Thomas Friedman Quotes

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

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

Newt Gingrich developed a whole vocabulary of polarization in order to get Republican candidates elected.

These days everything is discussed in terms of political partisan perspective including the weather—especially the weather.

We're movers, forward thinkers, people who get things done. But the Tea Party and Republicans like Bob Dold are holding us back.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.

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.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

Dave Camp has been very much influenced by, and often guided by, the radicalization of the Republican Party... and too often failed to speak out.

The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.

Republicans, say Democrats, are too simplistic about what ails America, and their solutions are straight out of 'J.A.G.'

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

The myopic obsession of the Tea Party with destroying health care reform and wounding the president has led Republicans astray.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

The Republican Party is in charge. They've been charge of the Congress and spending for 10 years.

We see political leaders replacing moral imperatives with a Southern strategy.

As a partisan Republican, I am concerned by the fact that the John Birch Society has picked my party ... as a vehicle to promulgate its monolithic philosophy. There are three organizations in this country which give me grave doubts as a citizen: the Communist Party, the Ku Klux Klan, and the John Birch Society.

When you are working a Republican crowd, and want to throw out some red meat, you can’t do any better than jumping on Ted Kennedy.

Because, Bill, I think we’ve given the South away to the Republican party for as long as anyone can foresee.

By catering ever more abjectly to the noisy, reactionary extremists of our party who are determined to impose their sectarian views and morality on the rest of us, the GOP’s vulnerability among moderate voters, particularly women, continues to intensify.