#republic

Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat. ↗

— Rick Perry

#budget #child #combat #consensus #cooperation

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ↗

— Wendell Phillips

#debt #disease #fatal #first #first thing

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat. ↗

— T. Boone Pickens

#face #family #go #heaven #i

Well, I would never admit to copying Karl Rove's play book, but there's no doubt that what the Bush people did in 2004 was impressive. They had neighbors talking to neighbors. They did a remarkable job increasing Republican turnout in states like Ohio and Florida. ↗

— David Plouffe

#book #bush #copying #did #doubt

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. ↗

— Plutarch

#between #fatal #imbalance #most #oldest

I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress. ↗

— John Podesta

#democrats #even #faith #i #i think

For Obama to save himself, he should be thinking about the example of an unlikely Republican predecessor: Richard Nixon. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#example #himself #nixon #obama #predecessor

As the Republican nominee, it was Romney's job to find a way to speak to some of those groups of voters and offer practical solutions to their difficulties that both resonated with them and sounded plausible to them. ↗

— John Podhoretz

#difficulties #find #groups #job #nominee

You 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 Powell

#agenda #american #american people #believe #catchy

I consider myself a moderate Republican. I have very, very moderate social views, and I'm pretty strong on, on defense matters. ↗

— Colin Powell

#defense #i #matters #moderate #myself