100+ Republican Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

source: "David Axelrod and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa defend President Obama's economic record". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 2, 2012.

topic: Party, Thinking, Republican, Homogeneous

Again, if I was going to call Romney and the Republicans stupid, I'm certainly not going to call the Democrats and President Obama stupid.

- Antonio Villaraigosa

source: "David Axelrod and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa defend President Obama's economic record". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 02, 2012.

topic: Stupid, President, Republican

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

- Ari Fleischer

topic: Thinking, Light, Republican

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

- Arlen Specter

source: "POLITICO interview: Gov. Fortuno". Interview with Alexander Burns Michael Falcone, www.politico.com. May 22, 2009.

topic: Party, Republican, Stimulus

We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.

- Barack Obama

topic: Inspiring, Citizens, Republican, Days Like This, National Unity

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

- Barbara Boxer

source: Barbara Boxer's statement on her objection to the certification of Ohio's electoral votes, January 6, 2005.

topic: Independent, Voting, Republican, Inspirational Voting

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

- Barney Frank

topic: Delay, Ethics, Republican

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

- Baron de Montesquieu

topic: Government, Three, Republican

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

- Baron de Montesquieu

source: Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.106, Library of Alexandria

topic: Men, Republican, Latter, Republican Government

A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.

- Benjamin Rush

topic: Christian, Republican, Failing

Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.

- Bernie Sanders

topic: Wall, Party, Republican, Republican Party

At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.

- Bev Perdue

source: "On @CNNSOTU today: Gov. Bev Perdue, @GovernorOMalley, and @villaraigosa discuss #DNC2012". Interview with Candy Crowley, cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com. September 2, 2012.

topic: Get Better, The End Of The Day, Republican

All life is a blur of Republicans and meat.

- Bill Griffith

topic: Meat, Life Is, Republican

Don't vote for Republicans or Democrats until they clean up the open system of bribery that we live under.

- Bill Maher

topic: Vote, Republican, Democrat

Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world

- Bill Richardson

topic: Stronger, World, Republican

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: President, Momentum, Republican, Backing Down, Preventing

I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.

- Billy Sunday

topic: Toes, Republican, Temperance

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

- Birch Bayh

topic: Thinking, Needs, Republican, Family Values

Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership.

- Bob Etheridge

topic: Office, Levels, Republican, Public Office, Public Trust

I'm chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

- Bob McDonnell

source: "Romney camp doubles down on welfare reform claim". "Your World" with Stuart Varney, www.foxnews.com. August 8, 2012.

topic: Association, Republican

Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages.

- Bob Packwood

topic: Genius, Republican, Advantage, Throwing Away

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

- Bobby Sands

source: Bobby Sands (1982). “Skylark Sing Your Lonely Song: An Anthology of the Writings of Bobby Sands”, Irish Amer Book Company

topic: Play, Republican, Young

I guess it's not the plan that counts, but the words in which the plan is wrapped. Semantics count for everything, and it's obvious that the resolute Republicans are better at semantics than the weak, flip-flopping Democrats.

- Bruce Barnbaum

topic: Flip, Republican, Weak, Flopping, Semantics

We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.

- Buenaventura Durruti

source: The Toronto Daily Star, August 5, 1936.

topic: Government, Republican, Ends, Republican Government

Why in the world are you a Republican?

- Calvin Trillin

source: Calvin Trillin (2006). “About Alice”, p.43, Random House

topic: World, Republican

Well, I've been a Republican for all of my voting life.

- Carly Fiorina

topic: Voting, Republican, Wells

Republicans absolutely support equal pay for equal work.

- Cathy McMorris Rodgers

source: "Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers & Donna Edwards Discuss Mitt Romney". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 14, 2012.

topic: Equal Pay, Support, Republican

Well, I'm celebrating the fact that Republicans are doing better with women.

