Politics Quote by Andrew McCarthy

Our leaders ranged from bad to extraordinary. But through it all, the GOP was the one party even vaguely amenable to limited-government conservatism, to…

— Rick Wilson

“Republican theory clearly stated that the people held all political power, and only they could delegate authority to a government. The people were free…

— James D. Best

The old-school GOP that championed limited government, fiscal restraint, and the defense of the ideals of democracy at home and abroad was far from…

— Jonathan Capehart

“We are superior to government and should remain master over it, not the other way around.”

— Ezra Taft Benson

If, then, the control of the people over the organs of their government be the measure of its republicanism, and I confess I know…

— Thomas Jefferson

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

— Thomas Jefferson

“The problem is that Republicans have purposefully torn down the validating institutions,” says the political journalist Josh Barro, a Republican until 2016. “They have…

— Kurt Andersen

“What you seem so unwilling to accept, even now, is this: that the ideals which supported the old republic had no correspondence to the…

— John Williams

I think this is a moment where Donald Trump recognized the Republican establishment was much weaker, the party leaders were much weaker than they…

— Ben Domenech

One could argue the GOP made no progress on limiting government in their four years of total control from 2002 to 2006. If anything,…

— Chuck Todd

“That the Party did not seek power for its own ends, but only for the good of the majority. That it sought power because…

— George Orwell

“Fortunately, there was government by consent of the governed in America—but just as unfortunately, such governments dearly hate to admit a mistake.”

— T. R. Fehrenbach