“I will look for a candidate, Republican or Democrat, who seems to be on the way or understands how to resolve the economic difficulties we're having, how to do something about unemployment, how to make sure that we free up our businesses and we don't over-regulate ourselves.” WayLooksSeemsEconomicRepublicanDifficultyDemocratCandidatesResolveUnemployment Author:Colin Powell
“The Republican Party has pretty much abandoned any pretense of being a traditional political party. It's in lockstep obedience to the very rich, the super rich and the corporate sector. They can't get votes that way so they have to mobilize a different constituency. It's always been there, but it's rarely been mobilized politically. They call it the religious right, but basically it's the extreme religious population.” WayDifferentPoliticalReligiousPartyRichRepublicanVotePopulationExtremesTraditionalObedienceCorporateAbandonedRepublican PartyPolitical PartiesPretense Author:Noam Chomsky
“Frankly, we are republicans and they're democrats but before all of that, we're Americans. And I believe we need to unify in so many ways to rebuild our country, to strengthen our country, to rebuild our defense, and for America to secure it's place it world; for us, for our children, and for the next generation.” WorldWayNeedsBelieveChildrenCountryAmericaNextI BelieveGenerationsRepublicanOur ChildrenDemocratDefenseOur CountrySecureNext Generation Author:John Kasich
“It is not like the white Republican, the conservative, who clears it up for you and says, "I don't like you", to your face and then you know immediately he is an antagonist. Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.” KnowsWayFacesWhiteLike YouRepublicanRacismConservativeYour FaceAntagonistI Don't Like You Author:Bocafloja
“The only reason the president insists on raising [tax] rates is because he knows it will destroy Republican unity, it will cause a complete fracture of the Republican majority in the house, it will hand him a Congress that he can then manipulate for the next two years at least because the Republicans will be neutered. ... This is entirely a political action, a way to get a surrender from the Republicans.” KnowsWayYearsTwoReasonHandsActionPoliticalNextHouseCausesPresidentRepublicanTaxesMajorityUnityRateCongressSurrenderTwo YearsManipulatePolitical ActionFractureRaising Taxes Author:Charles Krauthammer
“What Republicans have actually put on the table is almost nothing. All of the rest is just big talk. So how is the president supposed to negotiate with people who say, 'Here's my demands. By the way, I can't give you any specifics. Just make me happy'?” PeopleWayGivingI CanBigsPresidentRepublicanDemandTablesMake Me HappySpecifics Author:Paul Krugman
“We have got to get beyond this political bologna. I'm not allowed to say anything positive about Hillary Clinton because then I'm not a loyal Republican, and she's not allowed to say anything positive about me because then she's not a loyal Democrat. What a stupid way to run a country.” WayCountryRunningPoliticalStupidRepublicanClintonDemocratLoyalSay AnythingBologna Author:Newt Gingrich
“Conservatives won't want to hear this, but the Republican who maneuvered his way into the most impressive victory of the election was California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Okay, he's sui generis. But he won a landslide victory after moving to the center, while holding onto conservatives by not hiking taxes.” WayWantMovingVictoryRepublicanTaxesOkayElectionCaliforniaHikingImpressiveHolding OnSchwarzeneggerLandslides Author:Fred Barnes
“The job of conservatives is to keep the Republican Party driving on the right-hand side of the road. There are many ways we do this. We argue, we publish, we lobby, we campaign for conservative candidates. Another thing we do is, when the GOP goes off the rails on really key issues - size of government, the National Question, Wilsonian adventures - we stay home on election day.” WayHomeHandsGovernmentJobsSidesPartyIssuesAdventureKeysRepublicanElectionSizeConservativeArguingCampaignsDrivingCandidatesRepublican PartyPublishRailElection DayGopSize Of GovernmentDriving On Author:John Derbyshire
