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Plato
The Republic
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1 Tom Butler-Bowdon
1 Plato
NEW FULL DB (2.4M)
36 Rush Limbaugh
13 Bill Maher
11 Donald Trump
7 Hillary Clinton
6 Rachel Maddow
6 Jay Leno
5 William J Clinton
5 Rand Paul
5 Lewis Black
5 John McCain
5 Harry S Truman
5 David Brooks
5 Charles Evers
4 Noam Chomsky
4 Jackie Mason
4 Howard Dean
4 David Letterman
4 Conan O Brien
4 Barack Obama
4 Anonymous
3 Tony Campolo
3 Steven Levitsky
3 Reince Priebus
3 Ralph Nader
3 P J O Rourke
3 Nancy Pelosi
3 Matt Kibbe
3 Marie Lu
3 Marcus Tullius Cicero
3 Marco Rubio
3 Mara Liasson
3 Lawrence O Donnell
3 John Kasich
3 Jim DeMint
3 Glenn Beck
3 Frederick Douglass
3 David Stockman
3 Chris Matthews
3 Ann Coulter
2 Sinclair Lewis
2 Rudy Giuliani
2 Robert Reich
2 Robert G Ingersoll
2 Rick Perlstein
2 Randy Newman
2 Plato
2 Philip Pullman
2 Napoleon Bonaparte
2 Molly Ivins
2 Mike Duncan
2 Mary Beard
2 Mark Twain
2 Jo Walton
2 Jos Saramago
2 John Updike
2 John Conyers
2 John Bolton
2 Jill Stein
2 Jeb Bush
2 Jane Addams
2 James Carville
2 Greg Rucka
2 Ginny Dye
2 George Stephanopoulos
2 George McGovern
2 Franklin D Roosevelt
2 Edward Kennedy
2 David Frum
2 Dave Barry
2 Dana Gould
2 Chuck Wendig
2 Charles Schumer
2 Chaka Fattah
2 Bobby Jindal
2 Baron de Montesquieu
1:...if a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest. ~ Plato, The Republic and Other Works , #KEYS
2:reading ::: 50 Philosophy Classics: List of Books Covered: 1. Hannah Arendt - The Human Condition (1958) 2. Aristotle - Nicomachean Ethics (4th century BC) 3. AJ Ayer - Language, Truth and Logic (1936) 4. Julian Baggini - The Ego Trick (2011) 5. Jean Baudrillard - Simulacra and Simulation (1981) 6. Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex (1952) 7. Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789) 8. Henri Bergson - Creative Evolution (1911) 9. David Bohm - Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980) 10. Noam Chomsky - Understanding Power (2002) 11. Cicero - On Duties (44 BC) 12. Confucius - Analects (5th century BC) 13. Rene Descartes - Meditations (1641) 14. Ralph Waldo Emerson - Fate (1860) 15. Epicurus - Letters (3rd century BC) 16. Michel Foucault - The Order of Things (1966) 17. Harry Frankfurt - On Bullshit (2005) 18. Sam Harris - Free Will (2012) 19. GWF Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit (1803) 20. Martin Heidegger - Being and Time (1927) 21. Heraclitus - Fragments (6th century) 22. David Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) 23. William James - Pragmatism (1904) 24. Daniel Kahneman - Thinking: Fast and Slow (2011) 25. Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason (1781) 26. Soren Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling (1843) 27. Saul Kripke - Naming and Necessity (1972) 28. Thomas Kuhn - The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) 29. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Theodicy (1710) 30. John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) 31. Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage (1967) 32. Niccolo Machiavelli - The Prince (1532) 33. John Stuart Mill - On Liberty (1859) 34. Michel de Montaigne - Essays (1580) 35. Iris Murdoch - The Sovereignty of Good (1970) 36. Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil (1886) 37. Blaise Pascal - Pensees (1670) 38. Plato - The Republic (4th century BC) 39. Karl Popper - The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934) 40. John Rawls - A Theory of Justice (1971) 41. Jean-Jacques Rousseau - The Social Contract (1762) 42. Bertrand Russell - The Conquest of Happiness (1920) 43. Michael Sandel - Justice (2009) 44. Jean Paul Sartre - Being and Nothingness (1943) 45. Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Representation (1818) 46. Peter Singer - The Life You Can Save (2009) 47. Baruch Spinoza - Ethics (1677) 48. Nassim Nicholas - Taleb The Black Swan (2007) 49. Ludwig Wittgenstein - Philosophical Investigations (1953) 50. Slavoj Zizek - Living In The End Times (2010) ~ Tom Butler-Bowdon, 50 Philosophy Classics , #KEYS
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1:Tortured for the Republic. ~ James A Garfield, #NFDB
2:The Republic of Texas is no more. ~ Anson Jones, #NFDB
3:I will support the Republican nominee. ~ Jeb Bush, #NFDB
4:new fresh faces of the Republic. ~ Robert Ferrigno, #NFDB
5:who had fought for the Republic. ~ Phyllis T Smith, #NFDB
6:The Republican Party is not inclusive. ~ Charles Evers, #NFDB
7:I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy. ~ Sam Lipsyte, #NFDB
8:The Republican Party does not reach out. ~ Charles Evers, #NFDB
9:The Republic cured me of the Republic. ~ Barbara W Tuchman, #NFDB
10:God is not a franchise of the Republican Party. ~ Dick Durbin, #NFDB
11:In the Republican party, crazy is a constituency. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
