I have serious challenges with Donald Trump and his messaging that is going to make it more difficult for us to bring in minorities, Hispanics, into the party and into our voting base in November. I would be concerned about him carrying the banner for the Republican Party.
The Republican party is changing. It’s becoming more populist.
The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.
I’d like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.
It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.
Once the religious right got their beachhead in the Republican Party in 1980, they expanded it. Even Barry Goldwater was extremely hostile to the religious right, but Reagan catered to them. The religious right then expanded their base and that drove the moderates out.
The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He’s an insider. He’s a moderate.
I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.
I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don’t know that I believe ’em.
Joe Biden stands out from other Democratic candidates not just by taking on President Trump directly but also by seeking to separate Trump from the rest of the Republican Party.
We’ve changed in the sense that we flipped – and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.
I always start my discussions with the Tea Party groups with telling them, ‘you know I have only three words for you: God. Bless. You.’ Because the Tea Party’s bringing the Republican party back to a more conservative base.
Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.
While pro-lifers and social conservatives form one of the most important blocks of support for the Republican Party, they are traditionally taken for granted. At conventions, their issues are downplayed, if not ignored.
I think we’re probably more unified than ever before because we’re in a battle for survival. Not only for survival as the Republican Party, but survival of the check and balance system in our government.
The Republicans have lost their standards; they’ve lost their principles… Really, that’s why the machine in the Republican Party is fighting against me… They have never really gone along with lower taxes and less government.
One of the greatest falsehoods of American politics over the past several decades is that the Republican party is the party of fiscal responsibility.
Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he’s always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that’s what makes him Newt Gingrich.
The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans.
I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.
I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.
There’s no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there’s been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I’ve always believed in the separation of church and state.
The beauty of the tea party movement is that it is independent and thus a true check and balance of the Republican and Democrat parties. It’s not a pawn of the GOP, thus untouchable in criticism of the Democrats – I view it as an unattached conscience of the Republican party.
I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn’t have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.
The Republican Party stinks because all of the Republicans have accomplished nothing, and they talk about all of these issues and do nothing about it for a whole lifetime.
Trump’s enduring appeal is a resource to be harnessed by the Republican Party, not a burden to be jettisoned.
In the 1880s and 1890s, extremists in the Republican party also threatened the future of the US. Just when it seemed the extremists’ control of the government was complete, their political machinations, propaganda, and demonization of their opposition fueled a dramatic backlash.
These 21st-century ‘teavangelicals,’ who represent a considerable segment of the Republican party, are vastly different from their 19th-century forebears. Nineteenth-century evangelicals were concerned with societal ills such as temperance, slavery, the rise of industrialisation and suffrage.
But in the right-wing media, they do have a right-wing bias. And they also have an agenda. So their agenda is: we’re an adjunct of the Republican Party, and we’re going push that agenda every day, and, as you say, brand these stories that help further the right-wing cause.
Ronald Reagan wasn’t in the establishment of the Republican Party either, nor was Richard Nixon.
In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.
You won’t hear the leadership in the Republican Party admit it, but there are many in the House and Senate who know that illegal immigration has to be stopped and legal immigration has to be reduced. We are giving away the country so a few very rich people can get richer.
After Trump, it will be a different Republican party… and for American workers, families, and communities, that is fantastic news.
I grew up in a Texas where people would say, ‘I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left me.’ Now, the reverse is happening. People are leaving the Republican Party because the Republican Party is going too far to the right in Texas. And that’s a source of great potential support for Democrats.
The Republican Party is extremely pro-women.
Well, I think that it’s clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life.
One of the things I’m keen on doing is really revealing the degree to which the conservative movement, and by extension the Republican Party, has become a racket.
We see ourselves in the House as sort of the engine room of the ship of the Republican Party. We’re down in the bottom… in the bowels shoveling coal into the furnace. And, by the way, there’s nothing wrong with coal.
