“Most of Trump's support is not the conservative base. It's all over the spectrum. He's got support from women, Hispanics, blue-collar Democrats, the old Reagan Democrats. The demographic support that Trump has is what the Republican Party claims it wants. Meanwhile, the Republican Party is running around saying they want to win the nomination without the conservative base, without the pro-lifers, without the social issues crowd. Well, that's Trump.” WantWellsRunningWinningSocialPartySupportIssuesTrumpRepublicanClaimsBlueDemocratConservativeCrowdsWant MeRepublican PartySocial IssuesSpectrumCollarsDemographicsNominationsBlue Collar Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's just, "Hey,[Barack] Obama's the hero, and he wants Obamacare," and so the coverage is totally devoted to whether or not Obama's gonna get it. Now, in that scenario, who are the villains?Well, your good old, reliable Republicans are the villains, and they are always portrayed as the people trying to deny our beloved hero what he wants.” PeopleWantTryingWellsHeroRepublicanDenyHeyBarackBelovedVillainDevotedScenariosObamacareCoverage Author:Rush Limbaugh
“[Donald] Trump wanted the nomination, and all these other Republicans and their supporters didn't want Trump to have the nomination. So who became the villains? What Trump wanted became the story. "Will he get it? Will Trump get to 1,237?" Did not Ted Cruz become a villain in the middle of this by virtue of trying to stop the hero by getting delegates in all of the state conventions?” WantTryingStatesStoriesWantedVirtueMiddleTrumpHeroRepublicanVillainConventionsSupporterNominationsCruzDelegates Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The media traditionally is simply an arm of the Democrat Party that is used in service of advancing the Democrat Party agenda, and the Republicans haven't come up with a way of having a more engaging, entertaining story because the Republican story is never anything other than, "We don't want Democrat X to have what he wants."” WayWantStoriesUsedPartyMediaHavensArmsRepublicanDemocratCome UpAgendasEntertainingEngagingAdvancing Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I want the coal miners, who've been American heroes, who kept the lights put on for black people and white people for a hundred years, and who now are too sick to work, I want them to be able to go see a doctor. I don't care who they vote for. I don't care if they vote for a Tea Party Republican, I'm fighting for you because I voted for you to live in a country where we don't have disposable people.” PeopleIfsWantYearsCountryLightCareAbleFightingBlackWhitePartyHeroRepublicanHundredDoctorsVoteSickDon't CareTeaI Don't CareBlack PeopleCoalTea PartyMinersDisposableCoal MinersAmerican Hero Author:Van Jones
“The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?” IfsWantChristianFallLiteratureConsciousnessIntegrityRepublicanChecksFalling ApartNo Integrity Author:Ken Kesey
“Normally what happens in a new presidency is the president has a big agenda, and Congress is full of people with human weaknesses. And so the president indulges the human weaknesses of members of Congress in order to pass his agenda. This time it's the other way around. Donald Trump does not have much of an agenda. Congress burns with this intense Republican agenda and so does Congress that has to put up with the human weaknesses of the president in order to get a signature on the things it desperately wants to pass.” PeopleWayWantHumansDoeBigsHappensOrderPresidentTrumpRepublicanMembersWeaknessCongressIntenseAgendasPresidencyIndulgeSignatures Author:David Frum
“I would love to see more investment to help our veterans. Donald Trump is talking about investing in the military - I imagine he wants to invest on the war side, but what we really need is to take care of our veterans, and invest in the VA hospitals, provide better mental health treatment, and help them find housing. That is a stain on America for all of us - Republican and Democrat.” WantNeedsWarHelpingCareAmericaSidesTalkingImagineMilitaryTrumpRepublicanMental HealthDemocratInvestmentInvestingTake CareTreatmentHospitalsVeteranHousingStainsOur Veterans Author:Nina Turner
“The American people are beginning to see the Republicans' willingness to trample over 200 years of history, to step on the minority, to push everybody out of the way because they want 100 percent. It's rubbing the American people the wrong way. One-party rule is not good.” PeopleWayWantYearsPartyStepsRepublicanPercentMinoritiesWillingnessWrong Way Author:Barbara Boxer