12:The Republicans are all about suppressing votes. ~ Howard Dean, #NFDB
13:The Republican Party is extremely pro-women. ~ Michele Bachmann, #NFDB
14:I didn't leave the Republican Party. It left me. ~ Charlie Crist, #NFDB
15:The republican party is my vehicle, not my master. ~ John Kasich, #NFDB
16:The Republicans are never anything but villains. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
17:This is Commander Poe Dameron of the Republic Navy, ~ Greg Rucka, #NFDB
18:The Republican Party is officially a dumpster fire. ~ Chris Hayes, #NFDB
19:The Republicans could mess up a two car parade ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
20:The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws. ~ Tacitus, #NFDB
21:The Republicans think they have a corner on morality. ~ Marya Mannes, #NFDB
22:I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for... ~ Howard Dean, #NFDB
23:I'm chairman of the Republican Governors Association. ~ Bob McDonnell, #NFDB
24:Schoolhouses are the republican line of fortifications. ~ Horace Mann, #NFDB
25:Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
26:What's happened is the Republicans have been smart. ~ Collin Peterson, #NFDB
27:I don't think the Republican Party is against women. ~ Shannen Doherty, #NFDB
28:The Republic of Ireland didn’t have postcodes until 2015. ~ John Lloyd, #NFDB
29:On the Republican playing field, Republicans always win. ~ Robert Reich, #NFDB
30:The Republican Party does not want to defeat Democrats. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
31:Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party. ~ Walter Lippmann, #NFDB
32:During my visit, the Republican Majority Leader ~ Hillary Rodham Clinton, #NFDB
33:In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. ~ Robert G Ingersoll, #NFDB
34:The Republican base is not reflective of the whole country. ~ David Corn, #NFDB
35:I don't think the Republicans can damage my character ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
36:I'll support Donald [Trump] if he's the Republican nominee. ~ Marco Rubio, #NFDB
37:The Republican Party among the public is a minority party. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
38:The Republican Party has become an ethnic nationalist party. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
39:If the Republican Party shifts to the right, how will we know? ~ Randy Cohen, #NFDB
40:In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll, #NFDB
41:The republican system no longer constrained the individual. ~ Edward J Watts, #NFDB
42:Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party. ~ Ed Gillespie, #NFDB
43:The Republicans have a positive talent for self-destruction. ~ Barry Goldwater, #NFDB
44:Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party. ~ John Bolton, #NFDB
45:The Republicans are going to have a massive victory in November. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
46:Only the Republican Party cares about the issues that concern me. ~ Jackie Mason, #NFDB
47:Taiwan is the Republic of China, the Republic of China is Taiwan. ~ Tsai Ing wen, #NFDB
48:The bow tie is like the pierced eyebrow of the Republican party. ~ David Sedaris, #NFDB
49:The Republicans do not have feeling for people who are in bad shape. ~ Joy Behar, #NFDB
50:The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party. ~ Mara Liasson, #NFDB
51:Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness. ~ Jon Meacham, #NFDB
52:The most ethical administration in the history of the Republic. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
53:The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
54:The Republic-of-China - back in the Olympic Games for the first time ~ David Coleman, #NFDB
55:The Republican Party either corrupts its liberals or it expels them. ~ Harry S Truman, #NFDB
56:I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor. ~ Grover Cleveland, #NFDB
57:Sometimes you have to beat the Republicans before you beat the Democrats. ~ Matt Kibbe, #NFDB
58:The Republicans that want to get rid of [Donald] Trump are a minority. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
59:The republic is nothing, a mere name without body or form. JULIUS CAESAR ~ Mike Duncan, #NFDB
60:[Donald Trump] respect for the Republican leaders he denounced. ~ George Stephanopoulos, #NFDB
61:The Republican Party was founded in 1854 as an abolitionist movement. ~ Elbert Guillory, #NFDB
62:Truthfully, with the Republicans, I don't see that much wrong with them. ~ Jackie Mason, #NFDB
63:she hates that levee the way you and I hate hell and the Republicans. ~ Michael McDowell, #NFDB
64:Hillary Clinton's ready to pick a fight with Putin. So are the Republicans. ~ Ralph Nader, #NFDB
65:I will not leave the Republican Party, ... The Republican Party is my home. ~ John McCain, #NFDB
66:The Republicans are 90% corrupt, and the Democrats are 50% corrupt. ~ Robert F Kennedy Jr, #NFDB
