I know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she'd be a good president. But she'd put me under a great conflict of interest if she were a candidate because I intend to support the Republicans.
We know better than to think that Republicans can win only on the failures of Democrats. It still comes down to a contest of ideas, which is really good news, ladies and gentlemen, because when it's about ideas, the advantage goes to us. Against their dreary backdrop of arrogant bureaucracies, pointless mandates, reckless borrowing, willful retreat from the world and all that progressives have in store for us, the Republican Party stands as a great enduring alternative party.
Senator Arlen Specter hasn't really switched parties; he's simply realized he cannot win the Pennsylvania Republican primary election
I believe that all people are deserving of equal dignity and also equal protection. I also believe in science. And those are three things the Republican party platform doesn't believe in.
Being the Republican front-runner was three of the most exciting hours of my entire life. I've come to grips with it, and the only lasting effect is that I refuse to go on a stage that has more than one podium on it.
I'm just saying, there may be ways unlocking this deadlock here in the way the media covers people, Republicans and Democrats, and there may be a way for Republican to change it around. Trump may be showing how it's done, but I run great risks in saying that.
Someone in Ireland asked me how many Republican poets there were in the U. S. , and I thought maybe two. Maybe there are 10,000 poets, and maybe there are two Republicans among them.
I don't care if you're Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal, getting crucified for the way you think or believe, obviously if it's not hurting anyone, it's just Un-American.
[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-election campaign in California and became part of his administration at the start of his second term.
Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse-and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
The media has a formula, they have a blueprint for destroying Republican political officials they don't like. It's not gonna work on Trump. He doesn't fit that mold.
I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.
I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can't even find one.
I don't know how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican.
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
[Republicans] swapped principle for power. They ended up with neither. They deserved to lose.
I am a temperance Republican down to my toes.
It's one of the reasons [Vladimir Putin invitation to U. S] why 50 national security officials who served in Republican information - in administrations have said that Donald [Trump] is unfit to be the commander- in-chief. It's comments like that that really worry people who understand the threats that we face.