2012 Quote by John Barnes

“If tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the altar of caution and we have…

— Zohran Mamdani

“The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of…

— Alexander Hamilton

The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“Not every poor or unemployed person who has one wears a political party’s t-shirt to reveal their political affiliation; some use it merely to…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A Republican primary race that has for months alternated between spectacle and abomination has over the past 20th hours ignited into a raging, full-blown…

— Chris Hayes

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is,…

— Adlai E. Stevenson

“If Republicans care about the Constitution, they have to find the courage to say no or lose their constituencies and ultimately their cause. They…

— David Horowitz

I joked at our National Convention that our party was nominating a candidate for president who was charismatic, larger than life, memorable, so they…

— Mike Pence

I have long bemoaned the fact that Republicans have successfully portrayed themselves as the party of service and love of country with bunk arguments…

— Jessica Tarlov

“The Republicrats, with the help of their complicit corporate-owned media, have relentlessly worked to convince the American public that a vote for a third-party…

— Joseph Befumo

I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think…

— Harold Ford, Jr

“the moment a politician removes his shirt, his policies are dead in the water. All he will say is, “Look, my dear fellow countrymen,…

— Timur Vermes