67:What's important here is that the Republicans agree with [Donald Trump]. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
68:I think Mitt Romney is a symptom. I think the problem is the Republican Party. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
69:Syntax, my lad. It has been restored to the highest place in the republic. ~ John Steinbeck, #NFDB
70:Even the Republican Party doesn't have the legs to challenge Hillary Clinton. ~ Jackie Mason, #NFDB
71:It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic. ~ Johan Huizinga, #NFDB
72:if you get sick, America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly. ~ Alan Grayson, #NFDB
73:Unchecked competition eventually did more to destroy than to uphold the Republic. ~ Mary Beard, #NFDB
74:Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed! ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
75:Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor. ~ Julianna Baggott, #NFDB
76:There is no doubt in my view that Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee. ~ Geraldo Rivera, #NFDB
77:The Republican and Democratic Parties are only factions of the Government Party. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
78:The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists. ~ Barbara Ehrenreich, #NFDB
79:The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better. ~ Harry Truman, #NFDB
80:The republic was no longer a novelty, and here people only appreciate novelties. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
81:We belong to the One mastering God: you belong to the republic of playful gods. ~ Maurice Samuel, #NFDB
82:and money was the engine of American politics, especially in the Republican Party. ~ Bob Woodward, #NFDB
83:Anyone who says the Republicans have been irresponsible aren't looking at the facts. ~ Jim DeMint, #NFDB
84:I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy. ~ Richard Posner, #NFDB
85:The Republican Party was founded for the express purpose of opposing slavery. After ~ Ann Coulter, #NFDB
86:The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better. ~ Harry S Truman, #NFDB
87:What happens in the Senate is the Republicans sink to the lowest common denominator. ~ Jim DeMint, #NFDB
88:What is the environmental platform of the Republican party? I don't know either. ~ Lindsey Graham, #NFDB
89:Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population. ~ David Price, #NFDB
90:The Republicans are the party of bad ideas. The Democrats are the party of no ideas. ~ Lewis Black, #NFDB
91:The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives. ~ Jim DeMint, #NFDB
92:The Republican Party of 2005 bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of 1994. ~ Tucker Carlson, #NFDB
93:I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown. ~ Luis Fortuno, #NFDB
94:I invigorated the grassroots in the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
95:I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
96:President Obama came up with tremendous ideas, but he was blocked by the Republicans. ~ Nancy Pelosi, #NFDB
97:The Republican Party's history is rich and chock full of emancipation and black history. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
98:The Republican Party would be well-advised to get the heck out of people's bedrooms. ~ Rudy Giuliani, #NFDB
99:The Republicans proved they are not the party of 'no.' They're the party of 'f**k, no!' ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
100:To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really. ~ Randy Newman, #NFDB
101:Crony Capitalism Has Deep Roots The Ex-Im Bank and the trouble with the Republican party. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
102:used by the Republican Party during the war. They wanted to stress the national character ~ Ginny Dye, #NFDB
103:As Plato observes in the Republic, the tyrant “sprouts from a protectorate root.”124 ~ William McCants, #NFDB
104:I am certain that Mr. Johnston is not a douchebag despite what the Republicans claim. ~ James Carville, #NFDB
105:Our job is going to be to hold Donald Trump and the Republican majority accountable. ~ Charles Schumer, #NFDB
106:talks since the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949 when the Republic of China government ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
107:Tea Party has now cost the Republicans 5 senate seats. My next donation is going to them. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
108:The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor. ~ Harry S Truman, #NFDB
109:The Republicans can't go after Donald Trump where I think he needs to be criticized. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
110:Civilization as we know it today would be in jeopardy if the Republicans win the Senate. ~ Nancy Pelosi, #NFDB
111:It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism. ~ Erick Erickson, #NFDB