“A critical component of White House Scandal Defense 101 is rallying the partisan base. This keeps approval ratings in territory where the wheels don't start falling off. The way to achieve this goal is you go negative and you don't let up. If you're always attacking your accusers, the debate becomes one of Democrat vs. Republican, rather than right vs. wrong. Anyone who questions the legality of the decision to wiretap thousands of Americans unlawfully is attacked, as either an enabler of terrorists or a bitter partisan trying to distract a president at war.” IfsWayTryingWarFallHouseGoalPresidentWhiteDecisionAchieveRepublicanNegativeDemocratCriticalDefenseDebateTerroristBitterWheelsWhite HouseTerritoryApprovalComponentsScandalAttackingRatingPartisansFalling OffLegalityAccusersRallyingApproval RatingEnablers Author:Bob Barr
“I have prided myself with striving for objectivity, something many literary-minded critics dismiss as impossible. But in Washington, reporters are practically the only people who actually spend time talking to Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals, and I find the longer I report in Washington, the mushier and less conclusive my own views are. I like it that way.” PeopleWayMy OwnViewsTalkingImpossibleRepublicanDemocratCriticsStriveReportsReportersEnd TimesSpend TimeObjectivity Author:Jon Weisman
“Sarah Palin is backing in be to Republican presidential politics in a big way with a big high profile endorsement decision.That is, I think, probably going to cause a lot of upset in one particular part of the Republican establishment.” ThinkingWayBigsCausesDecisionParticularRepublicanPresidentialUpsetEstablishmentProfilePalinEndorsementsHigh Profile Author:Rachel Maddow
“What I`m starting to think of as the mythical beast of the Republican establishment, which is the sort of inchoate idea that we keep talking about what they`re going to do and it never seems to have much impact or be manifest in very visible ways, obviously, it is one thing for Donald Trump to have taken a shot like he did early in his campaign at John McCain, calling him not a war hero.” ThinkingWayIdeasWarSeemsTalkingTakenOne ThingTrumpHeroCallingRepublicanShotsImpactStartingCampaignsBeastVisibleManifestEstablishmentMccainKeep TalkingWar HeroMythical Beasts Author:Rachel Maddow
“I think the Republican budget priorities are messed up. I salute for the way they're attacking some of the entitlement programs, but they are taking huge cuts, by pretending they're just block-granting it to the states, out of Medicaid, from the least fortunate.” ThinkingWayStatesCuttingHugeRepublicanProgramPrioritiesBlockBudgetsFortunatePretendingAttackingEntitlementMessed UpSaluteMedicaidEntitlement Programs Author:David Brooks
“As long as Republicans won't - won't raise taxes and as long as Democrats won't in any way make entitlements based on need, rather than just across the board, I really think that we're doomed to this deadlock.” ThinkingWayNeedsLongRepublicanTaxesRaisesDemocratBoardsDoomedEntitlement Author:Mark Shields
“I think she [Eleanor Roosevelt] was a shrewd politician, and very good in public relations, although she had the usual media help in this. As a Republican and a conservative, I can say ruefully that the Democrats and the liberals tend to get it; that when she said something, it was put in a nice way and highlighted properly by the appropriate media, so that it sounded good.” ThinkingWaySaidI CanHelpingNiceMediaPoliticianRepublicanRelationDemocratVery GoodConservativeAppropriateUsualPublic RelationsEleanor Author:William A. Rusher
“When you have three out of the four largest banks in America today, bigger than they were - significantly bigger than when we bailed them out because they were too big to fail, I think if Teddy Roosevelt were alive today, a good Republican by the way, what he would say is: Break them up; they are too powerful economically; they are too powerful politically.” IfsThinkingWayBigsTodayAmericaThreePowerfulBreakFourAliveFailingRepublicanBiggerLive For TodayTeddyAmerica Today Author:Hillary Clinton
