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Quotes About Republicans

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
~ George McGovern
Well, I'm like most Americans, we don't vote by party, we both by the person because a person is bigger than the party, which is why sometimes the Democrats get in and sometimes the Republicans get in.
~ Gene Simmons
One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
~ J. C. Watts
I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.
~ Harold Ford, Jr.
Obama's coalition would have consigned him to the political margins as little as 12 years ago, but the nation's demographic changes are moving far more quickly than most Republicans anticipated.
~ John Podhoretz
The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape.
~ Joy Behar
Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.
~ Juan Williams
All of Obama's policies are working against economic growth, not for it, and Republicans ought to be talking about it and they're not. We need to take a stand.
~ Richard Mourdock
Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.
~ James Surowiecki
Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person.
~ Estelle
So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.
~ Joe Dante
The Republicans want to turn Medicare into a voucher plan that will end guaranteed coverage of medical bills for the elderly.
~ Juan Williams
I want to have a good vote in the Senate so we send the message that the Republicans and the Democrats are together in favor of immigration reform.
~ Bob Menendez
You know, Republicans should have a consistent philosophy. And if your philosophy is about limited government and not intruding in people's lives, you shouldn't just inconveniently take a social issue like gay marriage and say, 'Well, unless we think - actually we should be intruding your life.'
~ Mark McKinnon
Republicans constantly claim to be the party that defends the Constitution. We have no legitimate right to that claim until we get right on gay rights.
~ Mark McKinnon
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
~ Helen Fisher
Democrats should be focused on which way we can help the most people in this country, and Republicans should be focused on how to do that in the most fiscally responsible manner possible.
~ Lewis Black
Republicans profess to be against deficits, but they are experts at creating and exacerbating deficits.
~ Keith Ellison
Republicans have come up to me to say, 'Hey listen. My knee hurts. What do you think I should do?' I'll give them my recommendations.
~ Raúl Ruiz
Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.
~ Henry Rollins
The Republicans here in Concord and down in Washington D.C. would have us believe that the War on Women is a phony war. Michele Bachmann and Fox News would have us believe that the whole thing is 'political fiction.'
~ Ann McLane Kuster
With the likely nominations of Barack Obama by the Democrats and John McCain by the Republicans, one of these two parties is headed for a 2009 crack-up that could prove as messy as any party civil war in recent history.
~ Chuck Todd
Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.
~ Timothy Noah