“Every time a Republican wins the White House, whenever Republicans win control of Congress, the Drive-Bys always claim that the message is voters want a balanced and divided government.” WantGovernmentHouseWinningWhiteRepublicanMessagesClaimsCongressWhite HouseVotersDividedBalancedDivided Government Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There are two reasons [ business people are not publicly anti-Donald Trump ], one is well-intentioned, which is the classic kind of American notion. We want to be inclusive, we want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether they are Democrat, Republican, Green or Libertarian, to feel comfortable with how we're doing business. And so that tends to be apolitical. People say, "No, no, I just simply shouldn't get involved in politics."” PeopleWantFeelsWellsKindTwoReasonTrumpInvolvedRepublicanComfortableGreenDemocratNotionCustomersLibertarianClassicEmployeeGet InvolvedShareholdersApolitical Author:Reid Hoffman
“On behalf of every Republican and every Democrat in Congress, on behalf of the whole House, I want our friends in the Jewish community to know that we stand with them.” KnowsWantWholeHouseCommunityRepublicanDemocratCongressBehalfJewish Community Author:Paul Ryan
“What Republicans want to do is to put doctors and patients and patients' families back in charge of people's health care rather than having pencil pushers of the government or in some insurance office doing that job.” PeopleWantGovernmentCareJobsRepublicanOfficeDoctorsPatientHealth CarePencilsDoctors And Patients Author:Jim Sensenbrenner
“I was raised a right-wing Republican and was about eighteen when I had to admit to myself that in regards to the great domestic crucible of the day, civil rights and racial justice, conservatives were on the wrong side historically and morally, and that it took too much intellectual and psychological jujitsu to pretend otherwise. I didn't want to pretend anymore; I wanted to be on the right side.” WantWantedSidesJusticeToo MuchRightsRepublicanIntellectualRegardWingsRaisedPsychologicalCivil RightsRight WingEighteenRacial JusticeCrucible Author:Steve Erickson
“As a young lawyer, I learned to try to find common ground with people, to look for a human connection. When I got to the Senate, despite the fact that there were a lot of people who didn't want me to get there - and were sure they'd never even talk to me, let alone work with me - I really tried to do the job I was sent there to do by the people of New York, which was to get things done for my constituents. I worked with Republicans, and we found a lot of common ground. It isn't easy, but it's part of what we have to do in politics today.” PeopleWantTryingHumansLooksDoneFactsTodayJobsYoungFoundEasyCommonNew YorkRepublicanConnectionsLawyerDespiteSenateWant MeThings DoneTalk To MeConstituentsCommon GroundHuman ConnectionPolitics Today Author:Hillary Clinton
“The Republicans have picked that as the one thing that they want to hang on to to try to gain some political stand, so they have to destroy what they call Obamacare. This is now not all the Republicans, it's a wing of the Republican Party, which is called conservative but in fact is just deeply reactionary.” WantTryingFactsPoliticalPartyOne ThingRepublicanGainsWingsConservativeRepublican PartyObamacareReactionaries Author:Noam Chomsky
“There's a split in the US about how this [split] will be resolved. The main point to look at is the split within the Republican Party. The Republican establishment, and Wall Street, and the bankers, and the corporate executives and so on, they don't want this. They don't want it at all. It's the part of the base that is mobilized that wants it.” WantLooksPartyStreetsWallRepublicanCorporateExecutivesEstablishmentSplitsRepublican PartyBankers Author:Noam Chomsky
“The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor, and they wanted him in. But the base didn't want him.” WantKindWantedInterestingStreetsWallRepublicanLawyerPrimariesCandidatesInvestorsEstablishmentRomneyWant Him Author:Noam Chomsky
“My mother-in-law says if you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat. That if you are a part of the group that is doing well in this system, you owe it to yourself and to others to look out for them and make sure you are always building a ladder for others to join you.” IfsWantWellsLooksLawMotherGroupsBuildingRepublicanVoteDemocratLaddersIn-lawsMother In Law Author:Thomas Friedman
“[Tom Cotton] is known for his efforts to scale back legal immigration. Legal. He wants to stop legal immigrants from coming to this country. That`s very popular in Republican politics .” WantCountryEffortKnownRepublicanScalesImmigrationImmigrantsTomsCottonVery PopularLegal Immigration Author:Rachel Maddow
“There's this notion that Republicans are the party of Jesus and the Democrats are the Godless party. Let's be clear for a minute. One party wants to give health insurance to the poor and the weak and the dispossessed, and one party wants to take away that health insurance and give tax breaks to rich people. You tell me: which side would Jesus fall on that argument?” PeopleWantGivingFallJesusSidesPoorPartyBreakRichClearMinutesRepublicanTaxesArgumentWeakDemocratNotionRich PeopleTax Breaks Author:Reza Aslan