Gary Bauer Quotes

Republicans have never been good at public relations.

The Democrats have always been known as the party that's negative and look at everything wrong.

[Is the Conservative Party still the Nasty Party?] I said it was perceived as the Nasty Party. And is it? I don't think that it's a phrase that people today would apply to the Party. I think that the perception of the Party has changed.

A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

You know, there were 29 Democratic votes for censure in the Senate. And if the Republicans had any sense, they would have censured him before the '98 midterm election, and they would have won the election.

While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.

Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.

I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

The Republicans insisted on 60 days to review this deal but most of them made up their mind in less than 5 minutes.

You can’ t be a national party in America and be perceived as an anti-immigration party.

The Republican brand is in the trash can. If we were dog food, they would take us off the shelf.

I guess the Democrats have to pretend to be more pious than the Republicans because they are under suspicion of not being.

I think we, the Republicans, have been mistyped as unfriendly to minorities and not receptive to minority views.

Maybe this is my left-wing conspiracy theory, but the right has re-branded itself as kind of the everyman party: Who's the person you'd rather have a beer with? The Republican Party, even though it's a party of incredible wealth and corporate interests, has hidden behind this everyman quality.

As a Republican, I believe it's unfortunate that a perception still exists in the minds of some Americans that the GOP condones racism.

Hillary Clinton's negatives are higher than any Democrat who has ever been elected, ever run.

I do think that the Republican Party is in a crisis right now, a crisis of confidence about who we are.

As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.

How does conservatism find its way into the body politic? I think most people actually live their lives that way, but they have been poisoned into not voting that way because the brand - conservatism brand, Republican brand - has been summarily destroyed over the years.

Perception is everything and that becomes the reality. It's a big problem for Hillary Clinton.

I think is interesting is that term is so pejorative or understood to be so pejorative and there's a real difference between how Republicans, it seems to me, think of that and how Democrats do. I don't think Democrats feel as negatively about the Democratic Party establishment as Republicans do feel about their party's establishment.

I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.

The Republican Party among the public is a minority party.

As much as we admire all the characteristics of a Ronald Reagan, as soon as something goes wrong, people will hate those same characteristics.