- Cathy McMorris Rodgers

source: "Talking Official GOP Agenda with Rep. Cathy McMorris, Gov. Bob McDonnell". Interview with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. August 27, 2012.

topic: Facts, Republican, Celebrate

I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

- Charles Evers

topic: Party, Needs, Republican

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

- Charles Evers

topic: Party, Republican, Republican Party

I'm a Republican, by the way.

- Charles Evers

topic: Way, Republican

Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one.

- Charles Evers

topic: Black, Republican, Headquarters

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

- Charles Evers

topic: Believe, I Believe, Republican

The Republican Party does not reach out.

- Charles Evers

topic: Party, Doe, Republican

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

topic: Party, Republican, Reason

I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.

- Charles H. Percy

topic: Party, Thinking, Republican, Republican Party

A State infinitely worse than that which the most inflamed Zealot, the most violent Republican or Enthusiast even pretended to dread before the Rebellion commenced.

- Charles Inglis

topic: Fear, Republican, Rebellion, Zealot

I didn't leave the Republican Party. It left me.

- Charlie Crist

source: Charlie Crist, Ellis Henican (2014). “The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat”, p.6, Penguin

topic: Party, Republican, Republican Party

I was a Republican, and I saw the activists and what they were doing; it was intolerable to me.

- Charlie Crist

topic: Saws, Republican, Activist

We have no right to believe that freedom can be won without struggle.

- Che Guevara

source: Ernesto Che Guevara, Ernesto Guevara (2000). “Che Guevara Speaks”, Pathfinder Press

topic: Believe, Struggle, Republican

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

- Chely Wright

topic: Republican, Democrat, Humans

There is no evidence that government under Republicans will shrink. It`s simply a question of what the government will do and who will benefit.

- Chris Hayes

topic: Government, Benefits, Republican

For three decades, Democrats and Republicans worked together to make our environment better.

- Christopher Dodd

topic: Together, Three, Republican

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

- Christopher Meloni

topic: Surfing, Conservative, Republican

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.

- Chuck Grassley

topic: Party, Four, Republican

As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks.

- Cleveland Amory

topic: Differences, Republican, Politician, Bolsheviks

My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Wife, Libertarian, Republican

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Way, Vote, Republican, Being Accused

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

- Dan Quayle

topic: Party, Bills, Republican

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Stupid, Mind, Republican

I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.

- David A. Siegel

topic: Doubt, President, Republican

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

- David Dellinger

topic: Cosmetics, Republican, Democrat

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

- David Frum

topic: Party, Support, Republican

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

- David Frum

source: "Frum: Conservatives fleeced and ‘lied to by conservative entertainment complex’" by Drew Katchen, www.msnbc.com. November 09, 2012.

topic: Entertainment, Conservative, Republican

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

- David Frum

topic: Moving, Unity, Republican

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

- David Frum

topic: Foxes, Republican, Discovering

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

- David Price

source: "Fall of the angry left? Will purity doom Republicans in November?". Interview with Giovanni Russonello, www.politico.com. June 08, 2010.

topic: Population, Republican, Goodness

If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing.

- David Stockman

topic: Cutting, Republican, Politician, Tax Cuts

The Ryan plan isn't a budget. It's the last will and testament of the Republican party.

- David Stockman

topic: Party, Lasts, Republican, Wills And Testaments

The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.

- David Stockman

source: "60 Minutes Promotes Washington's 1098 Income Tax Initiative, Stahl Hails Stockman as 'Brave' for Wanting Tax Hikes" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. November 1, 2010.

topic: Pain, Party, Republican

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

- Debbie Wasserman Schultz

source: "What James Carville doesn't get about Republicans" By Ari Fleischer, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2012.

topic: Party, Tea, Republican, Republican Party

God is not a franchise of the Republican Party.

- Dick Durbin

source: "Controversial Democratic platform gets a rewrite". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 6, 2012.

topic: Party, Republican, Republican Party

It is not enough to say we were born to be Republicans, it's more precise to say Republicanism is part of our DNA,

- Dolours Price

topic: Dna, Republican, Enough, Republicanism

The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.