“Republicans win when people are demoralized and you have a small voter turnout, which by the way is why they love voter suppression. I believe that our campaign up to now has shown that we can create an enormous amount of enthusiasm from working people, from young people, who will get involved in the political process and which will drive us to a very large voter turnout.” PeopleWayBelieveYoungPoliticalWinningI BelieveProcessAmountInvolvedRepublicanCampaignsEnormousEnthusiasmVotersGet InvolvedSuppressionDemoralizedVoter SuppressionVoter Turnout Author:Bernie Sanders
“The Republican Party`s reacting now to the news of [Donald] Trump`s dominance in different ways. For some, they are pushing resistance.” WayDifferentPartyTrumpRepublicanNewsResistanceDifferent WaysPushingRepublican PartyDominanceReacting Author:Chris Matthews
“We can't win - if we nominate someone - if we nominate someone that half of the Republican Party hates, we're going to be fighting against each other all the way to November [of 2016]. We will never win that way.” IfsWayHateFightingWinningPartyHalfRepublicanRepublican PartyNovemberCan't Win Author:Marco Rubio
“If Donald Trump is our nominee, it could be the end of the Republican Party. It will split us and splinter us in a way that we may never be able to recover. And the Democrats will be joyful about it. It's not going to happen.” IfsWayMayEndsHappensAblePartyTrumpRepublicanDemocratJoyfulSplitsRepublican PartySplinters Author:Marco Rubio
“I would prefer that in the Republican party, we not engage in trying to destroy each other, because all that does is hand the election over to the Democrats. I don't know why there is this penchant for snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, they'll find some way to destroy themselves. And it is just maddening to see it happening.” KnowsWayTryingDoeHandsPartyVictoryRepublicanHappeningsElectionDemocratDefeatRepublican Party Author:Benjamin Carson
“Land Grant College Act is the jewel of Republican reform. It had not occurred to any other country to educate their farmers and workers. When the British studied the reasons for American success in 1851, the consensus was that Americans workers were well educated. So they didn't oppose progress the way British workers did.” WayWellsCountryReasonProgressLandCollegeRepublicanWorkersBritishEducatedReformGrantsFarmersEducateOther CountriesJewelsConsensusWell EducatedAmerican Success Author:Charles R. Morris
“I see this in the way that sermons are preached. How would you give a Black Nationalist speech or campaign for the Republicans when you're an integrated congregation? It doesn't happen.” WayGivingHappensBlackRepublicanSpeechCampaignsSermonsIntegratedCongregation Author:Michael Emerson
“Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the Civil Rights movement. Civil Rights legislation was passed by a Republican Congress.” WayRightsMovementRepublicanDemocratCongressCivil RightsAfrican AmericanLegislationCivil Rights MovementEmancipationProclamationEmancipation Proclamation Author:Rafael Cruz
“We've just gone through this period of years where the players in the game were at least written about as being a Democratic administration, establishment Republicans, and then the rabble-rousing radicals of the tea party. And it was like a three-way negotiation between them. But we are going to enter an era where there's a physical, powerful, vibrant progressive movement that will, I think, be able to exercise power in the same way as the right-wing and the right does.” ThinkingWayYearsDoeAbleThreeGamesPowerfulPartyGonePlayerWrittenMovementPeriodsExerciseRepublicanWingsDemocraticRadicalAdministrationTeaErasProgressiveEstablishmentNegotiationRight WingTea PartyThree WaysProgressive Movement Author:Ben Wikler
“[Donald] Trump won fair and square! He got 13.3 million votes. He won all over the country. He won when the race was crowded and when it was a one on one against Ted Cruz. There's just no reasonable way to keep Trump from the nomination while insisting that the will of the Republican voter is being respected.” WayCountryRaceMillionsTrumpRepublicanFairsVoteReasonableVotersSquaresCrowdedNominationsCruzInsistingOne On One Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza
“The Republican Party, in many ways, grew up as a reaction to that [ segregation], and a lot of people have misunderstood that.” PeopleWayPartyGrewRepublicanGrew UpReactionsRepublican PartyMisunderstoodSegregation Author:Jeff Sessions