112:It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country. ~ Alan Lightman, #NFDB
113:You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy? ~ Ann Coulter, #NFDB
114:I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois. ~ Alan Keyes, #NFDB
115:Our homeland was America. Then the Republicans nominated Lindbergh and everything changed. ~ Philip Roth, #NFDB
116:Their position at the Republic base in Mirrin Prime was marked by a gently pulsing gold dot ~ Greg Rucka, #NFDB
117:The Ryan plan isn't a budget. It's the last will and testament of the Republican party. ~ David Stockman, #NFDB
118:What a joke! Poor little rich girl's fallen in love with the Republic's most famous criminal. ~ Marie Lu, #NFDB
119:corn sweetener is to the republic of fat what corn whiskey was to the alcoholic republic. ~ Susan Cheever, #NFDB
120:I'm proud of the fact that the Republican Party is the pro-life party on the issue of life. ~ Marco Rubio, #NFDB
121:The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol. ~ Howard Baker, #NFDB
122:The Republicans know very well how to lose, and they know how to be very civil in defeat. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
123:The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help. ~ Larry Flynt, #NFDB
124:Wouldn`t it be great for some of the Republican candidates to stand up to the money guys ~ Chris Matthews, #NFDB
125:I crossed the border into the Republic of Motherhood and found it a queendom, a wild queendom. ~ Liz Berry, #NFDB
126:The value of the liberal in the republic is not that he is logical but that he is inquisitive. ~ E B White, #NFDB
127:Mrs. Schultz believed in beer the way his grandmother believed in the Republican party. ~ Elizabeth Enright, #NFDB
128:The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves. ~ David Stockman, #NFDB
129:"What greater gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?" ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
130:I can't wait for the Republican debates to start and there's literally 65 guys on one stage. ~ Conan O Brien, #NFDB
131:No matter what Donald Trump does, he`s guaranteed to have support from the Republican Party. ~ Rachel Maddow, #NFDB
132:[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future. ~ Jimmy Carter, #NFDB
133:We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere. ~ Philip Pullman, #NFDB
134:And then what?" said her daemon sleepily. "Build what?" "The Republic of Heaven," said Lyra. ~ Philip Pullman, #NFDB
135:By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure. ~ Sheila Jackson Lee, #NFDB
136:Go down to the Republican headquarters. They ain't got a single black working there. Not one. ~ Charles Evers, #NFDB
137:I cringe every time I see no evidence of push-back by the Republican Party on Obama policies. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
138:Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
139:Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, sort of the three big hitters on the Republican side. ~ Steve Kornacki, #NFDB
140:Now, he’s leaving the Republic as their champion, to be celebrated and remembered for a lifetime. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
141:What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process. ~ Barney Frank, #NFDB
142:Libertarians should say, 'I love this country too much to take away votes from the Republican' ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
143:The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party. ~ James Carville, #NFDB
144:I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth. ~ Hunter S Thompson, #NFDB
145:I firmly believe that the benevolent Creator designed the republican Form of Government for Man. ~ Samuel Adams, #NFDB
146:[The Republicans] have come up with nothing. They say repeal and replace. That has alliteration. ~ Nancy Pelosi, #NFDB
147:I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans. ~ Jonah Goldberg, #NFDB
148:Now, so, if you want to blame someone for wasteful spending, the Republicans are in the majority. ~ Chaka Fattah, #NFDB
149:The most intimate community of all knowledge—the republic of learning is the high purpose of scholars. ~ Novalis, #NFDB
150:The Republican Party is the party of Eddie Haskell and the principal from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
151:We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government. ~ Buenaventura Durruti, #NFDB
152:We need to get back into grappling with people we disagree with if we want to restore the Republic. ~ Naomi Wolf, #NFDB
153:Let us show that, if the people abandon the republicans, the republicans do not abandon the people. ~ Victor Hugo, #NFDB
154:The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible. ~ Sarah Palin, #NFDB
155:Think of the Republican Party as the opposition to the Democrats. It doesn't exist in California! ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
