“The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.” CountryTodayPartyStruggleRepublicanClubsRepublican PartyVersusModeratesAlleysBowlingInsidersCountry ClubsBowling Alleys Author:Pete du Pont
“When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances for waiting and for patience is over. Too many lives have been lost, too many billions of dollars have been spent for us to trust the president on another tired and failed policy that's opposed by generals and experts, Democrats and Republicans, Americans and many of the Iraqis themselves.” GivingHas BeensWarCountryAmericaLostWaitingPresidentEffortStrugglePolicyPromiseRepublicanDemocratIraqTerrorBillionsExpertsAssuranceIraq WarPatience And WaitingRefocus Author:Barack Obama
“the miserable specimens who call themselves ' liberals ' are really conservatives: they're desperately even hysterically defending a welfare-warfare kleptocracy that is now at least four generations old, against growing numbers of us (unlike Republicans , who seem to become more ignorant with every passing year) who have actually managed to learn something from history and are struggling to dismantle said kleptocracy.” YearsSaidSeemsNumbersStruggleFourGrowingGenerationsRepublicanPassingIgnorantPassingsMiserableWelfareWarfareFour Generations Author:L. Neil Smith
“The most momentous fact about the pattern of American politics is that we live under a persistent, obdurate, one might almost say tyrannical, two-party system. We have the Republicans and we have the Democrats, and we have almost no one else, no other strictly political aggregate that amounts to a corporal's guard in the struggle for power.” TwoFactsMightPoliticalPartyStruggleAmountRepublicanDemocratPatternsPersistentAmerican PoliticsTwo Party System Book:Parties and Politics in America Source: Parties and Politics in America
“If you believe that a nation is really better off which achieves for a comparative few, those who are capable of attaining it, high culture, ease, opportunity, and that these few from their enlightenment should give what they consider best to those less favored, then you naturally belong to the Republican Party. But if you believe that people must struggle slowly to the light for themselves, then it seems to me that you are a Democrat.” PeopleIfsGivingShouldBelieveLightSeemsPoliticalCultureOpportunityNationsPartyStruggleAchieveRepublicanCapableEnlightenmentDemocratEaseRepublican PartyPolitical PartiesBetter OffIf You Believe Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.” YearsEnoughShowsLastsPoliticalVoiceCommunityPartyStruggleRightsRepublicanPaperEmbraceCivil RightsAfrican AmericanCentsSixtyLegislationRepublican PartySeventiesNinety Author:Michael Steele
“There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.” TogetherFightingPartyStruggleRepublicanClaimsTeaWorking TogetherRepublican PartyTea PartyBannerRift Author:Michael Steele
“As we watch Republican candidates like Scott Walker and Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal and George Pataki, and even Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, guys who are either out or who are really struggling to stay in, it might seem like the Republican Party is no longer a very strong party. There may be people who use the Republican label, but the party itself might feel like it`s in a bit of disarray.” PeopleFeelsMayUseSeemsMightGuyStrongBitsPartyWatchesStruggleRepublicanLabelsCandidatesVery StrongRepublican PartyWalkersChristieDisarray Author:Melissa Harris-Perry
“Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on the Republican side. On the Democratic side, he sees Hillary Clinton struggling a bit... And Mayor Bloomberg sees a big lane in the middle for a moderate former Republican who believes in gun control and climate change.” BelieveBigsBitsSidesStruggleMiddleTrumpRepublicanGunDemocraticClintonClimateClimate ChangeFormerGun ControlModeratesLanesMayorsCruz Author:Don Gonyea