“Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.” LongHas BeensImportantStatesWantedCoursesSocialUnitedUnited StatesSecurityRepublicanProgramValuableSocial SecuritySocial Programs Author:Bernie Sanders
“Ann Richards on How to Be a Good Republican: 1. You have to believe that the nation's current 8-year prosperity was due to the work of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, but yesterday's gasoline prices are all Clinton's fault. 2. You have to believe that those privileged from birth achieve success all on their own. 3. You have to be against all government programs, but expect Social Security checks on time.” YearsBelieveGovernmentNationsSocialAchieveSecurityBirthRepublicanProgramFaultsClintonCurrentsProsperityDuesYesterdayChecksPrivilegedSocial SecurityGasolineGovernment ProgramsGasoline Prices Author:Ann Richards
“When the concept of Social Security came before the House, every Republican but one voted against it. Had it not been for the Democrats, Social Security would never have passed, and our older people would not have this great support that our people provide. It has been my experience that Democrats generally vote to protect the people, while Republicans seem to try to protect the interests of big business.” PeopleTryingHas BeensBigsSeemsPoliticalHousePoliticsSocialInterestSupportSecurityRepublicanProtectConceptsVoteDemocratSocial SecurityBig BusinessOlder People Author:Sam Rayburn
“Forts, arsenals, garrisons, armies, navies, are means of security and defence, which were invented in half-civilized times and in feudal or despotic countries; but schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications, and if they are dismantled and dilapidated, ignorance and vice will pour in their legions through every breach.” IfsMeanCountryLinesHalfSecurityIgnoranceRepublicanArmyVicesCivilizedNavyDefenceArsenalLegionBreachFortsArmy NavyFortification Book:Common School Journal Source: Common School Journal
“We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.” SocialPresidentStreetsSecurityWallPromiseRepublicanClintonBlockTradingSocial SecurityJohnsonCarterTruman Author:John F. Kerry
“The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the protection it affords against foreign power, the virtue it inculcates, the just emulation of the distinction it confers on nations foremost in it; in short, its identification with power, morals, order and happiness (which merits to it premiums of encouragement rather than repressive taxes), are considerations [that should] always [be] present and [bear] with their just weight.” PeopleGivingShouldMindValuesOrderNationsLibertyMoralVirtueSecurityBearsCitizensRepublicanTaxesWeightEncouragementProtectionMeritDistinctionConsiderationEnlighteningIdentificationEmulation Book:Public and private papers Source: Public and private papers
“Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious council. It's the only place in the world where the last six elections have been won by the more progressive candidate, two for president, two for the mayors, two for the parliament. So most people there are sympathetic to the world we Americans want to build, whether we're Republicans or Democrats. On the other hand, almost everybody there wants them to have nuclear power. They see it as a status symbol, and a sense of their own security.” PeopleWorldWantHas BeensTwoHandsLastsPresidentReligiousSecurityRepublicanSixThirdsElectionWestDemocratNuclearSymbolsCandidatesProgressiveParliamentCouncilGoverningFanaticismSympatheticMayorsPlaces In The WorldIranianNuclear PowerStatus Symbol Author:William J. Clinton
“The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.” MenShouldImportantAmericaPoliticsSecurityHe ManRepublicanProtectMen And WomenDemocratCongressHomelandHomeland SecurityImportant Work Author:Barack Obama
“It would be naïve to suggest the Iranian regime will not continue to use its nuclear program, and any economic relief, to further destabilize the region, in the weeks ahead, Republicans and Democrats in Congress will continue to press the Obama administration on the details of these parameters and the tough questions that remain unanswered. We will stand strong on behalf of the American people and everyone in the Middle East who values freedom, security, and peace.” PeopleUseWould BeValuesStrongPeaceFreedomWeekEconomicMiddleSecurityRepublicanToughProgramPressesDemocratCongressDetailsEastNuclearAdministrationReliefRegionsRegimesMiddle EastBehalfIranianParametersUnansweredStand StrongTough Questions Author:John Boehner
“With all our differences, whenever we are confronted with a threat to our security we are not then Republicans or Democrats but Americans; we are not then the fifty states but the United States.” StatesDifferencesUnitedUnited StatesSecurityRepublicanThreatDemocratFifty Author:Richard M. Nixon
“We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.” FirstsCountryGrowingSecurityRepublicanConcernConfusionOur CountryStability Author:Margaret Chase Smith
“Why don't Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama's amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It's hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren't trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they're intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty. If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can't stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.” IfsTryingYearsLooksKindDoeHardReasonFactsLyingFightingHouseSocialSecurityMediaRepublicanArgumentVoteMajorityDemocratCongressCardsWelfareImmigrantsNo ReasonIllegalThrowingSocial SecurityAttackingPaymentIllegal ImmigrantsAmnestyConcluding Author:Ann Coulter
