#cans

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise. ↗

— Charlie Crist

#allergic #beholden #billionaires #bullies #compromise

I am perfectly happy to compromise and work with anybody: Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians - I'll work with Martians if - and the if is critical - they're willing to cut spending and reduce the debt. ↗

— Ted Cruz

#anybody #compromise #critical #cut #debt

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory. ↗

— Mario Cuomo

#charging #few #few things #glory #greater

I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try. ↗

— Bob Dole

#congress #democrats #done #everything #get

My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage. ↗

— Sheila Jackson Lee

#fellow #fellow americans #friends #hall #meetings

The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment’s reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#authors #british #humor #business

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process. ↗

— Barney Frank

#delay #ethics #mr #process #republicans

A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough. ↗

— Al From

#doubt #govern #people #republicans #show

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest. ↗

— Martin Frost

#believed #challenging #i #republicans #strongest

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity. ↗