“I look forward to standing shoulder to shoulder with Speaker Boehner, Leader Cantor, Whip McCarthy and the entire republican conference as we repeal Obamacare, fight rampant job killing regulations, cut spending and help put folks back to work.” LooksHelpingJobsFightingLeaderCuttingRepublicanStandingKillingFolksSpendingShouldersSpeakersRegulationConferencesWhipsObamacareBack To Work Author:Fred Upton
“On Bill Clinton: "If left to my own devices, I'd spend all my time pointing out that he's weaker than bus-station chili. But the man is so constantly subjected to such hideous and unfair abuse that I wind up standing up for him on the general principle that some fairness should be applied. Besides, no one but a fool or a Republican ever took him for a liberal.” IfsMenShouldLeftMy OwnPrinciplesHe ManWindFoolRepublicanStandingAbuseBillsClintonMy TimeDevicesStationsBusFairnessUnfairPointingHideousChili Author:Molly Ivins
“I’m sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did. I’m not going to be lectured by a stuffed suit White House mouthpiece standing behind a podium...” WarSeemsFoundHouseWhiteBehindsRepublicanStandingSickTiredSuitsWhite HouseDespicableMouthpiece Author:John F. Kerry
“The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The Democrats are plainly a disreputable crowd; the Republicans, by contrast, are men of standing and sobriety. Many a middle-class American in many a small town has had to explain painfully why he chose to be a Democrat. No middle-class American need feel uneasy as a Republican. Even when he is a minority--for example, among the heathen on a college campus--he can, like any white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, warm himself before his little fire of self-esteem.” MenNeedsFeelsLittlesSelfWhiteClassFireFocusMiddleSelf EsteemExampleCollegeRepublicanStandingTownsDemocratCrowdsWarmEsteemMinoritiesMiddle ClassContrastSmall TownProtestantsSobrietyCampusUneasyHeathenAnglo SaxonCollege Campus Author:Clinton Rossiter
“When it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white, and blue party.” WhitePartyRepublicanRedStandingBlueDemocratVeteranRed White And Blue Author:Barbara Mikulski
“Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.” PeopleSelfChristianInterestSimpleVirtueDemocracyLandDutyCitizensRepublicanProtectGoodnessStandingArmyThreatSimplicityMannersRelyRepublicTyrantsImperativesSelf InterestMonarchyCoercionBenevolenceSplendorSobrietyFactionsDazzlingFrugalityPublic GoodYeoman Author:James Monroe
“I really didn't have any bad hitchhiking experiences. The only bad experiences were standing by the road for 10 hours. I never thought I'd get a ride with a ministers wife or a coalminer or a Republican elected official. It was all pleasant surprises. The only drag was the waiting.” WaitingHoursWifeRepublicanStandingSurpriseMinistersPleasantOfficialsDragElected OfficialsHitchhikingBad ExperiencesPleasant Surprises Author:John Waters
“When Pat Buchanan came out against the Beijing Women's Conference and there were women standing next to him, smiling and laughing when he was making fun of it, I was so embarrassed. I don't mind when the more liberal or moderate Republican women talk about smaller government or money issues and things of that nature. But when I see a conservative Republican woman in line with the Christian right or coming out against abortion and day-care issues and for taking away womens' aid, I see a self-hating, unenlightened woman, like a self-hating Jew. That blows my mind. I don't get it at all.” MindSelfGovernmentCareChristianHateNextFunLinesLaughingIssuesRepublicanStandingConservativeBlowJewAidsAbortionComing OutEmbarrassedConferencesModeratesBeijingChristian RightSmile And LaughAgainst AbortionDay CareSmaller Government Author:Janeane Garofalo
“The Democrats are standing on one side, and the Republicans are playing games on the other. Both sides are playing games.” GamesSidesRepublicanStandingDemocratBoth SidesPlaying Games Author:Mark Shields
“Every presidential candidate for decades has released his tax returns, and I've released 33 years of my tax returns. The American people deserve to know about our taxes. And so Donald Trump is standing in the way of precedent that goes back on both sides of aisle Democrats and Republicans, and he clearly has something that he doesn't want us to see.” PeopleKnowsWayWantYearsSidesReturnTrumpRepublicanTaxesDeserveStandingDemocratDecadesPresidentialCandidatesBoth SidesWant UPrecedentAislePresidential CandidateTax Returns Author:Hillary Clinton
“Republicans are going to have to come to the conclusion that there's a political price for standing against 90 percent of their constituents to stand with the gun lobby.” PoliticalRepublicanPercentGunStandingConclusionConstituents Author:Chris Murphy
“I think an increasing number of Republicans are perplexed and actually nervous about Donald Trump and Russia, nervous in the sense that he is gratuitously giving Democrats the national security advantage, that they're standing up for the country.” ThinkingGivingCountryNumbersSecurityTrumpRepublicanAdvantageStandingDemocratRussiaNervousNational SecurityPerplexed Author:Mark Shields