156:Abdullah al-Sallal, the first president of the republic, came from a low-class butcher family. ~ Gregory D Johnsen, #NFDB
157:My view is Fox News is a propaganda outlet for the Republican Party and I don't comment on Fox News. ~ Howard Dean, #NFDB
158:The principal of unity and indivisibility of the republic are the essential reference points. ~ Giorgio Napolitano, #NFDB
159:The Republicans don't need black folks to vote Republican, they just need them to not vote. ~ Melissa Harris Perry, #NFDB
160:We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
161:battle droid? The most incompetent droid soldier in the history of both the Republic and the Empire. ~ Chuck Wendig, #NFDB
162:Let me just be very clear that the Republican Party will select a nominee that will beat Bill Clinton. ~ Dan Quayle, #NFDB
163:[The Republicans] all want to see women's rights eroded and for abortion to become illegal again. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
164:the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige. ~ John Jackson Miller, #NFDB
165:What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth? ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
166:While I was at Microsoft, the annual revenues grew larger than the GDP of the Republic of Ghana. ~ Patrick Awuah Jr, #NFDB
167:For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security. ~ George McGovern, #NFDB
168:I do think that the Republican Party is in a crisis right now, a crisis of confidence about who we are. ~ Jeff Flake, #NFDB
169:Like Ronald Reagan in 1976, today we may have to beat the Republicans before we can beat the Democrats. ~ Matt Kibbe, #NFDB
170:The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it. ~ Gary Johnson, #NFDB
171:The Republican debate got pretty heated. They spent most of their time arguing over who God called first. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
172:The Republican Party cannot win the White House anymore with just conservative and Republican votes. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
173:What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
174:The Republican Party seems just as eager as the Democrats to pronounce their voters as extreme kooks. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
175:The Republicans are... there is a small [Donald] Trump remnant, which is going over the cliff right now. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
176:Obama says he's bringing 10,000 troops home. The Republicans are calling it a failed jobs program. ~ Christopher Titus, #NFDB
177:The only thing wrong with the U.S. economy is the failure of the Republican Party to play Santa Claus. ~ Jude Wanniski, #NFDB
178:The Republicans have bought into the idea that people hate them because they're opposed to everything. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
179:When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic. ~ Benjamin Franklin, #NFDB
180:If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion. ~ Jerome Corsi, #NFDB
181:The Democrats planned to fiddle while Rome burned. The Republicans were going to burn Rome, then fiddle. ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
182:The Republican platform specifically says we don't believe in bailing out private business, and yet we did. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
183:Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something. ~ Kevin Drum, #NFDB
184:As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country. ~ William Howard Taft, #NFDB
185:I think the Republicans have really thoughtful financial policies, and I'm more in the middle on taxation. ~ Jamie Dimon, #NFDB
186:My job isn't to represent the Democrat Party or the Republican Party. It's to represent Hoosier families. ~ Joe Donnelly, #NFDB
187:Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi. ~ Tom Hayden, #NFDB
188:Libertarians love their children at least as much as the Democrats and the Republicans, probably more. ~ Michael Badnarik, #NFDB
189:The Republican Party is not treating me right, and they're not treating the people that I represent right. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
190:The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country. ~ Edward Kennedy, #NFDB
191:Donald Trump needs to understand the Republican establishment - they're not going to be his friend, either. ~ Sean Hannity, #NFDB
192:I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past. ~ Woodrow Wilson, #NFDB
193:The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB
194:The two symbols of the Republican party: an elephant and a big fat white guy who's threatened by change. ~ Seth MacFarlane, #NFDB
195:When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats? ~ Ben Stein, #NFDB
196:I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be. ~ George McGovern, #NFDB
197:I think the Republican party should be placed in drydock and have the barnacles scraped off its bottom. ~ Tallulah Bankhead, #NFDB
