Doug Ducey Quotes

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

The cleavages Trump has revealed are too deep

The reality is that the Republican Party may have unified government but is not unified enough on many major signature policy areas.

You can't work across party lines when there aren't many of them. So I'm going to work across Republican Party lines because there are a lot of divisions in the Republican Party.

If there is one good thing I can say about the Republicans, it is that they are generally better than Democrats at putting the interests of their party above the interests of any one of its members.

I still subscribe to the theory that Ronald Reagan once pronounced: that I will never speak ill will of my fellow Republican.

So what if I don't agree with the Democrats? What's to disagree with? They believe everything. And what they don't believe, the Republicans do. Neither of them stands for anything they believe in, anyway.

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

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

Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

Republicans always try to paint Democrats as weak on defense. This time, they can't. After all, Mitt Romney's idea of an overseas accomplishment is sending U.S. jobs there.

I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want to be in the same city - forget the same stage - with President Obama.

While 2013 will not see a major national election, we can be sure that most Republicans will obstruct and some Democrats will appease.

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side.

Our citizens never hesitate to take sides against one another, whether it's Democrats versus Republicans, Coke drinkers opposed to Pepsi enthusiasts or Yankee loyalists against Red Sox aficionados.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.

Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.

Republicans tend to be grumpy old men.

When party crackups happen, they usually involve nativism.

Have we come to the point where the Democratic Party needs a Republican President?

Conservative politics are not an a la carte menu.