Maxine Waters Quotes

While Trump keeps the spotlight on himself, the "respectable" Republican establishment chips away at government programs that benefit the general population.

The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction.

I'm a Republican. I may go into politics myself.

I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans.

Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who has a job some Republican wants.

Every bad thing that happens has a ready-made solution in the form of a new government program, tax or regulation.

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.

I do politics in order to do policy.

Ford O'Connell, the guy in the sound bite we just played, he's the guy who said that nominating a conservative presidential candidate would just postpone the GOP nightmare.

The stuff that I propose are things that I'm ready to govern with. They're not tools to get elected. They are programs and plans to do when you get elected.

The Republicans initially sort of saw George W. Bush as a blank canvas, didn't they? It seems like they interviewed him when he was governor of Texas to see what kind of candidate he could be.

[The Democrats] can't stop [Donald] Trump. They are in the exact position that the Republicans were in in 2009 and 2010 with [Barack] Obama.

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

I think most Republicans would rather win this election than have transformation.

There is no evidence that government under Republicans will shrink. It's simply a question of what the government will do and who will benefit.

It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership.

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

I do not believe that anything like what Donald Trump just proposed is going to get through Congress. Those deductions have a lot of defenders. The idea that they're going to completely explode the deficit is just a party killer for the Republican parties.

I think the Republican Party is cursed. And it's cursed itself.

The Republicans proved they are not the party of 'no.' They're the party of 'f**k, no!'

Democrats have become very good at electing very bad Republicans

The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.

The Republican Party among the public is a minority party.