Republican Quotes

Sometimes you have to beat the Republicans before you beat the Democrats.

There is only one candidate in this election who can universally mobilize conservatives, and as evident from the variety of primary victors, none of them is a Republican. It's Hillary Clinton.

I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.

So let's see what they [Republicans] are going to do. If they're going to put together great programs, and everybody understands that they're good.

I'll beat up on Republicans and Democrats alike, and they don't like it.

Libertarians love their children at least as much as the Democrats and the Republicans, probably more.

In fact, you see Hillary [Clinton] moving very far to the left. You see all the Republicans moving very far to the right.

There's just the unabashed and unprecedented and disgusting level of money in politics. I don't blame just the Republicans; the Democrats are just about as beholden to it, too.

The base of our party is commonsense conservatives.If the Republican Party gets back to that base, I think our party's going to be stronger and there's not going to be a need for a third party.

It shouldn't be a Republican or Democratic issue whether we take care of the environment. That should be a human issue.

Most people don't see themselves as Democrats or Republicans. They see themselves as Americans.

All of our political parties are bought and paid for by corporate America, Wall Street, and the wealthy interests. The Republican Party more so, but the Democrats take their share of the loot, too.

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

It's secret that evangelical Christians are critical players in Republican primaries.

They (voters) want to know what's the truth. They're not interested in a chameleon.

I think [Donald Trump's] incentives are not aligned with the Republican Party. I mean, they are part of the time, but they're not all of the time.

He [Donald Trump] hasn't shifted on a lot of the things that he had in common with his Republican opponents.

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

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

I've had more than a few battles with a Republican president. ... I am not immune [to] disagreeing with people who otherwise I support.

Let me put it very plainly, if we Republicans choose Donald Trump as our nominee, the prospects for a safe and prosperous future are greatly diminished.

I think people recognize that I'm not a partisan Republican that I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.

It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.

I was an avidly pro-life governor; I'm an avidly pro-life individual. As a pro-life Republican, I am in favor of having the Supreme Court overturn Roe v. Wade.

Republicans prefer straight talk to politically correct talk!

Washington is broken. I know what it takes to get this country back, and will work with good Democrats and good Republicans to do that.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

Republicans always are gearing whatever they do to benefit the high end.

President Obama came up with tremendous ideas, but he was blocked by the Republicans.

When you're in an economic downturn, what you want is to create jobs and economic growth. And the recipe isn't Republican or Democrat. It's low taxes, low spending, less regulation, free trade.

It doesn't matter if it's a Republican or a Democrat. If you do the right policies, you get economic growth.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.

And turns out, it's not Republicans throwing granny off a cliff... It's the Fed!?

The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party.

The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized.

Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.

The Republicans went so far to the right that they just can't get votes. They've become a dedicated party of the very rich and the corporate sector.

The Republican Primaries were quite interesting. The establishment had its candidate, [Mitt] Romney, a kind of a Wall Street lawyer and investor, and they wanted him in. But the base didn't want him.

[Donald Trump] is going to be tainted by scandal. Congress hangs by just three Republican votes. If he loses three Republicans, you're going to see investigations, subpoenas.

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.

I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck.

The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes.

I always thought there was some romance to that '30s leftist stuff, even though I'm a Republican.

Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.

We want...as soon as possible to see a majority of the Republican Party in the hands of pro-family Christians by 1996.

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.

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

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.