Republican Party Quotes

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.
- Walter Lippmann

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
- Harry S Truman

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.
- Glenn Beck

'Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.
- Glenn Beck

As you know now, Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican Party, but they'll probably go with a different body.
- David Letterman

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.
- Joe Biden

I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.
- John Bolton

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.
- Vincent Bugliosi

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

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.
- Jeb Bush

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.
- Herman Cain

The reason why I buy into the Democratic Party more than the Republican Party is because there are over 2,000 verses of Scripture that deal with responding to the needs of the poor.
- Tony Campolo

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.
- Jimmy Carter

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

We pledge to fight the dark forces high in the counsels of the Republican Party which have made political capital out of the techniques of character assassination by innuendo.
- Emanuel Celler

It's time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

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

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

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.
- Roscoe Conkling

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

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.
- Charlie Crist

The most disappointing thing this week is that Mitt Romney picked Paul Ryan, because he was the intellectual leader of the Republican Party. Because Paul Ryan decided to join Mitt Romney's ticket, he is completely reversed himself on some of the issues he has been very strong on, like the $716 billion in savings that are in two of his budgets.
- Stephanie Cutter

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.
- Glenn Danzig

People don't realize that they're being played by the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, but more so by the Democratic Party because the Democratic Party does not want another party in there.
- Glenn Danzig

Samuel became even more interested in politics than his father had been, served the Republican Party tirelessly as a king-maker, caused that party to nominate men who would whirl like dervishes, bawl fluent Babylonian, and order the militia to fire into crowds whenever a poor man seemed on the point of suggesting that he and a Rosewater were equal in the eyes of the law.
- Kurt Vonnegut

Sure, there's a chunk of African-Americans out there who associate the Republican Party with racism, frankly particularly in the Deep South. It's an unfair perception, but it exists. Over a period time, that perception will die away if Republicans are focusing on issues that happen to impact African-Americans.
- Artur Davis

There are no ideas in the Republican Party right now in the Congress. They're the party of no. They desperately need some intellectual leadership. And whatever you think of Newt Gingrich, he can supply intellectual leadership. So I hope he does run.
- Howard Dean

Hypocrisy is a value that I think has been embraced by the Republican Party. We get lectured by people all day long about moral values by people who have their own moral shortcomings.
- Howard Dean

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

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

The term 'serious actor' is kind of an oxymoron, isn't it? Like 'Republican party' or 'airplane food.'
- Johnny Depp

I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
- Frederick Douglass

God is not a franchise of the Republican Party.
- Dick Durbin

Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.
- Susan Estrich

A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians.
- Susan Estrich

The Republican Party is not inclusive.
- Charles Evers

The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.
- 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

The Republican Party does not reach out.
- Charles Evers

The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years.
- Chaka Fattah

I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.
- Luis Fortuno

It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
- Barney Frank

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.
- Al Franken

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
- Will Rogers

The thing that sustains a strong Fox network is the thing that undermines a strong Republican party.
- David Frum

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.
- David Frum

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.
- David Frum

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
- Barack Obama

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.
- Ed Gillespie

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.
- 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.
- Rudy Giuliani

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.
- Lyndon B Johnson

Lincoln understood the importance, as one delegate put it, of integrating all the elements of the Republican partyincluding the impracticable, the Pharisees, the better-than-thou declaimers, the long-haired men and the short-haired women.
- Doris Kearns Goodwin

There's a lot of things we can do to balance out what Obama's done and going forward show the American people the Republican Party can govern. I want a coalition of tea party people, independents, moderate Democrats trying to find a way to move this country forward before we become Greece.
- Lindsey Graham

There is no war on women. Women are doing well. But women are thoughtful. And what we in the Republican Party and across the country, Republican, Independents and Democrat women say is we're more thoughtful than a label. We care about jobs and the economy and healthcare and education. We care about a lot of different things.
- Nikki Haley

I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class.
- Angie Harmon

I'm fighting for the heart and soul of the Republican Party and I think if I win this campaign that people will take notice and the next time they select a candidate, they will look at the principles.
- Doug Hoffman

As a lifelong Republican it's time for me and everybody else to reclaim the soul of the Republican Party.
- Doug Hoffman