198:[Obamacare] was going to be the Republicans' big issue, and they're not talking about it because it's working. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
199:The end of the republic is to enervate and to weaken all other bodies so as to increase its own body. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli, #NFDB
200:I cannot overemphasize this, the attitude, the defeatist attitude that everybody on the Republican side had. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
201:In the final analysis, Sulla’s attempt to restore the Republic was doomed because he misdiagnosed the problem. ~ Mike Duncan, #NFDB
202:Second, unlike past episodes of extremism, this wave reached into the upper ranks of the Republican Party. ~ Steven Levitsky, #NFDB
203:The one thing I think we learned this year is that the Democrats and the Republicans are completely worthless. ~ Lewis Black, #NFDB
204:The Republican Congress is like a groundhog afraid of its shadow when a government shutdown is talked about. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
205:We can't unify around a single premise! Name one thing the Republican Party today could unify on. You can't. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
206:You can't say the negro left the Republican party; the negro feels he was evicted from the Republican party. ~ Edward Brooke, #NFDB
207:All women, come to the Republic of Costa Rica, where you will be cared for as the mothers of a new civilization. ~ Meg Elison, #NFDB
208:I think Ted Cruz is a very mean-spirited guy. You can see it from how the Republican Party responds to him. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
209:It’s our job to “keep” the republic called America, and we can hardly keep what we don’t even know we have. So ~ Eric Metaxas, #NFDB
210:The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens. ~ Charles Taylor Manatt, #NFDB
211:The Republicans have chosen to neglect young Americans who need assistance with the costs of higher education. ~ John Conyers, #NFDB
212:The whole Republican establishment has united to destroy his bid to be the nominee of the Republican Party. ~ Louis Farrakhan, #NFDB
213:This program that the Republican majority has taken us toward as a country is leading us to fiscal bankruptcy. ~ Chaka Fattah, #NFDB
214:I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do. ~ Howard Dean, #NFDB
215:My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town. ~ Camille Claudel, #NFDB
216:The media can't take Trump out, and that scares the heck out of everybody, particularly in the Republican side. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
217:I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated. ~ David Frum, #NFDB
218:I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress. ~ Kal Penn, #NFDB
219:The truth of the matter is President Trump brought together the Republican Party and the conservative movement. ~ Reince Priebus, #NFDB
220:The Republican Party has steadfastly sided with its donors and its lobbyists, and this is why we're where we are. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
221:Wow. Tough crowd.” Ty hummed and looked down at his hands, beginning the tune to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic. ~ Abigail Roux, #NFDB
222:If we have to have a real movement on this issue if you support gun control, it has to come from the Republican side. ~ Chuck Todd, #NFDB
223:I tell you, an honest man gets sick when he hears the word ‘Liberty’ today, after what the Republicans did to it! ~ Sinclair Lewis, #NFDB
224:The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican. ~ Charles Evers, #NFDB
225:Here in New York City, it's cold. It's so cold the Republicans want to use the Keystone Pipeline to deliver soup. ~ David Letterman, #NFDB
226:I would like Obama to be tougher on going up against the Republicans, I don't think he should try to be so moderate. ~ Rose McGowan, #NFDB
227:The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
228:Tolerance of dissent is the hallmark of a mature party, and it is well past time for the Republican Party to grow up. ~ John McCain, #NFDB
229:When a leader is in the Democratic Party he's a boss. When he's in the Republican Party he's nothing but a leader. ~ Harry S Truman, #NFDB
230:When it comes to being visionary in stealing, the Republicans do better than anybody. It's really something to see. ~ Conan O Brien, #NFDB
231:Cicero once said of Cato, ‘he talks as if he were in the Republic of Plato, when in fact he is in the crap of Romulus’. ~ Mary Beard, #NFDB
232:I admire that about the Republicans: The evidence does not faze them. They are not bothered at all by the facts. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
233:I believe, and that is that I am the strongest candidate to take it to the Republicans and win in November [2016]. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
