#republic

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#letters #like #little #most #nation

My Republican colleagues say, Let's do the cuts first. The Democrats say, Let's do spending first. I'd like to do both simultaneously. ↗

— Scott Rigell

#colleagues #cuts #democrats #first #i

It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards. ↗

— Alice Rivlin

#big #campaign #certainly #connotations #contributors

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party. ↗

— Pat Robertson

#democratic #democratic party #far #i #i think

Republicans absolutely support equal pay for equal work. ↗

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#equal #equal pay #equal work #pay #republicans

It'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 Schwarzenegger

#adams #anthony #attract #card #checked

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#crabgrass #democrats #elected #get #government

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets. ↗

— Michelle Obama

#always #barack #best #care #country

Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity. ↗

— Keith Olbermann

#care #divinity #everything #five #get

Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversight responsibilities and with pursuing a principled course of action even in the face of everyone's short-attention spans. ↗

— Barbara Olson

#attention spans #carrying #course #credit #even