"In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point."
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"I think Democrats do a lot to talk the talk and don't do a lot to walk the walk on wage gap. I think Democrats like to make this a partisan issue and it's really not a partisan issue. Republicans are for equal pay and obviously have been on the record saying as such, and somehow the Democrats have created a false narrative that we are not for equal pay when in fact there's no truth to that."
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"I became a Republican because I trust people more than I trust government."
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"Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other."
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"There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism."
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"I prefer, in a word, the republican system, because it comes up more nearly to God's system."
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"There are in fact many ways to combat the Trump project of creating a tiny America, isolated from the world, cowering in fear behind walls while pursuing the Paul Ryan-style domestic policies that represent the most savage wing of the Republican establishment."
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"There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people could be an electoral base to keep them in power."
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"The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party."
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"[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein."
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"The Republican Party among the public is a minority party."
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"The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized."
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"The Republicans went so far to the right that they just can't get votes. They've become a dedicated party of the very rich and the corporate sector."
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"Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago."
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"When Republicans used reconciliation in 2001 for the Bush tax cuts, they used it to increase the deficit. The whole purpose of reconciliation is for deficit reduction!"
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"Republicans and Democrats can barely do what they're supposed to do, and they sure can't do math!"
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"The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either."
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"No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous."
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"As a former Republican, I represent a group of Americans who all too often have no one to speak for them. This group doesn't necessarily have a name. We've been called 'moderates,' but that term can be misleading."
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"If you get the U.N. to say we're going to solve the Syrian problem, if you get the Russians involved in a productive posture, you are making progress, but the Republican core says no strategy or failed strategy."
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