Democracy Quote by Jonathan Capehart

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

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

— Candace Wheeler

Before the GOP became the party of Trump's gangster capitalism, they weren't perfect capitalists, but they at least paid lip service to the power…

— Rick Wilson

“And the great Liberal party which in 1882 was vigorous, united, supreme, is shrunk to a few discordant factions of discredited faddists, without numbers,…

— Randolph S. Churchill

One thing is certain: those who worked and voted for less government, the very foot soldiers in the conservative revolution, have been deceived. Today,…

— Ron Paul

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

I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but…

— Rand Paul

In the 1950s and '60s the [democrat] party included many obviously earnest and thoughtful liberals who supported goals that were in line with and…

— Peggy Noonan

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

When our country needed them most, the old, ideologically grounded political parties failed it.

— Heidi Allen

Growing up in the 1980s, I remember when the GOP was the party of ideas. Now it's brain dead.

— Max Boot

The real problem with the Republican Party is that for decades it has shifted constantly to the right politically. Consequently, the Republican Party is…

— Richard Painter