If you're black in this country, if you're a woman in this country, if you are any minority in this country at all, what could possibly possess you to vote Republican?
The fact of the matter is it's very reasonable to ask the wealthiest estates to pay their share. We did that since Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican president.
Republicans have called for a National African-American Museum. The plan is being held up by finding a location that isn't in their neighborhood.
I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters.
We've had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won't meet with the Republicans. It's all his way.
I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States.
What does it mean to have a Republican majority in the House? A lot of people think 'So what?' They should think again.
Clinton knew how to get things done. He was battling the Republicans, and then he basically took a lot of their agenda and made it his own. That's what Obama's not doing.
Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.
We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.
Undoubtedly, the biggest misconception about me is that I'm some staunch conservative, blind, rightwing hardcore Republican who doesn't want to hear anything from the other side.
Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the challenges of America.
I don't know a single Republican in Montana who would get in a fight in a bowling alley for John McCain.
I've always avoided expressing an opinion about where I think the republican movement should go - if it should go anywhere at all.
Too many people try to please their parents. My parents were Republicans, which is too bad, but they allowed me to be who I wanted to be.
The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.
When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.
The combination of Federalism and Republicanism which formed the substance of the system, did not constitute a progressive and formative political principle, but it pointed in the direction of a constructive formula.
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
There's no light at the end of the tunnel in the Republican message, no promise of better things to come. There's only the present stagnation, followed by a slow decline.
Congressional Republicans themselves have vehemently defended the idea that preexisting conditions should not be used to deny people insurance.