234:If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights. ~ Jane Addams, #NFDB
235:I think the Republican Party is... accurately defined as a party that looks out for the interests of the very wealthy. ~ Bob Herbert, #NFDB
236:The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. ~ Robert Reich, #NFDB
237:Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs? ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
238:If the meanest man in the republic is deprived of his rights,then every man in the republic is deprived of his rights. ~ Jane Addams, #NFDB
239:I think we need to have more women in the Republican Party talking about what it is were trying to do for families. ~ Elizabeth Emken, #NFDB
240:The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. ~ Oscar Levant, #NFDB
241:The Republican Party may be forever reconstituted and changed, which may not be a bad thing either, in and of itself. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
242:The Republican Party was built on a coalition of the nation's biggest winners from globalization and its biggest losers. ~ David Frum, #NFDB
243:Gingrich is the "foremost intellectual" in the Republican party like Gene Simmons is the foremost intellectual in "Kiss". ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
244:If you want to find out what the future of the Republican Party is if Hillary Clinton wins, take a look at California. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
245:In 2011, he said that Donald Trump would run for the Republican nomination—and had a “damn good” chance of winning it.19 ~ Nate Silver, #NFDB
246:In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips. ~ Red Smith, #NFDB
247:Isn't it just heart-stopping and mind-numbing when you stop and realize that the Republican Party doesn't want to win? ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
248:The Democrats have responded to the Republicans' lack of dealing with reality by truly not dealing with reality, either. ~ Lewis Black, #NFDB
249:We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized. ~ Charles Baudelaire, #NFDB
250:I feel so out of place here. No matter how much money the Republic throws at me, I will forever be the boy from the streets. ~ Marie Lu, #NFDB
251:I really love what [Donald] Trump is doing. He is doing a great job of exposing the republicans for what they really are. ~ Tommy Chong, #NFDB
252:The Republicans were locked in: they would block any efforts to increase the minimum wage by even a few nickels. The ~ Elizabeth Warren, #NFDB
253:As you know now, Rush Limbaugh is the new face of the Republican Party, but they'll probably go with a different body. ~ David Letterman, #NFDB
254:It remains now to be seen whether we have the needed courage to have that cause entirely removed from the Republic. ~ Frederick Douglass, #NFDB
255:The Republican Party is in a predicament that it made itself. It made its own bed, and now they don't want to lay in it. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
256:If the equality of individuals and the dignity of man be myths, they are myths to which the republic is committed. ~ Howard Mumford Jones, #NFDB
257:I recognize the Republican Party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ark of his safety. ~ Frederick Douglass, #NFDB
258:I think we need to push harder, we the Democrats, because it's an open door for the Republicans - prosperity centers. ~ William J Clinton, #NFDB
259:Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better. ~ Ron Reagan, #NFDB
260:The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. ~ Thomas Jefferson, #NFDB
261:The Republican Party has finally admitted what has been fairly obvious for much of the past six years: It produces fake news. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
262:Donald Trump supporters are as opposed to Hillary Clinton and probably more so than the Republican Party establishment is. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
263:I agree with Clyde Wilson that America can’t be saved or returned to its roots until the Republican Party is destroyed. ~ Thomas DiLorenzo, #NFDB
264:It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man. ~ John Updike, #NFDB
265:It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson – the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man. ~ John Updike, #NFDB
266:I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality. ~ Alphonso Jackson, #NFDB
267:symbolize the ruinous consequence of America’s decision to abandon the republic that the entire world admired and loved. ~ James Lee Burke, #NFDB
268:When the Republican Party is no longer the party of fiscal conservatism then clearly I would argue that we've lost our way. ~ Bobby Jindal, #NFDB
269:Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change. ~ Ed Case, #NFDB
270:I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people. ~ Angus King, #NFDB
