Republican famous quotes
06-24-2025
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Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.
-- Aaron Klein -
You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
-- Aaron McGruder -
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.
-- Adam Carolla -
Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
-- Adam McKay -
If Republicans eliminate Medicare, America will become a country in which you can never retire - and once you physically can no longer work, you are desperately poor until you die.
-- Al Franken -
I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. I'm an Alan Simpson Republican.
-- Alan K. Simpson -
It's like the neighborhood I would have grown up in, I think, if I had have grown up here.
-- Alan Keyes -
Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.
-- Alan Rudolph -
Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?
-- Allison Janney -
I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.
-- Alphonso Jackson -
I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.
-- Andy Borowitz -
Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.
-- Andy Borowitz -
If its platform is any guide, the Republican party is staunchly pro-life until you are actually born.
-- Andy Borowitz -
The Republican Party did not disparage the ruling class, because most of its officials are or would like to be part of it.
-- Angelo Codevilla -
The fact that a Republican is in the late Senator Kennedy's old seat probably must have him rolling in his grave, probably spilling his drink.
-- Ann Coulter -
There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.
-- Ann Coulter -
I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.
-- Ann Coulter -
Join the Republican party if you cannot abide Democrats. You will probably loathe Republicans just as much, but there are fewer of them.
-- Anthony -
We're not a homogeneous party, anymore than the Republicans are. But we are a party that I think has a plan to take us forward.
-- Antonio Villaraigosa -
Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.
-- Antonio Villaraigosa -
If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.
-- Ari Fleischer -
When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.
-- Arlen Specter -
We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.
-- Barack Obama -
I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.
-- Barbara Boxer -
Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots.
-- Barney Frank -
What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.
-- Barney Frank -
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.
-- Benjamin Rush -
Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.
-- Bernie Sanders -
At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.
-- Bev Perdue -
All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.
-- Bill Griffith -
Don't vote for Republicans or Democrats until they clean up the open system of bribery that we live under.
-- Bill Maher -
Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world
-- Bill Richardson -
In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
-- Billy Sunday -
You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.
-- Birch Bayh -
Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.
-- Bob Etheridge -
I'm chairman of the Republican Governors Association.
-- Bob McDonnell -
Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.
-- Bob Packwood -
Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.
-- Bobby Sands -
I guess it's not the plan that counts, but the words in which the plan is wrapped. Semantics count for everything, and it's obvious that the resolute Republicans are better at semantics than the weak, flip-flopping Democrats.
-- Bruce Barnbaum -
We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.
-- Buenaventura Durruti -
Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.
-- Carly Fiorina -
Republicans absolutely support equal pay for equal work.
-- Cathy McMorris Rodgers -
Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.
-- Cathy McMorris Rodgers -
I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.
-- Charles Evers -
Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.
-- Charles Evers -
I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.
-- Charles Evers -
So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else.
-- Charles Evers -
I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.
-- Charles H. Percy -
A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.
-- Charles Inglis -
I didn't leave the Republican Party. It left me.
-- Charlie Crist -
I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.
-- Charlie Crist -
We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.
-- Che Guevara -
I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.
-- Chely Wright -
There is no evidence that government under Republicans will shrink. It`s simply a question of what the government will do and who will benefit.
-- Chris Hayes -
For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.
-- Christopher Dodd -
But I came from a conservative Republican background.
-- Christopher Meloni -
If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.
-- Chuck Grassley -
As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.
-- Cleveland Amory -
My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.
-- Clint Eastwood -
Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.
-- Dan Quayle -
Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
-- Dan Quayle -
What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
-- Dan Quayle -
I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.
-- David A. Siegel -
The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.
-- David Dellinger -
I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.
-- David Frum -
Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.
-- David Frum -
Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.
-- David Frum -
Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox
-- David Frum -
Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.
-- David Price -
If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.
-- David Stockman -
The Ryan plan isn't a budget. It's the last will and testament of the Republican party.
-- David Stockman -
The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.
-- David Stockman -
Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz -
God is not a franchise of the Republican Party.
-- Dick Durbin -
It is not enough to say we were born to be Republicans, it's more precise to say Republicanism is part of our DNA,
-- Dolours Price -
The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.
-- Donald Rumsfeld -
When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.
-- E. J. Dionne -
If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.
-- Eamon de Valera -
I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.
-- Eazy-E -
Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.
-- Ed Case -
Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.
-- Ed Gillespie -
Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
-- Ed Gillespie -
I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
-- Ed Rollins -
I applaud the fact that the president has reached out to the members of Judiciary Committee. And I applaud. the fact that he has been meeting with members of the Judiciary Committee. He's been seeking out Republicans as well as Democrats.
-- Edward Kennedy -
... if the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to?
-- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett -
Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.
-- Elizabeth Drew -
I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.
-- Elizabeth Emken -
We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.
-- Emanuel Cleaver -
We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.
-- Emanuel Cleaver
