Quotes about republicans
George Packer -
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold War. Despite the passions over various issues, government functioned pretty well. Legislators routinely crossed party lines when they voted, and when they drank; filibusters in the Senate were reserved for the biggest bills; think tanks produced independent research, not partisan talking points. The "D." or "R." after a politician's na
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I am not red or blue. I am red, white and blue. Those are the same colors in my body (my heart, blood and veins). I am only human, and the human race is the only race in which I am an active participant - mind, body and soul.
Noam Chomsky - Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian
Our philosophy is to rob everything as much as possible and forget about tomorrow...But it makes a certain sense if the sole human value is making as much wealth as you can tomorrow. You don't care what happens down the road and you don't care what happens to anybody else. It makes perfect sense. If it destroys the world, well, it's not my problem.
Garrison Keillor - Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America
The Union is what needs defending this year. Government of Enron and by Halliburton and for the Southern Baptists is not the same as what Lincoln spoke of. This gang of Republicans has humbugged us to death on terrorism and tax cuts for the comfy and school prayer and flag burning and claimed the right to know what books we read and to dump their sewage upstream from the rest of us and clear-cut the forests and gut the IRS and promote the corporate takeover of the public airwaves and to hell wit
Byron Goines - The 2014 Midterm Elections
As a Republic governed through the utilization of a democratic process, elections are necessary in order to give every United States citizen a voice in the governing of this great nation.
George Seldes -
The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and where the list frequently differs the same interests are represented.
David T. Dellinger -
The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.
Martin McGuinness -
But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.
Adlai E. Stevenson -
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Brad Henry -
This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.
P.J. O'Rourke - Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work, and then they get elected and prove it.
Glenn Beck -
We must sober up and admit that too many of the Republicans and the Democrats have played us, lied to us and stolen from us, while the getaway car was driven by the media. A media that can no longer claim with a straight face the role of journalist. Journalists print the things the powerful don’t want printed. What they do is public relations. Those PR firms will not print the truth about the average American who finds himself concerned with the direction of our country today. So we must. We are
Amy Davidson -
For an entire wing of the G.O.P., a dysfunctional government, whose only visible activity is mismanaging crises, is not an embarrassment but the vindication of a worldview.
A.E. Samaan -
The opposite of Nazi is neither Republican nor Democrat, conservative or liberal. Totalitarianism's diametric opposite of is Libertarianism.
Michael Moore -
...I have a theory about why and how all this has happened to you.Instead of having to earn it, you have been handed the presidency, the same way you've come by everything else in your life. Money and name alone have opened every door for you. Without effort or hard work or intelligence, or ingenuity, you have been bequeathed a life of privilege...So it's no wonder you think you deserved to be named President. You didn't earn it or win it- therefore it must be yours!
Harry Reid -
Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).
Thomas E. Mann - It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism
Today's Republican Party...is an insurgent outlier. It has become ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence, and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition, all but declaring war on the government. The Democratic Party, while no paragon of civic virtue, is more ideologically centered and diverse, protective of the government's role as it de
James Crumley - The Mexican Tree Duck
It wasn’t a party that a Republican could understand--the marijuana smoke sweet on the air, the occasional cocaine sniffle, cold Mexican beer, good food, great conversation, and laughter--but a Parisian deconstructionist scholar might find it about as civilized as America gets. Or at least the one I met, who was visiting at UTEP, maintained. Somewhere along the way, he claimed, Americans had forgotten how to have a good time. In the name of good health, good taste, and political correctness from
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables
Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people.
T. Rafael Cimino - Split... Civility For A Divided Nation
The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It's a circle.
Phillip Andrew Bennett Low - Indecision Now! A Libertarian Rage
So, I’m a playwright. In Minneapolis. Which means that I find myself operating in a pretty lefty crowd, most of the time. And most of my energy goes towards arguing with that, and musing about how I really fucking can’t stand Democrats. So I was startled to be reminded of a fact that I’d almost entirely forgotten: I really fucking can’t stand Republicans.
David Corralez -
A Dirty Clown Is a Ridiculously Clean when standing amongst Politicians.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I am not for the left or the right, but for what is right over the wrong. I am not an elephant or a donkey, but a lion that stands only with Truth and my conscience.
Dennis Kucinich -
Now, if there were an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating then this administration would take the gold, world-records for violations of national and international law. They want another four year term to continue to alienate our allies, spend our children's inheritance and hollow out the economy. We cannot afford another Republican administration.
Richard D. Kahlenberg - Broken Contract
Republicans don't want to 'save the world' they want to save the country from those who would 'save the world.
Barry M. Goldwater -
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.
Steven Magee -
Voting for the Green Party is how you say 'Up Yours!' to the Republicans and Democrats.
Joseph J. Haeggquist -
Ten men shouting will control ten thousand who choose to remain silent.
Jay Leno -
Bob Dole revealed he is one of the test subjects for Viagra. He said on Larry King, 'I wish I had bought stock in it.' Only a Republican would think the best part of Viagra is the fact that you could make money off of it.
Paul Tsongas -
I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.
Howard Dean -
I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.
Herman Cain -
The problem with that analysis is that it is incorrect.
Charlie Savage - Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from service during his draft-eligible years.
Will Durst -
How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.
Frank Zappa -
Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
P.J. O'Rourke - Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government
The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
P.J. O'Rourke -
We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it...
Jimmy Carter -
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Stephen Colbert -
Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion.Stephen Colbert: Over 90 percent, that is unbelievable...in that it is not true. Only 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Kyle just rounded it up to the nearest 90.
Harry Truman -
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.
John Leguizamo -
Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.
Harry Truman -
Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged.
Tim Kreider - Twilight of the Assholes
My feeling toward Republicans is like my feeling about sharks: of course they're stupid and vicious. It's in their nature to be mindless, ravening killing machines. It's nothing personal. They don't know any better. Pretty much the only thing you can do about them is stay out of their waters and, if you're unlucky enough to meet with one, shoot it through its rudimentary brain with a spear gun.
Eddie Whitlock -
There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young.
Peter Hart -
It’s not just tougher out there. It’s become a situation where the contest is how much you can destroy the system, rather than how much you can make it work. It makes no difference if you have a ‘D’ or an ‘R’ after your name. There’s no sense that this is about democracy, and after the election you have to work together, and knit the country together. The people in the game now just think to the first Tuesday in November, and not a day beyond it.
Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
At the end of the day, I do not care how many Democrats or Republicans are in office. What I do care about is whether our leader is truly serving THE PEOPLE or only his/her own pockets. Is our leader in tune with the concerns and needs of the man on the street - or only issues concerning private interests? Is this leader uniting or dividing the country? Milking or contributing to it? Building and preserving it -- or bringing it all down?
J.Adam Snyder -
For Republicans, life begins at conception but ends at birth.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong.
George Carlin -
Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.
Harry Truman -
Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing. They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights. They favor minimum wage--the smaller the minimum wage the better. They endorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them. They consi
Harry Truman -
The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better.
Noam Chomsky -
Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]
Bill Maher -
If a fourteen year-old can deliver your message, it's not because he's gifted. It's because intellectually, you're a child.
James Morcan - The Ninth Orphan
Democrats and Republicans were essentially the same party with different faces and that was why, no matter how many promises each leader made, significant change rarely transpired.
Rod Dreher -
Sex and commerce are fine things, but man cannot live by Viagra and the Dow Jones alone. A life led collecting things and experiences in pursuit of happiness is not necessarily a bad life, but it’s not a good life either. Too often, the Democrats act like the Party of Lust, and the Republicans the Party of Greed. Both are deadly sins that eat at the soul.