#republic

The tea partiers are a great addition. The tea partiers have invigorated a base that has been dormant for a long period of time. We're going to have a broad array of different views in our Republican conference, and I think it might be more interesting than any I've been in in a long time. ↗

— John McCain

#any #array #base #been #broad

But I came from a conservative Republican background. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#came #conservative #i #i came #republican

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#country #decided #dozen #even #i

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#any #appear #compromise #hang #i

Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that's only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#being #bunch #campaigning #convention #corps

Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account. ↗

— Susana Martinez

#always #analysis #engage #into #republicans

I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life. ↗

— Dennis Miller

#been #both #dad #democrats #early

The federal debt in this country is principally of Republican design. ↗

— Daniel Keys Moran

#debt #design #federal #principally #republican

The president of the Arab Republic of Egypt is the commander of the armed forces, full stop. ↗

— Mohammed Morsi

#armed #armed forces #commander #egypt #forces

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

#events #ever #leading #modern #modern times