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.
- Jon Huntsman Jr

Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.
- William L Jenkins

The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.
- Gary Johnson

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.
- Rickie Lee Jones

The zeitgeist is for cutting spending and balancing the budget. But I do not want the Republican Party to be perceived as putting the budget ahead of people, jobs and education.
- Jack Kemp

All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
- Jack Kemp

Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.
- Adam Kinzinger

I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.
- Alf Landon

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.
- Rush Limbaugh

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.
- Frank Luntz

Second, the President's popularity has not translated into increased support for the Republican party or for the policies and approaches on domestic policy championed by the President.
- Thomas E Mann

The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.
- Ed Markey

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.
- Claire Mccaskill

The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates.
- Pete Mccloskey

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos.
- Donella Meadows

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.
- Gwen Moore

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

If the Republican Party works with the Hispanic community, the immigrant community, they're natural allies. People who came to this country are more freedom-loving and more American than people who just happened to be born here.
- Grover Norquist

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.
- Robert Novak

I want everyone in the Republican party who opposed me to know this: you are welcome to join this people's crusade. Come aboard. You are both welcome and needed. If we unite, we'll win - and we'll rebuild New York.
- Carl Paladino

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

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
- Rand Paul

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
- Rand Paul

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.
- Ron Paul

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.
- Pete Du Pont

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.
- Pete Du Pont

You can't just have slogans, you can't just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it's going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.
- Colin Powell

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.
- Jesse Ventura

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

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.
- David Remnick

I want all Hispanics in the Republican Party, in the Democratic Party, whether Latin Americans, Central Americans, Cubans, Mexicans, I want us to unite.
- Bill Richardson

I think we do want a front-runner from the Republican Party who can win the general election.
- Pat Robertson

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.
- Pat Robertson

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.
- Dana Rohrabacher

The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party of intolerance and hate. The party founded by Abraham Lincoln was a party that fought slavery and intolerance at every level.
- Ed Rollins

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 think more so than the Republican Party, we reflect America on the Democratic side of the aisle, and that's a healthy thing. I mean, that's what democracy is all about.
- Mike Ross

The Second Amendment is a constitutional right. I didn't make it up, the Republican Party didn't make it up. It's in the Constitution. I think it's just as important as any of the other rights in our constitution.
- Marco Rubio

I'm proud of the fact that the Republican Party is the pro-life party on the issue of life.
- Marco Rubio

The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country.
- Joe Scarborough

I'm serious about this. The Republican Party needs to reform or die. President Bush did three things. He destroyed the Republican majority, he crippled the American conservative movement and he weakened the country. That's a hell of a trifecta.
- Joe Scarborough

The current Republican Party is not really the Republican Party. It's been hijacked by this group that is not just Islamophobic but, really, xenophobic. They believe in sort of white, middle America, gun-toting - it's scary. They're seriously racist, racist people.
- Ron Schiller

Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.
- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

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.
- Bill Scott

I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.
- Rick Scott

The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.
- Tim Scott

I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.
- Tim Scott

I am proud that the Republican Party stands for strong support for the military, and I am sure we will consistently support our men and women serving in dangerous places around the world and their families.
- John Shimkus

When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.
- Arlen Specter

I do not represent the Republican Party.
- Arlen Specter

As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.
- Arlen Specter

There is no struggle, rift, fight between those who claim the banner of the tea party and those who are in the Republican Party. We work together.
- Michael Steele

At the end of the day, I have one job requirement right now that's been given to me by the Republican Party and, I think, the American people, and that's to fire Nancy Pelosi.
- Michael Steele

When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
- Ben Stein

Young Republicans are a very, very important constituency. Along with little old ladies, they provide the foot soldiers for the Republican Party.
- Roger Stone

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.
- Billy Sunday

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

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.
- Robert Teeter

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.
- Robert Teeter

Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected country.
- Donald Trump

I'd like to say that right now, in the last few years, the Democrats have been closer - have been more pro-environment. The coal industry is pretty well entrenched in the Republican Party and that's one of the things that we need to phase out.
- Ted Turner

I don't know if there is a Democrat who necessarily doesn't believe health care is a right instead of privilege. There is a significant between us and the Republican Party on that issue.
- Tom Vilsack

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
- Woodrow Wilson