When, in 2012, Newt Gingrich was asked about how his religious beliefs would affect his conduct should he become president, the Republican nominee hopeful answered, “One of the reasons I am running is there has...

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

It is easier for a republican form of government to be applauded than realized

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

Bush is campaigning for a Republican Senate because if he doesn’t have one … he’s not going to be very productive.

If I were a Republican, I would be scratching my head and saying I had just voted for a bill that would ultimately cost far more than the war.

He is a good guy, but I truly believe he is a Republican.

No question about it, it’s a Democrat issue and Republican support is going to be limited and halting. If it happens, it will be as a compromise on other issues. The odds are against any...

Those of us in the Congress must confront and overcome Republican intransigence to increasing the minimum wage, extending unemployment insurance and protecting food stamps.

Yes, I am a Republican, and yes, I am asking for your vote, … The fact is, you haven’t heard many people in my party stand before you and ask you for your vote. That...

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.

You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand of Republicanism that is being so vocally promoted today.

Republican or Democrat, this nation’s affluent urban and suburban classes understand their bread is buttered on the corporate side. The primary difference between the two parties is that the Republicans pretty much admit that they...

Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system’s first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not...

Going into the Republican Party National Convention, in all objective truth, our non‑winning front‑runners are the sorriest collection of stuffed shirts, empty suits, self‑gratulatory ignorami, and outright wig‑flipped ding‑dongs in the history of the Republic.

That’s why you never saw him on TV during the Republican National Convention. Even they were too embarrassed to show him.

Henry Waxman never met a Republican he didn’t want to investigate.

I’ve disowned my brother. He’s a Republican.

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.

It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path – up or down – meaning it isn’t always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To...

Collateral damage could be somebody like Mike DeWine. He is from Ohio and he is a Republican and ethics is a big deal there.

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.

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic.

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

I personally never expected anything of Obama, and wrote about it before the 2008 primaries. I thought it was smoke and mirrors […] I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun...

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

If we’re going to end up with a lower turnout special election, that’s one in which a Republican may be able to do a little better. But I’ve got to believe that you’re still going...

We get one Republican vote for every two Democratic votes, some polls have told us.

I’m a conservative Republican.

I wanted to do everything I could to see that we put a Republican president in the White House after the 2000 elections and give him a Republican Congress, and to add to our majorities...

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

From the people who brought you “zero tolerance,” I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?

It seems like whenever we go into an election, we are down in the polls. Republican activists are at their strongest when they are backed into a corner.

the decline — perhaps historic — of the so-called French model of republican integration.

People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, ‘Well, are you a Republican...

Christianity is the perfection of American principles. Christianity is the perfection of democratic party principles of civil rights, protection of the environment, equality, women’s rights, and peace. Christianity is the perfection of republican party principles...

We believe he is out of step with his district. Hopefully there will be good alternative Republican candidates.

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

We not only see this as important for the Republican ticket for governor, we really do believe that focusing on success means not just focusing on the race for governor. We believe that with this...

The Republican ROMP program is a group of Republican incumbents they believe to be the most vulnerable. Changing the rules halfway through is a lame way to explain their fundraising problems.