“We need to tap into new issues. There's a way to resurrect the sound policies of our party, but also to look toward new issues - kitchen-table issues like the rising cost of education. I think that's a winning issue for Republicans.” ThinkingWayNeedsLooksWinningSoundPartyIssuesPolicyRepublicanCostTablesKitchenRisingKitchen TableCost Of Education Author:Andrea Tantaros
“The loyalty to Hillary Clinton is party loyalty, and by the way, she has a lot of support simply based on the fact that we are despised, folks, conservatives, Republicans are literally hated, irrationally and inexplicably.” WayFactsPartySupportRepublicanClintonFolksLoyaltyHatedDespised Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It is remarkable to me that both parties are so out of touch with the American people, both Democrats, Republicans and Independents, we all feel the same way.” PeopleWayFeelsPartyRepublicanDemocratRemarkable Author:Glenn Beck
“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
“The cavalier casual way that Donald Trump talks about nuclear weapons is not only frightening but it goes counter to more than 70 years of bipartisan, presidential leadership of Republicans and Democrats who believed that we have to prevent other countries from getting nuclear weapons and we have to do what we can to decrease the number of nuclear weapons in the world.” WorldWayYearsCountryNumbersTrumpRepublicanWeaponsDemocratNuclearPresidentialNuclear WeaponsFrighteningOther CountriesCasualDecreaseBipartisanPresidential Leadership Author:Hillary Clinton
“How does conservatism find its way into the body politic? I think most people actually live their lives that way, but they have been poisoned into not voting that way because the brand - conservatism brand, Republican brand - has been summarily destroyed over the years.” PeopleThinkingWayYearsDoeHas BeensBodyRepublicanDestroyedBrandsVotingConservatismNot Voting Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There was a whole set of issues that the other Republican candidates couldn`t go after Trump that hard on. They had this difficult position where they were trying to knock Trump down while appealing to the voters who liked a lot of the outrageous things about Donald Trump.[Hillary] Clinton is giong to have no such restrictions. She`s going to attack him on a wide variety of fronts and I don`t think Trump is going to deal very well with being attacked in that way.” ThinkingWayTryingWellsHardWholeDifficultDealsIssuesFrontsPositionTrumpRepublicanClintonWideVarietyCandidatesVotersRestrictionOutrageous Author:Josh Barro
“[President] needs to engage them in a very personal way. And he needs to tell them that this is something that America, the United States of America, needs. Not Republican. It's not Democrat. It's America.” WayNeedsStatesAmericaPresidentUnitedUnited StatesRepublicanDemocratUnited States Of America Author:John Kasich
“If the [Republican] party wants to have an ideological debate, it's never going to win anything in a major way.” IfsWayWantWinningPartyRepublicanMajorsDebateRepublican PartyIdeological Author:John Kasich
“There are very few situations where Republicans cheat. They don't control the inner cities the way Democrats do. Maybe if Republicans controlled the inner cities they would cheat as much as Democrats.” IfsWayCitiesSituationRepublicanDemocratControlledCheatInner City Author:Rudy Giuliani
“We can't stand any more! We don't want any more of what we've had to put up with for eight years and many years prior. The country we know and love is being torn apart and rebuilt in ways that we don't want, and the Republican Party doesn't even seem to care about that.” KnowsWayWantYearsCountrySeemsCareLove IsPartyRepublicanAnd LoveEightRepublican PartyTornTorn Apart Author:Rush Limbaugh
“As a Republican, I have listened to Democrats talk about the only two times we won the White House in like 200 years that we stole both elections. I had to sit through Fahrenheit 9/11 and a lady was sobbing violently behind me about the election being stolen by George Bush and I patted her half way through and said, 'it's alright, it's alright. It's all a lie anyway.' Democrats have been whining for 16 years, they're still writing articles about how Bush stole the election in 2004 and 2000.” WayWritingYearsHas BeensSaidStillsTwoLyingHouseWhiteBehindsHalfRepublicanElectionDemocratWhite HouseArticlesStolenAlrightWhiningSobbingHalf Way Author:Joe Scarborough
