Mara Liasson Quotes

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

It is hard to imagine a choice more stark than the choice between Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party, a clear establishment figure, and Stephen Bannon, a leader of the right-wing, the guy - Breitbart News Network, somebody who spent most of the time beating up on the Republican establishment.

I don't fit into the traditional Republican box that the wingnuts who have hijacked my party think all Republicans should.

Donald Trump needs to understand the Republican establishment - they're not going to be his friend, either.

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.

The Democrats never fight about who is more like Jimmy Carter.

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

Republicans, Weed Out Your Progressives

The party of Kennedy is also the party of Eastland. The party of Javits is also the party of Goldwater.

Of course he's going to work with Paul Ryan; of course he's tried to bridge the party together with Paul Ryan, but Ryan is also running against somebody who's not going to win but nonetheless is a strong supporter of Mr. Trump's.

After helping the Republican National Committee address some of the troubling deficiencies the party faced after 2012, as outlined in its so-called autopsy report, and witnessing some real progress in our outreach to women in the ensuing years, I did not expect an egomaniacal arsonist to come along and set all that ablaze.

Donald Trump is the least unpopular thing about today's Republican Party. I mean, the idea that a Mitch McConnell or a Paul Ryan could say, "Let's toss Trump overboard and return to our program of plutocratic politics, health care removal, massive income tax cuts for the affluent, deregulation of finance" - if they cut loose from Donald Trump, it's like, you know, storm in channel, continent cut off. If they cut loose from him, they are much likelier to sink.

It looks like they [the Republicans] don't want to win if it means winning with [Donald] Trump. They must really hate Trump out there.

It's going to be Perry, it's going to be Romney...It's sort of a battle for the soul of the Republican Party - and they have no soul, but the space where a soul would be.

If Nixon were a Republican senator today, he would have been primaried out.

The establishment Republicans are beginning to say on the record what they had been whispering about in private for months: that Donald Trump at the top of the ticket could mean an electoral wipeout down the ballot.

Paul Ryan has been part of the Never-Trump group.

Anybody who doesn't support the Republican nominee... is a RINO.

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.

Carlos Beruff supported Charlie Crist after he left the Republican Party. Does that should like someone who is a conservative Republican?

I think the Republican Party is lost in terms of whether we should be stronger on the social issues or ignore the social issues. But I think the Rand Pauls, the Ted Cruzes, that's the future of the 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've never been a fan of party politics.

Arkansas is a very small state, and it's even a smaller field when you break it down to Republicans in this state.

The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now.