20th century Quote by John Aldrich

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

“Let’s face it: The Republican Party is no longer a broad-based conservative party in the historically accepted sense. It is an oligarchy with a…

— Mike Lofgren

After World War II the Republicans - the Wall Street crowd - were very worried about a depression coming back. They hated Franklin Roosevelt…

— Oliver Stone

Republican Party is the party that stands for the people who are trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their…

— Marco Rubio

Before Donald Trump, the Republican Party was a majority conservative party with a white nationalist fringe. Now it's a white nationalist party with a…

— Max Boot

I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy.

— Bob Herbert

Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.

— Bernie Sanders

The Republican majority, left to its own devices from 1995 to 2000, was a party committed to limited government and restoring the balances of…

— Mike Pence

For a generation, Republicans have tried to unravel the activist government under which Americans have lived since the 1930s, when Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt…

— Heather Cox Richardson

I don't even think the biggest divide is between Republicans and Democrats. I think it's between institutionalists and reformers.

— Matt Gaetz

The Republican Party and the conservative free market movement have been presidentially focused for too long.

— Grover Norquist

Traditional Republicanism grew up in the 1850s as opposed to the Democrats, who always saw the world kind of as a 'us vs. them'…

— Heather Cox Richardson