- Donald Rumsfeld

topic: Stupid, War, Republican, War Plans, Implications

When [Republicans] say they can reduce taxes and trim deficits at the same time, they are either deluded or deceptive, and they are playing voters for fools.

- E. J. Dionne

topic: Voters, Fool, Republican

If liberty is not entire it is not liberty.

- Eamon de Valera

topic: Liberty, Republican

I'm not a registered Republican or Democrat. I don't even vote.

- Eazy-E

topic: Vote, Republican, Democrat

Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

- Ed Case

topic: Want, Vote, Republican

Texas is now a cornerstone of the electoral college for Republicans.

- Ed Gillespie

topic: College, Texas, Republican, Electoral College, Electoral Process

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

- Ed Gillespie

topic: Party, Thinking, Republican, Populist

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

source: "Commentary: Stop throwing dirt on GOP 'grave'" by Ed Rollins, www.cnn.com. May 14, 2009.

topic: Strong, Party, Republican, Opposition Parties, Predicting

I applaud the fact that the president has reached out to the members of Judiciary Committee. And I applaud. the fact that he has been meeting with members of the Judiciary Committee. He's been seeking out Republicans as well as Democrats.

- Edward Kennedy

topic: President, Facts, Republican

... if the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to?

- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

topic: Earth, Republican, Prosperity

Women and negroes, being seven-twelfths of the people, are a majority; and according to our republican theory, are the rightful rulers of the nation.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: People, Republican, Rulers

I don't care what the political establishment says, Republican, Democrat - I'm a problem solver.

- Elizabeth Emken

topic: Political, Care, Republican, Problem Solvers

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

- Emanuel Cleaver

topic: Dumb, Republican, Democrat, Dumb Things

We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.

- Emanuel Cleaver

source: Emanuel Cleaver DNC speech, www.politico.com. September 05, 2009.

topic: May, Firsts, Republican

Being desirous of allaying the dissensions of party strife now existing within our realm, I do hereby dissolve and abolish the Democratic and Republican parties, and also do hereby decree the disfranchisement and imprisonment, for not more than 10, nor less than five, years, to all persons leading to any violation of this our imperial decree.

- Emperor Norton

source: Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.11, Seven Stories Press

topic: Party, Years, Republican, Dissension

As a rule, large capitalists are Republicans and small capitalists are Democrats, but workingmen must remember that they are all capitalists, and that the many small ones, like the fewer large ones, are all politically supporting their class interests, and this is always and everywhere the capitalist class.

- Eugene V. Debs

topic: Class, Remember, Republican

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

- Fiorello H. La Guardia

topic: Way, Cleaning, Republican

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

- Fred Upton

source: "Upton to revisit light bulb ban" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. November 18, 2010.

topic: Mean, Republican, Speak

One thing everyone seems to agree on is that Republicans face a perceived compassion deficit.

- Gary Bauer

source: "How Republicans can become 'compassionate conservatives' again" by Gary Bauer, www.foxnews.com. March 25, 2013.

topic: Compassion, Faces, Republican

Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rhetoric and wicked accusations to marginalize Republicans.

- Gary Bauer

topic: Wicked, News, Republican

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

- George McGovern

topic: Character, Republican, Made

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

- George McGovern

topic: Years, Republican, Accusing

History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.

- George Washington

topic: Government, Republican, Influence, Insidious, Farewell Address

I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system.

- Gerrit Smith

topic: Republican, Come Up

There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.

- Gerry Adams

topic: Needs, Republican, Unionism

Sinn Fein has the potential and capacity to become the vehicle for the attainment of republican objectives.

- Gerry Adams

source: Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

topic: Republican, Capacity, Sinn Fein

It is a greater thing to be a good citizen than to be a good Republican or a good Democrat,

- Gifford Pinchot

topic: Citizens, Republican, Democrat, Good Citizen

If you're a Republican and rich, that's evil. But if you're a Democrat and rich, that's great.

