“When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.” WantJobsGrowthEconomicRepublicanTaxesLowsTradeDemocratSpendingWhat You WantRegulationRecipesEconomic GrowthFree TradeDownturnEconomic DownturnSpending Less Author:Nancy Pfotenhauer
“Senate Democrats blocked President Obama's trade bill yesterday because they're worried it could hurt jobs. It's not an issue for Republicans, since they've all found work as presidential candidates.” JobsFoundPresidentHurtIssuesRepublicanTradeBillsDemocratYesterdayWorriedPresidentialCandidatesPresident ObamaSenateBlockedPresidential Candidate Author:Jimmy Fallon
“Her nomination for vice president in 2008 represents the most desperate inclinations of the Republican Party. In two hundred years, I suspect historians will use Palin as an example of how insane America became in the decade following the destruction of the World Trade Center, and her origin story will seem as extraterrestrial and eccentric as Abe Lincoln jumping out of a window to undermine a voting quorum in 1840.” WorldYearsTwoStoriesUseSeemsAmericaPresidentPartyExampleRepublicanHundredWindowDestructionTradeVicesFollowingDecadesInsaneDesperateVotingSuspectsHistorianRepublican PartyJumpingInclinationEccentricVice PresidentPalinNominationsWorld TradeWorld Trade CenterExtraterrestrialAbe Book:I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined) Source: I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)
“We've got people in the Republican Party that just believe that if you just cut taxes for corporations, and that you have more trade, and we just bring in more people from abroad, that this is going to help the average guy. Well, it's not. I mean, this is an honest dispute. We're going to have a dispute about it. The American people agree with [Donald] Trump and I agree with Trump on those things.” PeopleIfsBelieveWellsMeanHelpingGuyPartyCuttingHonestTrumpRepublicanTaxesAgreeTradeAverageCorporationsRepublican PartyDisputesJust Believe Author:Jeff Sessions
“My advice is to listen and accept the will of the American people, the Republican voters. The Republican Party is the Republican voters, and Republican voters oppose these trade agreements more than Democrat voters do.” PeoplePartyAcceptingAdviceRepublicanTradeDemocratAgreementVotersRepublican PartyTrade Agreements Author:Jeff Sessions
“[Donald] Trump is the only Republican candidate in the last seven cycles to understand all three legs of the foreign policy stool - the three crucial elements of our foreign policy, what they need to be - and they are trade, war, and immigration.” NeedsWarLastsThreePolicyTrumpRepublicanElementsTradeSevenLegsImmigrationCandidatesCyclesCrucialForeign PolicyStoolsThree Legs Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Republicans want to take us forward to the dark ages again ... when women were property that you could easily control, even trade if you wanted to. It's appalling we are having this debate in the 21st century.” IfsWantAgeWantedDarkCenturyRepublicanTradePropertyDebate21st CenturyDark Ages Author:Frank Lautenberg
“The Republican Party cannot be anti-trade, anti-immigrant, not out there practicing the politics of people, you know, the issues surrounding drug addiction and mental illness and the cost of prescription drugs and healthcare and student debt and all of these things are very personal to people now.” PeopleKnowsPartyIssuesStudentsRepublicanCostDrugTradeAddictionIllnessDebtMental IllnessImmigrantsHealthcareRepublican PartyPrescriptionsDrug AddictionDrug AddictPrescription Drugs Author:John Kasich
“[Trade] was clearly a factor.That was a complete reversal of where things are normally at. Usually Republicans are all for free trade.” RepublicanTradeFactorsFree TradeReversal Author:Collin Peterson
“I do think, over the last years, a lot of Republicans have decided it's not working, what the party believed in, free trade, global capitalism, open borders.” ThinkingYearsLastsPartyRepublicanCapitalismDecidedTradeBordersLast YearFree Trade Author:Mark Shields
“For sure, certain policies and positions that the party has had for 30 years are going to have to be rethought because [Donald] Trump does have a bit of a mandate when it comes to sort of thinking through trade and rebalancing our trade and how Republicans are going to sort of have a posture towards trade.” ThinkingYearsDoeCertainBitsPartyPolicyPositionTrumpRepublicanTradePostureMandates Author:Margaret Hoover