“The Cook Political Report now predicting senate democrats are poised to pick up five to seven seats, which would give them the majority. Pointing out the history shows that races in the Toss Up column never split down the middle, one party tends to win the lion`s share of them. With two weeks to Election Day, there`s not enough time for republicans to recover toss-up seats in states where Hillary Clinton is currently leading, considering this, early voting is under way, and [Donald]Trump won`t be any help especially since his campaign doesn`t really have a ground game to speak of.” WayGivingTwoStatesEnoughHelpingShowsPoliticalGamesWinningSpeakPartyRaceFiveWeekShareMiddleTrumpRepublicanPicksElectionMajorityClintonDemocratSevenCampaignsCooksSeatsReportsVotingLionsSenateSplitsConsideringPointingTwo WeeksColumnsEnough TimeTossPredictingElection DayNot Enough Time Author:Chris Hayes
“What is happening to Donald Trump in terms of the way he's being reported on and cast with the media is the way every Republican presidential candidate has been treated in my life.” WayHas BeensTermMediaTrumpRepublicanHappeningsCastsTreatedPresidentialCandidatesPresidential Candidate Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In the words of Alice Walker, the biggest way people give up power is by not knowing we have it to start with. We have it: just to look at the power of fighting student debt or 25 million Latinos who learned that the Republicans are the party that hate and fear but Democrats are the party of people deportation and detention.” PeopleWayGivingLooksHateFightingPartyMillionsKnowingStudentsRepublicanGiving UpDemocratDebtNot KnowingLatinoWalkersDetentionDeportationHate And Fear Author:Jill Stein
“I think if we had another set of policies for - not the crisis years, but after that, that we might be growing faster. But we didn't. And some of that was Republicans' [fault], by the way.” IfsThinkingWayYearsMightGrowingPolicyRepublicanCrisisFaultsFaster Author:Jamie Dimon
“Republican Congressmen and senators will be in a very interesting place, where they have to support the president-elect - president - what will be President [Donald] Trump when they - when they agree with him, try to guide him in certain ways, I think oppose him on some things.” ThinkingWayTryingCertainPresidentInterestingSupportTrumpRepublicanAgreeGuidesSenatorsVery InterestingCongressmanInteresting Places Author:William Kristol
“I would rather lose than win the way you guys [Republicans] did.” WayGuyWinningLosesRepublican Author:Jennifer Palmieri
“Donald Trump has said he wants to keep Medicare and Social Security the way they are. Congressman Price along with most Republicans are on record supporting voucherizing Medicare. So there are going to be some conflicts to resolve there.” WayWantSaidSocialRecordsSecurityTrumpRepublicanConflictResolveSocial SecurityMedicareCongressman Author:Mara Liasson
“In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition.” WayUsedTrumpRepublicanOppositionTrendsContinuingBehaviourNormSmashing Author:Jonathan Chait
“Michelle Obama kind of has two identities. In private, she is actually often much more vehement than her husband about Republican opposition. It was very hard to get sources to put it on the record, but they would describe the way she talked about Republicans and opposition in private. And, you know, her remarks were scorching. The level of heat that she can give off in these conversations is often much greater than what Barack Obama does.” KnowsWayGivingKindDoeTwoHardLevelsRecordsGreaterIdentitySourceRepublicanHusbandConversationBarackHeatOppositionRemarksVehementScorching Author:Jodi Kantor
“The Office of Government Ethics has taken the right position on this, one consistent with many Republicans and Democrats. And by the way, OGE and Walt Shaub in particular, were very, very helpful in moving the [George W. Bush] nominees through. This is not a partisan organization at all.” WayGovernmentMovingTakenPositionParticularRepublicanOfficeEthicsOrganizationDemocratConsistentHelpfulPartisansWalt Author:Reince Priebus