#republic

My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country. ↗

— Francois Hollande

#beyond #bringing #change #chosen #citizens

The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#existing #form #government #highest #highest form

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#day #forward #i #i can #look

Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. "I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves," he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#care #down #i #implying #knocking

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism. ↗

— August Bebel

#atheism #called #domain #economics #politics

I think every American has a role in saving this country. Whether you're Democrat, Republican, independent, it doesn't matter. We all know the country's in trouble. We may disagree on how to solve it, but we all know the country's in trouble. ↗

— Glenn Beck

#country #democrat #disagree #every #how

I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas. ↗

— Chris Bell

#because #complaint #congressional #corruption #delay

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#boy #boy scout #campfire #encourage #faithful

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both. ↗

— Brian Celio

#democrat #democrats #full #government #oppose

Republicans went off track. We were spending too much money. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#much #off #republicans #spending #too