A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
Every Republican president starting with Lincoln - and for almost 100 years thereafter - generally supported tariffs, while Democrats tended to promote… — Robert Lighthizer Copy Share Image
Since 1980, we've used reconciliation 22 times, and out of those times, Republicans used it 16 times. So, earth to my Republican… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
Scaling back the campaign finance reform bill may get more Republicans aboard, but it leaves many of us who have been involved… — Robert Torricelli Copy Share Image
The Democratic Party has become the party of the coastal elite, and the Republican Party is the party of the working class… — Ronna McDaniel Copy Share Image
When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Abraham Lincoln and others recoiled from the idea of government as a prop for the rich. In organizing the Republican Party, they… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
When I first arrived to Congress in 1975, I would spend several hours every week with Republicans - having lunch, drinking a… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
Two-thirds of the Iranian people would like to be reconciled with the West. They don't like the fanaticism of the governing religious… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
It's not a secret that Ted Cruz isn't my first choice for the Republican nomination for president. His smug Poindexter affect, his… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
You know that Republicans will yell about the evils of partisanship whenever anyone tries to make a connection between the rhetoric of… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
I am a Republican because I believe in the constitution, strength in national defense, limited government, individual freedom, and personal responsibility as… — Martha Raye Copy Share Image
Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
The widespread distribution of private property ownership is the cornerstone of American liberty. Without it, neither our free enterprise system nor our… — Jeffrey H Reiman Copy Share Image
We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
One of the problems with evangelicalism is that it has allowed itself to be married to the Republican party... Jesus is not… — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
Mt. Rushmore was conceived in 1923 in a desperate attempt to draw tourist dollars to a state that had been rushed into… — Heather Cox Richardson Copy Share Image
The difference in this town - here in Washington - on the war is not between Democrats and Republicans; it's between people… — Joe Lieberman Copy Share Image
They [Democrats and Republicans] agree with each other on either doing nothing or giving lip service to climate change and the really… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
We cannot allow our Republican party to be based on what Olympia Snowe and Ben Nelson or Blanche Lincoln may or may… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Republican lawmakers unwilling or unable to win blacks, Latinos, Asian Americans, and other groups have used the leeway of Shelby County to… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to… — Jack Abramoff Copy Share Image
Democrats are dumb and Republicans are stupid, but the difference between dumb and stupid is dumb isn't funny. Dumb is when you… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
The CBO is part of an intricate web that has been woven that is designed to be an obstacle to Republican ideas… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The big story is Bruce Jenner. In last week's interview, Jenner said he's a woman who is transitioning his body from male… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
There is only one thing that gives me hope as a Republican, and that is the Democrats. It's going to be hard… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Herman Cain told a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters to go home, get a job, and get a life. That's the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I want to make sure every House Republican is protected from some kind of dishonest Democratic ad. So let me say on… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
[America has to import so many workers because] for the last 35 years we have aborted more than a million people who… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I am still a Democrat. The main reason is because I don't like the Republican stance on some social values. Not that… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
The Tea Party thing is only apt in some ways. The activism in the town halls, that looks superficially like it. But… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The reason I like the criminal justice system is there aren't Republican or Democrat victims or police officers or prosecutors. It's about… — Trey Gowdy Copy Share Image
The Republican Party, which John McCain led as our nominee in 2008, is going to become irrelevant if we become the party… — Ed Rollins Copy Share Image
I am shocked that Republicans can't explain why our technological and economic advantages are the result of sound monetary and economic policy. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image