“I think we [Americans] are going to look back and realize that the civil liberties that we've given up in the name of security, the authority that we've given Democratic and Republican presidents, all have contributed to a fraying of the fabric of our democratic republic.” ThinkingLooksNamesGivenPresidentRealizingLibertySecurityRepublicanAuthorityDemocraticRepublicFabricGiven UpCivil LibertiesDemocratic Republic Author:Jeremy Scahill
“You can't blame the administration and the Republicans for taking us back to deficits, for spending the Social Security surplus and assaulting the environment. That's what they promised to do in the last election.” LastsSocialEnvironmentSecurityRepublicanElectionBlameSpendingAdministrationSocial SecurityDeficitSurplus Author:William J. Clinton
“Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, social security - hey, how about we privatize privacy! Because if the government forbids gay men from tying the knot, what is their alternative? They can`t all marry Liza Minnelli.” IfsMenShouldGovernmentSchoolSocialSecurityRepublicanGayPrisonHeyAlternativesPrivacySocial SecurityKnotsGay Men Book:New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer Source: New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
“Republicans drove us into debt with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Now they want to pay for that debt with cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. This is not only immoral it is bad economics. Why do Republicans always have money for war but not for those in need?” WantNeedsTwoWarSocialPayCuttingSecurityRepublicanTaxesEconomicsDebtImmoralSocial SecurityMedicareTax CutsThose In NeedMedicaidMedicare And Medicaid Author:Bernie Sanders
“I am 100 percent confident. This is a security review that was requested. It is being carried out. It will be resolved. But I have to add if there's going to be a security review about me, there's going to have to be security reviews about a lot of other people, including Republican office holders, because we've got this absurd situation of retroactive classifications.” PeopleIfsSituationSecurityRepublicanOfficePercentAddIncludingAbsurdReviewsClassification Author:Hillary Clinton
“Due to the major demographic changes we have gone through in the last few years in this country, we will be a majority/minority nation and there are a large number of people who do not like that. Donald Trump has tapped into those people's fears because he comes from the extreme right wing part of the Republican Party, as does Ted Cruz. They believe that we should cut taxes to wealthy Americans and enforce anti immigrant laws. They don't believe in Education or Social Security, they would end it and change it and privatize it.” PeopleShouldYearsBelieveDoeEndsCountryLastsLawNationsSocialPartyNumbersGoneCuttingSecurityTrumpRepublicanTaxesMajorsMajorityWingsDon't BelieveExtremesDuesMinoritiesImmigrantsWealthyRepublican PartySocial SecurityRight WingLarge NumbersDemographicsCruz Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“Republicans are suggesting that you take your retirement money and invest it in the stock market to take care of yourself but that leaves you with choices that you may not know anything about. The purpose of social Security is that you don't fall through the crack and find yourself destitute.” KnowsMayCarePurposeChoicesFallSocialSecurityRepublicanTake CareFinding YourselfCracksRetirementSocial SecuritySuggestingTake Care Of YourselfDestitute Author:Debbie Wasserman Schultz
“The reality is that the Republicans twice had Mitt Romney as a potential nominee. They chose him in 2008 - 2012. In 2008 and 2012, he had been the most get tough on illegal immigrants, on undocumented immigrants, illegals, as he called them, accused John McCain of wanting to give them Social Security checks, accused Mike Huckabee selling out to them with the DREAM Act in Arkansas, was really the most strident.” GivingDreamRealitySocialSecurityRepublicanToughChecksSellingImmigrantsIllegalSocial SecurityAccusedMikeRomneyMccainIllegal ImmigrantsArkansasSelling OutUndocumented ImmigrantsDream Act Author:Mark Shields
“So you've got these regular, middle-class voters who don't hate the government as much as the Kochs do. They're Republicans, but they still want government programs. They want Social Security, they want Medicare. They need it.” WantNeedsStillsGovernmentHateSocialClassMiddleSecurityRepublicanProgramMiddle ClassVotersWant MeSocial SecurityMedicareDon't HateGovernment Programs Author:Jane Mayer
“It's one of the reasons [Vladimir Putin invitation to U.S] why 50 national security officials who served in Republican information - in administrations have said that Donald [Trump] is unfit to be the commander- in-chief. It's comments like that that really worry people who understand the threats that we face.” PeopleSaidReasonFacesWorrySecurityInformationTrumpRepublicanThreatChiefsAdministrationOfficialsCommentNational SecurityInvitationsCommandersPutinCommander In Chief Author:Hillary Clinton
“You have two parties that are funded by deep corporate interests, largely overlapping, that you begin to see a convergence. You have the Republican intelligentsia and the Republican spokespeople, and 50 GOP security figures who have all come into Hillary's [Clinton] camp. Not to mention Mitt Romney, who has defected from [Donald] Trump, although it's not clear where his vote is going to be. But everyone from John Negroponte to Meg Whitman have all declared allegiance to Hillary. And Hillary has likewise, very formally opened the door to encouraging Republicans to come in.” TwoInterestPartyClearDoorsSecurityFiguresTrumpRepublicanVoteClintonCorporateCampsRomneyAllegianceGopConvergenceMegOverlappingSpokespeople Author:Jill Stein
