“The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.” NeedsDoeWinningPartyPrinciplesRepublicanStrategyRepublican PartyModerates Author:Bobby Jindal
“Three of the last four [elections], '06, '08, and '12, were disastrous for Republicans. And they were years in which we just we stayed quiet, we went along the get-along, we didn't stand on principle. The only year that was a good year for Republicans was 2010, when we painted in bold colors, not in pale pastels. We stood for principle. I think winning this fight right now is the most important thing we can do to see significant victories in 2014.” ThinkingYearsImportantLastsPoliticalFightingThreePoliticsWinningCan DoCommunityLeadershipJusticePartyPrinciplesFourPolicyColorVictoryRepublicanRight NowQuietElectionImportant ThingsStrategyUnitySignificantIdeologyVotingPalePolitical PartiesPartisanshipGood YearsPastel Author:Ted Cruz
“Today, unfortunately, the right to vote seems to have become a partisan issue. Democrats seek to guarantee and expand voting rights. Republicans try to undermine and suppress voting rights.” TryingSeemsTodayPoliticalPoliticsJusticePartyDemocracyIssuesRightsPolicyRepublicanEqualEthicsVoteStrategyDemocratIdeologyGuaranteesVotingFree SpeechPolitical PartiesEqual RightsPartisansRight To VotePartisanship Author:Donna Brazile
“I think Republicans will not win again in my lifetime ... unless they become a new GOP, a new Republican Party. And it has to be a transformation. Not a little tweaking at the edges.” ThinkingLittlesRealityPoliticalPoliticsWinningPartyGenerationsRepublicanTransformationStrategyLifetimeEdgesIdeologyVotingRepublican PartyPolitical PartiesGop Author:Rand Paul
“The Republicans tend to choose the candidate who came in second place in the last election, and Democrats tend to move on. Ask President Ed Muskie how it worked out to be the front-runner. Ask President Howard Dean how it worked out.” LastsMovingAsksPoliticsPresidentLeadershipComedyFrontsRepublicanElectionStrategyDemocratIdeologyCandidatesRunnersDeanPartisanshipSecond Place Author:Brian Schweitzer
“It looks like Rudy Giuliani is out of the race. Finally, a Republican with an exit strategy.” LooksRaceRepublicanStrategyExitRudy Author:Jay Leno
“With a congressional mandate to run the deficit up as high as need be, there is no reason to raise taxes now and risk aggravating the depression. Instead, Obama will follow the opposite of the Reagan strategy. Reagan cut taxes and increased the deficit so that liberals could not increase spending. Obama will raise spending and increase the deficit so that conservatives cannot cut taxes. And, when the economy is restored, he will raise taxes with impunity, since the only people who will have to pay them would be rich Republicans.” PeopleNeedsReasonWould BeRunningPayEconomyRichCuttingRiskRepublicanTaxesOppositesIncreaseRaisesStrategySpendingNo ReasonDeficitMandatesImpunityAggravating Author:Dick Morris
“Kim Jong-Un is a dangerous leader, without a doubt. And both Republican and Democrat administrations have been completely ineffective in dealing with him. So we must continue to isolate him. We will need China as part of that strategy.” NeedsHas BeensLeaderDoubtDangerousRepublicanStrategyDemocratChinaAdministrationKim Author:Carly Fiorina
“I talked for a long time about that, what I call the hate wing of the Republican Party.And often been criticized for saying it. But there is such a thing, and it started in 1968 with the southern strategy developed by Richard Nixon to bring southern racists out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party, which they succeeded in doing.” LongHatePartyRepublicanLong TimeStrategyWingsDemocraticRacistSouthernRepublican PartyDemocratic Party Author:Howard Dean
“If you get the U.N. to say we're going to solve the Syrian problem, if you get the Russians involved in a productive posture, you are making progress, but the Republican core says no strategy or failed strategy.” IfsProblemProgressInvolvedRepublicanStrategySolveCoreProductivePosture Author:Juan Williams
“I think Senator [Ted] Cruz's strategy is that there's 4.5 million, 5 million Republicans that didn't vote in 2012. This is the conventional wisdom and they didn't vote because they didn't like the nominee, wasn't conservative enough, or there was a religious component. Who knows what?” ThinkingKnowsEnoughReligiousMillionsRepublicanVoteStrategyConservativeConventionalSenatorsComponentsCruzConventional Wisdom Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I did not know in the beginning how important the trip would be but we knew that Iran was in the crosshairs of the Neo-Conservative movement. And when you listen to Mr. Ted Cruz, the Republican presidential hopeful, and when you listen to Mr. Marco Rubio, a Republican presidential candidate, when you listen to their language, it says to me that they are agents of the Neo-Conservative strategy.” KnowsImportantWould BeLanguageMovementRepublicanStrategyConservativeAgentsPresidentialCandidatesHopefulIranCruzMarcosPresidential Candidate Author:Louis Farrakhan
“The white backlash has been at work for a long time. It's been part and parcel of the Republican Party for the last 25 years or so, and it's been highly successful up until Barack Obama was ingeniously able to come up with strategies to deal with it.” YearsLongHas BeensAbleLastsWhiteDealsPartySuccessfulRepublicanLong TimeStrategyCome UpBarackRepublican PartyBacklashParcel Author:Cornel West
“It`s been a long and tumultuous relationship between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz that started off more or less as allies during the Republican primary. As Trump took the early lead in polls, Cruz stuck with the strategy of drafting off of the front-runner waiting for the moment to make his move.” LongMomentsMovingWaitingFrontsTrumpRepublicanStrategyStuckPrimariesAlliesRunnersPollsCruzLead InDrafting Author:Chris Hayes
“I've worked with 10 presidents. It's a record. I worked with Republicans and Democrats. All of them when it came to Israel were, movingly, friendly. From Truman, who was the first to recognize Israel 11 minutes after the U.N. resolution, to Obama. When it comes to the major issues of security and strategy, we are together, completely.” FirstsTogetherPresidentIssuesRecordsMinutesSecurityRepublicanMajorsStrategyDemocratIsraelFriendlyResolutionTruman Author:Shimon Peres
“I think just focusing on the wealth of these cabinet picks misunderstands [Donald] Trump's economic strategy here, which is going to be equal parts traditional Republican economics.” ThinkingWealthEconomicTrumpRepublicanEqualPicksEconomicsStrategyTraditionalCabinets Author:Rich Lowry
“Progressives are the majority; we won the popular vote by a long shot and Donald Trump and the congressional Republicans representing mainly rich old white men are a minority. If we stand up together and use the effective strategies and tactics the tea party used, we believe we can stop them.” IfsMenBelieveLongUseTogetherUsedWhitePartyRichTrumpRepublicanShotsVoteMajorityStrategyTeaMinoritiesWhite ManTacticsRepresentingTea PartyPopular VoteLong Shots Author:Ezra G. Levin
“I do think [Barack Obama's] strategy for re-election is so misguided. He's counting on the Republicans to self-destruct, and they might, you know, but they might not. So he might be a one-term president.” ThinkingKnowsSelfMightPresidentTermRepublicanElectionStrategyBarackCountingMisguidedSelf Destruct Author:Bill Ayers