Republican Quotes

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

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.

We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party.

During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.

Who needs enemies when you've got Republican Surrenderists for Obamacare waiting in the wings?

The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

The problem is we moved to LA... The only way to be punk rock in L.A. is to be a Republican.

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Who do you think controls the Republican Party? Big money controls the Republican Party. This is where their campaign contributions come from.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

The Republican Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of cheap labor, satisfying a very important constituency.

We have to implant democracies where there are now dictatorships.

This person should not be directly connected with the President Ford Committee nor should he be seen as a member of the liberal wing of the Republican Party. He should be someone like Laird or Rogers Morton.

The endorsement of respected conservative Republican officeholders and politicians is particularly important at this time as to destroy Reagan's credibility as a loyal Republican.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

And I think Governor Romney has a shot if the 'R' next to his name doesn't just stand for 'Republican,' it stands for 'reformer.'

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

My policy is I will help any policymaker who asks, whether they be a Republican or a Democrat.

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

I can't go out with a Republican.

The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.

I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican.

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.

There is no real third party in America. There's this one party that has two sides to it - the Democratic and Republican side. It's one party that has two heads.

For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.

The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.

Obama not only falsely represented the Republican position - as usual - he shamelessly pretended that he was The One 'fighting so hard to cut middle-class taxes.' Baloney!

I am a conservative who happens to not be a Republican.

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.

If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.

It must kill George Bush that John McCain is the most popular and Beloved Republican in America.

I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

Barack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I've been around. He's fresh, he's new, he's insightful.

Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.

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.

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.

We as governors, whether we're Republican or Democrat, we really believe that we know what's best for our people. And in Arizona, and particularly we're very interested about natural resources.

I know nothing about Christianity, nothing about football, and I'm not a Republican.

As a Republican, I am all for competition.

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

I will support the Republican nominee.

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

I'm not a Republican.

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men.

I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.

The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.

You know, I've got experiences going back to the wage price controls in the Nixon administration where, in effect, we had what I think was a terrible mistake, in that case a Republican administration, where moved in and tried to control the wages, prices and profits of every enterprise in America. It was a huge mistake.

Veterans have had a long record of leaning towards the Republican Party. I think that's changing. I think that President Obama has the strongest record with veterans among any president in my lifetime.

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.

I was the last Republican lieutenant governor and it's been over 20 years.

I think it's a tremendous opportunity, particularly given the complexion of the overall voter structure in California. It's very hard for a Republican to get elected.

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.