“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
“From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8.” IfsGovernmentEconomySecurityRepublicanEthicsLifetimeNational SecurityOnce In A Lifetime Author:Paul Gigot
“Back in March, before Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination for president, a group of national security heavyweights signed an open letter that called Trump fundamentally dishonest and utterly unfit for the presidency. Now, two days after Trump's victory, some in the national security establishment are wondering whether to return to the fold.” TwoPresidentWonderGroupsSecurityReturnTrumpVictoryRepublicanLettersMarchEstablishmentPresidencyNational SecurityFoldsTwo DaysSecuredNominationsHeavyweights Author:Ari Shapiro
“[Michael Flynn is] controversial among many people in the national security establishment, many people in the Republican mainstream. The thing about this appointment that, again, goes to me is most.” PeopleSecurityRepublicanEstablishmentMainstreamNational SecurityControversialAppointments Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“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
“Believe me, every American, every person in this country, if I have anything to say about it, will know precisely what is going on with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, because they are beginning to appoint people who are typical right-wing Republicans who want to privatize and cut Social Security.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantBelievePersonsCountrySocialCuttingSecurityRepublicanWingsBelieve In MeTypicalSocial SecurityRight WingMedicareMedicaidMedicare And Medicaid Author:Bernie Sanders
“I still don't feel responsible for what Donald Trump says or does. But I do feel a responsibility as president of the United States to make sure that I facilitate a good transition and I present to him as well, as the American people my best thinking, my best ideas about how you move the country forward. To speak out with respect to areas where I think the Republican party's wrong, but to pledge to work with them on those things that I think will advance the causes of security and prosperity and justice and inclusiveness in America.” PeopleThinkingFeelsWellsDoeStillsIdeasCountryStatesAmericaMovingSpeakCausesPresidentJusticeUnitedPartyResponsibilityUnited StatesSecurityTrumpRepublicanAreasResponsibleProsperityTransitionRepublican PartyPledgeSpeaks OutFacilitateInclusiveness Author:Barack Obama
“Right now, what my job is - pardon me? Those are just words. Right now, what my - my job is right now going beyond media conflicts and words is to say that Donald Trump, among other things, told the American people he would not cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and right now Republicans in the House and Senate are doing just that.” PeopleJobsHouseSocialCuttingSecurityMediaTrumpRepublicanRight NowConflictSenateSocial SecurityPardonMedicareMedicaidPardon MeMedicare And Medicaid Author:John Lewis
“I think an increasing number of Republicans are perplexed and actually nervous about Donald Trump and Russia, nervous in the sense that he is gratuitously giving Democrats the national security advantage, that they're standing up for the country.” ThinkingGivingCountryNumbersSecurityTrumpRepublicanAdvantageStandingDemocratRussiaNervousNational SecurityPerplexed Author:Mark Shields
“As speaker [Paul] Ryan suggested, I think they`re trying to go back to the Republican dodge and saying we`re going to focus on border security first, focus on criminals in this country first, and try to punt down the road issues like the 12 million people who are here illegally.” PeopleThinkingTryingFirstsCountryMillionsIssuesFocusSecurityRepublicanCriminalsBordersSpeakersDown The RoadDodgeBorder Security Author:Mark Halperin
“The Republican Party is the party of national security. There's hardly a national security wing of the Democratic Party anymore. So if we turn away from it, that'll be a big problem.” IfsProblemBigsTurnsPartySecurityRepublicanWingsDemocraticRepublican PartyNational SecurityDemocratic PartyBig Problems Author:John Bolton
“My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some of these other major expenditures that we have that we've got to deal with to make sure that we're not just leaving you guys with a mountain of debt.” WellsGuySocialDealsSecurityRepublicanMountainMajorsDemocraticLeavingDebtAgreementSocial SecurityExpenditures Author:Barack Obama
“Maybe [the Republicans] 'll find ways around it, but the financial system of the world depends very heavily on the credibility of the US Treasury Department. US Treasury securities are what's called "good as gold"; they're the basis of international finance, and if the government can't uphold them, if they become valueless, the effect on the international financial system could be quite severe. But in order to destroy a limited health-care law, the right-wing Republicans, the reactionary Republicans, are willing to do that.” IfsWorldWayGovernmentCareLawOrderEffectsSecurityWillingDependsRepublicanGoldBasesWingsFinancialInternationalFinanceHealth CareDepartmentSevereCredibilityRight WingTreasuryReactionariesFinancial SystemValuelessUs Treasury Author:Noam Chomsky