Equality Quote by Heather Cox Richardson

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

— Jack Kemp

From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to…

— George Nethercutt

What I have been talking about for many years is opportunity conservatism, that every policy should focus like a laser on easing the means…

— Ted Cruz

Republicans turned against organized workers and abandoned the idea of promoting equality at the bottom of the economic scale. They turned their idea of…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Since the 1950s, Movement Conservatives have fought the fair examination of their ideas. They embrace a worldview in which a few wealthy men control…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Many Americans, but Republicans in particular, long opposed the nationalization of industry and state-controlled companies that are more common in Europe. Instead, they were…

— Anne Applebaum

In contrast to them, Republicans argue, are minorities, organized workers, and women, who demand government policies that can only be paid for with tax…

— Heather Cox Richardson

Everything Republicans once claimed to advocate - entitlement reform, free trade, standing up to dictators, encouraging the march of freedom around the world -…

— Bret Stephens

Republicans were more pro-choice than Democrats up until the late 1980s.

— Jill Lepore

Only a few years after building a federal system that cleared the way for equal opportunity, Republicans faced a racist and xenophobic backlash against…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“The split has widened because the right has moved right, not because the left has moved left. Republican presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and Ford all…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

“During the previous eight years of Republican rule, this conservative corporate elite had consolidated its power, amassing enormous sway over the U.S. government’s regulatory…

— Jane Mayer