quotations about Republicans
If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.
BILL CLINTON
My Life
What's amazing is that the conservative movement since the Reagan era has been telling conservatives that government is the problem, which makes experience running government a mark on your record. Having constructive ideas about what government could do makes you a suspicious character. Honestly, the very idea that you would thirst to hold high government office in Washington, D.C. almost inherently disqualifies you as a Republican. So everybody is qualified, and therefore you pick the person who most entertains you. It's a weird thing.
RACHEL MADDOW
interview, Playboy, March 1, 2016
I will admit it has rained more under Republican administrations, that was partially because they have had more administrations than Democrats. There is no less sickness, no less earthquakes, no less progress, no less inventions, no less morality, no less Christianity under one than the other. They are all the same. It won't make 50 cents difference to a one of you. Unless you're foolish enough to bet on it.
WILL ROGERS
Never Met a Man I Didn't Like
A fanatical neo-fascist political cult of right-wingers in the GOP, driven by a strange mixture of corrosive hatred and sickening fear that is recklessly determined to control our party or destroy it!
THOMAS KUCHEL
attributed, Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party
Republicans are so empty headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.
JIM HIGHTOWER
attributed, The Snark Handbook: Politics and Government Edition
How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.
WILL DURST
attributed, 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
In the old days, the Republican ego had control of the party's id. The id, sometimes described as a galloping horse or crying baby, "the dark, inaccessible part of our personality ... chaos, a cauldron full of seething excitations," as Freud called it, was whipped up obliquely by candidates. Nixon had his Southern strategy of using race as a wedge, Bush Senior and Lee Atwater used the Willie Horton attack, and W. and Karl Rove conjured the gay marriage bogyman. Once elected, those presidents curbed the id with the ego, common sense and reason. But now the G.O.P.'s id is unbridled. The horse has thrown the rider; the dark forces are bubbling.
MAUREEN DOWD
"G.O.P. Greek Tragedy", New York Times, February 28, 2012
I am a Republican. However, the Republican Party has lost its way. Those who either believe in or are afraid to take a stance against exorbitant government spending as a way to solve our nations problems have hijacked the Republican Party. The Republican Party is now controlled by the religious right who refuse to support a Republican candidate who believes that it is not the place of the government to interfere with its citizen's personal choices.
JOE HEUER
"Mission Statement", Reforming the Republican Party, January 31, 2015
For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy -- a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.
PAUL KRUGMAN
"Severe Conservative Syndrome", New York Times, February 12, 2012
Republican comes in the dictionary just after Reptile and just above Repugnant.
JULIA ROBERTS
statement as celebrity emcee at New York fundraising gala for Al Gore, September 14, 2000
The Republican Party should take a very hard look at its past, and it should embrace that past.
JOHN NICHOLS
"When Republicans Really Were the Party of Lincoln", The Nation, July 2, 2014
I think Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we've had in a while.
ALAN GREENSPAN
Meet the Press, September 23, 2007
Republicanism is the religion of a nation; it creates imperial commonwealths out of desert wastes. These 'imperial commonwealths' constitute the foremost nation of the earth, the American republic. It leads them all in public school systems, home comforts, multiplicity of labor-saving machinery, public service, perfect autonomy of government for local communities, modes of travel, engines of general intelligence, public caravansaries, means of adjudicating disputes between man and man, freedom of thought, religion, press and speech, and in the utmost freedom of action in individuals consistent with good order and the rights of others, without the slightest government restraint or espionage.
FRANK ABIAL FLOWER
History of the Republican Party: Embracing Its Origin, Growth and Mission
I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back [to life] during a Republican administration.
TIMOTHY LEARY
attributed, The Nastiest Things Ever Said About Republicans
As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy.
H. P. LOVECRAFT
letter to C. L. Moore, August 1936
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 get elected and prove it.
P.J. O'ROURKE
Holidays in Hell
The spirit of the Republican Party does not know white man or black man. All stand equal before it, as they should stand equal before the law.
JOHN LANGSTON
speech, January 16, 1891
Empathy is a foreign country to Republicans.
JULIAN ROGAN
user comment, "Jesus Reads Quotes From Republican Candidates On 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'", Huffington Post, February 4, 2016
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends ... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
ADLAI STEVENSON
speech, September 10, 1952
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