- Greg Gutfeld

topic: Evil, Republican, Rich

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

- H. L. Mencken

topic: Santa, Republican, Santa Claus

Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption,

- Harry Reid

topic: Culture, Republican, Corruption

I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.

- Harry Reid

topic: Heritage, Republican, Hispanic

My Republican friends are lamenting reconciliation. But I would recommend for them to go back and look at history.

- Harry Reid

topic: Looks, Republican, Reconciliation

The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Party, Republican, Republican Party

I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government.

- Heather Wilson

topic: Government, People, Republican

I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.

- Helen Mirren

topic: Roles, Favour, Republican

Of my death, tell them i have done my duty

- Henry Joy McCracken

topic: Done, Republican, Duty

Michele Bachmann... I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it.... Tutti-frutti. I know I'm going to get in trouble!

- Herman Cain

topic: Stupid, Republican, Trouble, Stupid Republican

How do you say 'delicious' in Cuban?

- Herman Cain

topic: Stupid, Republican, Stupid Republican

I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.

- Hillary Clinton

topic: Christian, Mind, Republican, Diabolical

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

- Howard Dean

topic: Country, Hate, Republican, Don't Hate

the Republicans are all about suppressing votes.

- Howard Dean

topic: Vote, Republican, Suppressing

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for.

- Howard Dean

source: "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. May 22, 2005.

topic: Hate, Republican, I Hate

You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called 'swift-boating'.

- Howie Carr

source: "Media loves to hate Sarah Palin" by Howie Carr in Boston Herald, September 7, 2008.

topic: Lying, Politics, Republican

There are just too many Americans grubbing for free stuff and a preponderance of Republicans eager to parcel it out in exchange for power.

- Ilana Mercer

topic: Stuff, Republican, Parcel, Free Stuff

The Democratic and Republican parties each operates as a necessary counterweight in a partnership designed to keep the pendulum of power swinging in perpetuity from the one set of colluding quislings to the other, and back.

- Ilana Mercer

topic: Party, Republican, Partnership, Pendulums

If diversity is O.K. for God, it ought to be O.K. for Republicans.

- J. C. Watts

topic: Diversity, Republican

I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.

- J. C. Watts

topic: Support, Republican, Reason, Gop

The problem we are dealing with at the border is not a Democratic problem. It is not a Republican problem. It is an American problem.

- J. D. Hayworth

topic: Borders, Problem, Republican

Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.

- Jack Abramoff

topic: Want, Way, Republican

I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy.

- Jack Kemp

topic: Sound, Republican, Economic

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

- Jackie Kennedy

topic: Humorous, Republican, Democrat, Anti Conservative

Business, properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed the party of business.

- Jacob K. Javits

topic: Party, Civilization, Republican

Machines are neither Republicans nor Democrats and therefore can never be consciously or even unconsciously biased,

- James Baker

topic: Machines, Republican, Democrat

The british govt has no right in Ireland, never had any right in Ireland ,never can have any right in Ireland

- James Connolly

topic: Republican, British, Ireland

I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.

- James Denton

source: "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

topic: Choices, Vote, Republican

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.

- James Denton

source: "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

topic: Lines, Open Minded, Republican

The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.

- Jane Smiley

topic: Care, Republican, Fear Of Love

What we see happening with this Republican strategy is a willingness to threaten the very foundation of the world's greatest economic power. That is a very risky proposition.

- Jay Carney

source: "Carney: GOP threatens economy" by Tal Kopan, www.politico.com. October 01, 2013.

topic: Foundation, World, Republican, Government Shutdown

In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.

- Jay Gould

topic: Political, Republican, Democratic

I will support the Republican nominee.

- Jeb Bush

topic: Support, Republican

There are some Republicans who say that any time you raise new revenue, you have to have a tax cut to match it. I am not one of those Republicans.

