We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
I tend to vote Republican, but I don’t like the hardcore views on either side, and I’m not in bed with anybody.
No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy – Democrat, Republican or otherwise.
Well, my constituents are happy that the Republican Party has finally gotten off its duff, seeing that we do control the House and the Senate and the presidency, and taken up the issue of illegal immigration.
President Obama is now losing to ‘Republican Nominee’ in polls – no name needed.
I would wear one of those plastic pocket protectors, but they make you look like a Republican.
I’m the ranking Republican on the foreign aid appropriations subcommittee, so I know Tunisia well.
Well, I’ve been a Republican for all of my voting life.
In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.
I don’t care who the president is – it ain’t just all about who’s black or who’s white or who’s Republican or Democrat, it’s about who is for the betterment of people, period.
My military service is the thing I’m most proud of, but when I think of everything happening in the Middle East, I can’t help but tell myself I wish we would have achieved some sort of lasting victory. No one touched that subject before Trump, especially not in the Republican Party.
Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.
I’m a Bill Clinton social Republican.
It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.
Republican secretaries of state from Kissinger to Baker, Powell to Rice, President Bush, 71 United States Senators all supported President Obama’s new START treaty, but not Mitt Romney.
There’s a huge cost in being bipartisan, a tradition started by Newt Gingrich when he took over the House in 1994 and has continued forward, that you dare not vote against the Republican Party even if you’re voting against your own initiatives and your own interests.
I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.
It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you’re a Democrat.
The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there – from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security – are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.
I don’t think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don’t like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world’s problems.
In 1993, as House Democratic Leader, I led the fight to pass the Clinton-Gore economic plan – a plan designed to slash the deficit, invest in education, cut taxes for working families, and ask the wealthy among us to pay their fair share… Not one Republican voted for that plan. They said it was a job killer.
I don’t understand how anybody’s still a Democrat or a Republican. I don’t know what they’re basing it on.
I was a Mitt Romney Republican because he was pro-business.
And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today.
I will continue to work with the Republican Party to try to encourage primaries.
Joe Scarborough was one of 74 Republicans elected to the Congress in 1994 in response to the missteps of the early Clinton era. He was the first Republican elected to Congress from his northern Florida district since the 1870s and handily won re-election three times.
Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!
I changed to Republican when Reagan became president because I wanted to see a change to years of Democrat-run Senate. And I voted Republican until Obama. I think he’s terrific.
Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party.
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.
I consider myself a Republican.
The British don’t runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We’re used to it.
It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.
I’m not a Republican.
Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I’ve come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it.
As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.
If any Republican nominee wants to run on the idea that borrowing money and printing it up and sending it to foreign countries that often hate us and burn our flag and think it’s a good idea, feel free to run on that issue. But it’s not really popular with the people.
I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I’m pretty strong on, on defense matters.
You’ve got to speak; you’ve got to be able to articulate the Republican message to the American people and take that fight to the president, but you also have to bridge internally.
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?
The Republican establishment may in fact be so desirous of getting rid of the Tea Party as its base, they may be willing to lose some elections in order to get rid of their base and put up a new base.
I’ve often heard the complaint from both Democrat and Republican voters alike that they hate the fact that politicians get into office and they – and they’re fearful, they’re fearful to make tough decisions because they think more about the next election than they do about the next-generation.
I’m neither Democrat nor Republican.
The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.
I never really thought that anyone thought there was just one kind of Republican woman.
If you’re honest with yourself, you’re going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.
It’s not politically incorrect to say you’re Republican or conservative.
My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.
A Republican in my state of Arkansas feels about as out of place as Michael Vick at the West Minister dog show.
It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue – it is an American issue.
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 father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat.
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.
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
Thank God for some Republican control of one branch of the government.
I’ve been a staunch Republican.
The term ‘serious actor’ is kind of an oxymoron, isn’t it? Like ‘Republican party’ or ‘airplane food.’
Originally, I thought Republican. Now I’m an equal opportunity politician-hater.
I don’t necessarily support Romney, I don’t consider myself a Republican. I’m pretty much an independent.
Unfortunately, the Republican leadership in the House right now seems to have been strangled by the tea party.
I’m not a hard-line Republican, because I’m a lot more open-minded than that.
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.
