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"I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party."
"Moderate Republicans are reverse Houdinis. They tie themselves up in knots and then tell you they can’t do anything because they’re tied up in knots."
"I applaud the fact that the president has reached out to the members of Judiciary Committee. And I applaud... the fact that he has been meeting with members of the Judiciary Committee. He's been seeking out Republicans as well as Democrats."
"I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been."
"If Abe Lincoln took part in the Republican debates, he would look out of place with his intelligence, compassion and gaping head wound."
"The Republican Party is the party of Eddie Haskell and the principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off."
"People are starving for that coming out of Washington. And it's not a Democrat thing or a Republican thing. I think it's a politician thing."
"I'm a Republican, but I find Nancy Pelosi very attractive. She hasn't done a single thing as congressman or Speaker of the House that has turned me on, but I find her quite okay."
"[Trade] was clearly a factor.That was a complete reversal of where things are normally at. Usually Republicans are all for free trade."
"If everybody in our caucus had a 50/50 [Democrat/Republican] district, we'd have a lot different discussion. But if they have a 90 percent Democratic district, they don't ever talk to a Republican, they don't have to and they don't want to."
"What's happened is the Republicans have been smart."
"Republicans have spent a lot of money redistricting and everything, getting control of these governorships and statehouses."
"When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see."
"I can't wait for the Republican debates to start and there's literally 65 guys on one stage."
"My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere."
"I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people."
"Join the Republican party if you cannot abide Democrats. You will probably loathe Republicans just as much, but there are fewer of them."
"It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, if you're young or old, what the racial thing is, nothing matters to me."
"Oh no, the dead have risen and they're voting Republican."
"Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to."
