And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.
I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
In 2004, I ran for Congress and lost. In 2006, I ran again and won - defeating Richard Pombo, a seven-term Republican incumbent.
We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.
For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon.
Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
Iraq's elite Republican Guard is doing so badly they're changing their name to the Democratic Guard.
We aren't as divided as we think we are. We're not just Republicans sitting in one corner, and Democrats sitting in the other corner.
Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.
Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.
There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.
The Democrats have invested a lot of time in telling struggling Americans that Republicans or anyone who doesn't agree with their agenda doesn't care about people who are struggling.
I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.
But if republicans are to prevail, if the peace process is to be successfully concluded and Irish sovereignty and re-unification secured, then we have to set the agenda - no-one else is going to do that.
By their own admission, leaders of the Republican Revolution of 1994 think their greatest mistake was overlooking the power of the veto. They gave the impression they were somehow in charge when they weren't.
There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.
My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.
