quotations about Republicans
I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
letter to men from Petersburg, Virginia, August 15, 1888
The Republicans ... are having a hard time getting their members to act as a unit instead of like a bunch of six-year-olds playing anarchist soccer; three teams, two goals, you decide.
RACHEL MADDOW
The Rachel Maddow Show, February 16, 2011
The Republicans appear to have a very clear plan for America. They articulated it throughout the convention. No. 1, jail your political opponent. No. 2, inject Rudy Giuliani with a speedball and a Red Bull enema. And then No. 3, spend the rest of the time scaring the holy bejesus out of everybody.
JON STEWART
comments following the Republican National Convention, The Late Show, July 21, 2016
A new survey has Rick Perry ahead of Mitt Romney by 11 points, and Michele Bachmann is five points behind him. I think it's going to come down to who wears the most flag pins.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Jimmy Kimmel Live!, August 17, 2011
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.
HARRY TRUMAN
Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53
I was always raised to think that Republicans were about limited government, about individual liberty, about fiscal responsibility, about balanced budgets, about a wariness of military adventures abroad, about responsible encouragement to business. There's a whole list of things I thought the Republican Party was all about, and these guys that presently occupy the White House, are categorically against every single one of those things. So if they're Republicans, I'm not.
JOHN PERRY BARLOW
"John Perry Barlow: Wyoming's Estimated Prophet", Planet J. H. Weekly, July 28, 2005
If the Republican Party shall fail to carry out this purpose, God will raise up another party that will be faithful.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass: Reconstruction and After
We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.
P. J. O'ROURKE
Parliament of Whores
I see the signs of the approaching triumph of the Republicans in the bearing of their political adversaries. A great deal of their war with us nowadays is mere bushwhacking.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
speech at New Haven, Connecticut, March 6, 1860
The Republicans, with their crazed Reagan fixation, are a last-gasp party, living posthumously, fighting battles on sex, race, immigration and public education long ago won by the other side. They're trying to roll back the clock, but time is passing them by.
MAUREEN DOWD
"Ghastly Outdated Party", New York Times, February 25, 2012
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. MENCKEN
A Mencken Chrestomathy
The Republicans always looked bad three years out of four. But the year they look good is election year. A voter don't expect much. If you give him one good year he is satisfied.
WILL ROGERS
Never Met a Man I Didn't Like
It's not easy to be a young, black Republican. Friends and family often give them the side eye, and some people who don't know them at all consider them to be 'traitors'. They also don't have the same access to a tightly interwoven network of professional contacts and connections as their counterparts in the Democratic Party, which the vast majority of African-American elected officials is affiliated. So, what's the attraction? For many it's a combination of history and good old-fashioned conservative values. The GOP, they argue, is the party that emancipated blacks from slavery, gave them the right to vote and provided other opportunities toward independence.
JOYCE JONES
"The Loneliness of the Black Republican: What Attracts young African-Americans to the GOP?", BET, December 10, 2013
Politically, Republicans and Democrats are at opposite ends. One's a burp and the other's a fart.
JAROD KINTZ
If you bring the booze and food, I'll bring the thirst and hunger
Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON
attributed, Living History
The Republicans' health care plan consists of "Just say 'no' to sickness."
KEVIN POLLACK
attributed, The Snark Handbook: Politics and Government Edition
It's simple, really: If you want more bombing, more killing, more war, more torture, more police, more walls and lower taxes on corporations ... vote Republican in November.
WILLIAM ASTORE
"The Republicans Are Scaring Me Again", Huffington Post, February 7, 2016
Latinos for Republicans -- it's like roaches for Raid.
JOHN LEGUIZAMO
attributed, The Snark Handbook: Politics and Government Edition
This gallant old party, this gallant old ship.
JOHN LOGAN
Republican: A Monthly Magazine, 1873
Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.
ANDY ROONEY
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