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The Republican Party has become overwhelmingly so extreme that it’s hardly a traditional political party anymore.
Noam ChomskyIt’s time to stop thinking of the Republican Party as an exclusive club where your ideological card is checked at the door, and start thinking about how we can attract more solution-based leaders like Nathan Fletcher and Anthony Adams.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIt is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I’m a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can’t be too small to suit me.
Lyndon B. JohnsonWe all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.
Barack ObamaI am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.
Dan QuayleIn the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.
Colin PowellLet me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton.
Dan QuayleThe 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it’s been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will RogersThere’s no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.
Jimmy CarterIn 2008, I spoke out against calling the president a Muslim as if that was a curse. And then in 2012, once again, I was very disturbed about some of the intolerance I was seeing in the party, so I made a statement saying there’s a level of intolerance in some parts of the Republican Party. And there was, and I think there still is.
Colin PowellYou can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.
Colin PowellThere’s no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there’s been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I’ve always believed in the separation of church and state.
Jimmy CarterI became a Republican in 1951, the first year I could vote.
Clint EastwoodA leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. TrumanBarack Obama is probably the most exciting candidate that either the Democratic or Republican party has produced at least since I’ve been around. He’s fresh, he’s new, he’s insightful.
Joe BidenDuring my life, I have had a few nightmares which happened to me while I was wide awake. One of them was the National Republican Convention in San Francisco, which produced the greatest disaster the Republican Party has ever known – Nominee Barry Goldwater.
Jackie RobinsonThe New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.
Herbert Hoover