Bad Quote by Rick Wilson

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

My allegiance to the GOP was cemented during the 1980s, when I was in high school and college and Ronald Reagan was in the…

— Max Boot

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

— Candace Wheeler

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

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off…

— Joe Wurzelbacher

The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.

— Pat Buchanan

When you put party over principles, you can't avoid tripping over your own hypocrisy and contradictions eventually. The GOP establishment refused to stand up…

— Garry Kasparov

“The GOP had better get past its angst—either that or be prepared to accept a government that is more a centralized dictatorship than a…

— Andrew McCarthy

And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might…

— Sharron Angle

Republicans - Reagan but also George W. Bush - believed in freedom, and they believed in America's role. To have the governing party speak…

— Daniel Fried

Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today.

— Anonymous

“As the nation divided into Federalists and Republicans, each group called the other the worst name possible: "party". Most Americans feared the idea of…

— R.B. Bernstein