- Jeff Flake

source: "Flake: Past Spending Limits Haven't Worked". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. July 29, 2011.

topic: Cutting, Republican, Taxes

If I am a Republican shill, wouldn't you think I am the least amount of a threat to the president?

- Jeff Gannon

topic: Thinking, President, Republican, Shills

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

- Jeffrey Skoll

topic: Views, Fans, Republican

When you're rich, you want a Republican in office.

- Jenna Jameson

source: "Porn Star Jenna Jameson Endorses Romney As Candidate For Rich In SF". sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com. August 2, 2012.

topic: Office, Want, Republican

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

- Jerome Corsi

topic: Party, Conservative, Republican

Republican attacks are without basis, but when the Democrats attack me they're usually right.

- Jerry Brown

topic: Republican, Democrat, Bases

In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.

- Jerry McNerney

source: "Choose a Grassroots All-Star" by Rep. Jerry McNerney, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 19, 2007.

topic: Republican, Seven, Lost

I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

- Jesse Helms

topic: Wise, Republican, Young, Very Wise

Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.

- Jesse Ventura

topic: Vote, Republican, Democrat

I don't want Democrats in the boardroom and I don't want Republicans in the bedroom.

- Jesse Ventura

topic: Want, Republican, Bedroom

Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

- Jill Lepore

topic: Choices, Republican, Democrat

This Congress is simply not doing its job under Republican leadership.

- Jim Cooper

topic: Jobs, Republican, Congress

What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator.

- Jim DeMint

topic: Common, Republican, Lowest Common Denominator

Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts.

- Jim DeMint

topic: Facts, Republican

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

- Jim Hightower

topic: Political, Republican, Empty, Landfills

The Republicans would like to take us back to a darker time, when corporations ruled and the underserved had no rights.

- Joe Baca

topic: Rights, Corporations, Republican

It is unfortunate we were put in the position where the Republicans made it clear they were ready to let everything fall unless they got these tax cuts .

- Joe Biden

topic: Fall, Cutting, Republican

If I hear one more Republican tell me about balancing the budget, I am going to strangle them.

- Joe Biden

source: "Biden: ‘If I Hear One More Republican Tell Me About Balancing the Budget, I Am Going to Strangle Them’". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2010.

topic: Republican

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

topic: Party, Insightful, Republican

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

- Joe Lando

topic: Republican, Honored

I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.

- Joe Lieberman

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Independent, Defense, Republican, Domestic Policy

It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican.

- Joe Queenan

topic: Dancing, Television, Republican, Exciting Things

My dad took me to John Kennedy's inauguration when I was 8. We come every time, Republican and Democrat, because of this great country.

- John Barrasso

source: "Interviews with Senator John Barrasso & David Plouffe". "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 20, 2013.

topic: Country, Dad, Republican, Great Country, John Kennedy

The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education.

- John Conyers

topic: Needs, Cost, Republican

Say, oh well, the Republicans don't like this therefor I shouldn't do it. What kind of a government would that be. We're not a parliamentary system.

- John Kasich

topic: Government, Kind, Republican, Parliamentary System

The republican party is my vehicle, not my master.

- John Kasich

topic: Party, Republican, Masters, Republican Party

Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.

- John Leguizamo

topic: Latin, Roaches, Republican

I'm neither Republican nor Democrat. I've worked for the past five administrations.

- John O. Brennan

source: Interview with David Gregory, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 3, 2010.

topic: Past, Administration, Republican

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.

- John Paul DeJoria

source: "High Price for Jobs; Obama Getting Ready to Counter; Aurora Victims' Fund". "Erin Burnett OutFront" with Erin Burnett and Anderson Cooper, edition.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

topic: Independent, Would Be, Republican

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

- John Perry Barlow

topic: Mean, Looks, Republican

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.

- John Podhoretz

topic: Thinking, Example, Republican, Predecessors

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

- John Podhoretz

topic: Tactics, Conservative, Republican

The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.

- John Scalzi