Republicans have become complacent. They gained their ascendancy by being better on the economic issues, but now they’re frozen by their desire to maintain the status quo.

I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans.

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...

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all...

Early on, he monopolized fundraising, he called upon his ties with other Republicans and he had a huge advantage. But now, as these allegations have come out, it’s hurt his ability to raise money and...

The political spectrum is not a straight, bi-polar line. It’s a circle.

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.

The Republicans on the Judiciary Committee and the Republicans in the House have finally come clean about what they’re up to. They have, despite all the protestations that this a narrow, narrowly focused process looking...

Either things are so bad for Republicans in Florida that even their cars are turning blue, or it’s an acknowledgement that to compete in a Republican primary against Katherine Harris’ $10-million, the speaker’s going to...

All of a sudden Republicans trust judges to conduct the terrorism war? All of a sudden judges are the end all when it comes to national security?

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...

I don’t hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.

Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics

Those Republicans, like Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes, who have embraced the Clinton-Gore policy of appeasing China with most-favored-nation trade privileges bear equal responsibility for the Iowa farms that today hover on the brink of...

When he is re-elected, there will be a mass exodus of Republicans from the state payroll.

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...

There weren’t that many Republicans in Texas in those days. Harriet is what you would call a Southern lady. It is marvelous to watch her in meetings with huge egos, where she allows people to...

We are talking to a number of Republicans with national profiles who are interested in coming in or coming back. We expect some more big names.

Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong… This [is]...

The Republicans chose to hold their convention here, I think most of us believe, to continue the political exploitation of 9/11, which this administration started almost immediately after 9/11,

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...

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...

If your party serves the powerful and well-funded interests, and there’s no limit to what you can spend, you have a permanent, structural advantage. We’re averaging fifty-dollar checks in our campaign, and trying to ward...

The House Republicans couldn’t afford to elect Roy Blunt, but they weren’t honest enough to elect a real reformer.

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.

How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

I wouldn’t take him lightly at all, … Without him, the Republicans have no one. With him, they have someone who has a record of achievement.

The Republicans believe in the minimum wage — the more the minimum, the better.

This is very significant to have someone who was a Democrat for many years, and drifted over to the Republicans – like tens of millions of other Democrats known as Reagan Democrats – and then...

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...

The changes that take place when liberal Democrats replace not so liberal or compassionate Republicans (or Democrats) are merely cosmetic.

If they are going to go forward with impeachment, they’re going to have to have more witnesses … they (Republicans) may consider themselves accused of delaying. But they’ve put themselves in that bind.

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

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

[Reno’s move is still short of what Republicans would like to see.] The attorney general is taking a step in the right direction, … but, so far, she has stopped short of taking the action...

In a page ripped right out of the playbook used by President Bush and the Republicans in Washington, Gov. Fletcher has brought the Republican Party’s culture of corruption to Kentucky,

They (Republicans) are doing poorly.

This is not a time to be cutting services to the most needy among us. Are Republicans really going to cut Medicaid when we have hundreds of thousands of people displaced?

The Republicans are coming — make nice.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.

I think he’s come through in as good shape as the Republicans could have hoped.

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 wind is out of the sails of inevitability. Two-thirds of the Republicans here are not ready to crown the emperor.

Republicans have to demonstrate that they are taking this scandal seriously, that they have learned from it and are reforming the system on their own.

The only way she could win would be to repeatedly attack her fellow Republicans. She doesn’t want to win that way.

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.

The Republicans’ ability to enforce uniformity in the House has been diminished somewhat, but even given that, we would have to hope for our senators to be able to thwart them on the Senate side...

She is bound to cost Republicans some votes in some places.

[Hurricane Katrina may be a defining moment, other speakers said, and not necessarily a positive one for the Republicans.] The controlling philosophy in Washington now is to dismiss community and place all the responsibility on...

This probably won’t pass the House, but even so it sends a signal that Senate Republicans are becoming more demanding. Republican senators are more actively second-guessing the administration.