantActionPoliticalPartyAliveRepublicanHistoricalConservativePartnershipRepublican PartyConferencesTransPacificTurning PointsPolitical ActionConservative Political Author:Mark Shields
“[The Republicans] looked at basically the failed wars and they said, oh, this, us being the policeman of the world, that is not working.” WorldSaidWarRepublicanThey SaidPolicemen Author:Mark Shields
“Folks, let me ask you a question about that. You voted in 2010, 2014. You're part of the Tea Party and you show up and you just vote. Republicans said they needed the House, and you gave it to 'em; then they said they needed the Senate, and you gave it to 'em. Do you feel like winners even after those two elections? Probably not, because you really didn't think the Republican Party was going to change their stripes and start acting on all this.” ThinkingFeelsSaidTwoShowsAsksHousePartyActingNeededRepublicanVoteLet MeElectionFolksTeaWinnerEmsSenateThey SaidRepublican PartyTea PartyStripes Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As somebody who didn't support [Donald] Trump but works in the LGBTQ space, it was unprecedented that Donald Trump stood on that stage and accepted the Republican nomination and then said he would fight for LGBTQ people.” PeopleSaidFightingSpaceSupportStageTrumpRepublicanAcceptedUnprecedentedNominations Author:Margaret Hoover
“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
“I'm very liberal in some ways, and then I'm very conservative in others. I once asked my grandpa, "Are you a Republican or a Democrat?" He said, "I'm a Democrat, but I'm saving up to be a Republican."” WaySaidRepublicanDemocratConservativeSavingGrandpaSaving Up Author:Kenny Chesney
“I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one.” PeopleIfsFirstsSaidCareRepublicanCome UpHealth CareCheaperForums Author:Barack Obama
“I'm skeptical that [the Republicans] can do [something better with healthcare] mainly because for seven years now, including when we first tried to pass health care, I said to 'em, "Okay, if [Obamacare] doesn't work tell me what does."” IfsYearsFirstsDoeSaidCareCan DoRepublicanOkaySevenIncludingHealth CareEmsHealthcareSeven YearsSkepticalSomething BetterObamacareCan Do Something Author:Barack Obama