271:And, to his credit, he was a true defender of the republican virtues of debate, compromise, and consensus; a man like Cicero ~ Steven Saylor, #NFDB
272:I don’t work for the Republic, and I’m certainly not about to work for Count Dooku.” “Science doesn’t take sides, is that it? ~ James Luceno, #NFDB
273:I think one of the greatest things about the Republican Party is the understanding, we don't point fingers and we have class. ~ Angie Harmon, #NFDB
274:When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form ~ John Adams, #NFDB
275:Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. ~ Albert Camus, #NFDB
276:In fact, you see Hillary [Clinton] moving very far to the left. You see all the Republicans moving very far to the right. ~ Michael Bloomberg, #NFDB
277:I thanked him and said goodnight. I left him there and went into the house. Maria was playing 'The Battle Hymn of the Republic. ~ Ann Rinaldi, #NFDB
278:I've never been a politician, but , I am totally committed to the Republican Party. I feel very honored to be the front runner. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
279:The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
280:All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off. ~ Jack Kemp, #NFDB
281:If you will refrain from telling any lies about the Republican Party, I'lll promise not to tell the truth about the Democrats. ~ Chauncey Depew, #NFDB
282:Memmius would only be useless to him for a short time, but that he would remain useless to himself and the Republic forever. ~ Scipio Africanus, #NFDB
283:on the morning of the best day of her life, Maude Flynn was locked in the outhouse singing 'the Battle Hymn of the Republic ~ Laura Amy Schlitz, #NFDB
284:The dictator himself cast his reforms as a restoration, the sweeping away of clutter. Yet clutter was the essence of the Republic ~ Tom Holland, #NFDB
285:The Republicans need to work on registration and getting out their vote and their early voters and absentees. Grassroots stuff. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
286:As riches increase and accumulate in few hands . . . the tendency of things will be to depart from the republican standard. ~ Alexander Hamilton, #NFDB
287:Donald Trump didn't emerge from the orthodoxy of the Republican Party. And so there's going to be bigger differences than normal. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
288:I think God has blessed us. He has blessed the Republican Party with some very good candidates. The Democrats can't even find one. ~ Marco Rubio, #NFDB
289:It isn't personal per se to document what the Republican Party leadership is doing and how they're abrogating actual leadership. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
290:The Republic isn't as much fun as The Symposium. It's all long speeches, and nobody bursting in drunk to woo Socrates in the middle. ~ Jo Walton, #NFDB
291:...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost. ~ Montesquieu, #NFDB
292:It’s right there in the name. First Order. First, order. Fixing the mess left behind by the Republic and now the New Republic. ~ Delilah S Dawson, #NFDB
293:John McCain said that Sarah Palin is still a force in the Republican Party. Then he got in his car and backed over his mailbox. ~ David Letterman, #NFDB
294:Nay, Socrates," said Glaucon, "the measure of listening to such discussions is the whole of life for reasonable men". The Republic, 450c. ~ Plato, #NFDB
295:Great scientists and mathematicians were sent to the guillotine, too, on the grounds that the republic “does not need scientists.”52 ~ Ann Coulter, #NFDB
296:How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose? ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
297:In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people. ~ Rickie Lee Jones, #NFDB
298:I think I'm becoming a psychologist in explaining the Republican Party. It's the only way you can explain 'em. It's psychological. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
299:It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't. ~ Sam Hamill, #NFDB
300:The republic was no longer a novelty, and here people only appreciate novelties. We enter like lions and leave like broken old nags. ~ Jos Saramago, #NFDB
301:A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration. ~ Jeb Bush, #NFDB
302:If Abe Lincoln took part in the Republican debates, he would look out of place with his intelligence, compassion and gaping head wound. ~ Dana Gould, #NFDB
303:I refuse to do anything that would help Republicans win a Senate seat in New York, and give the Senate majority to the Republicans. ~ Harold Ford Jr, #NFDB
304:Francois Hollande is the president of the republic, he must be respected. I want to wish him good luck in the midst of these tests. ~ Nicolas Sarkozy, #NFDB
305:It doesn't matter if the Republican or the Democratic candidate wins the governorship [of Hawaii]. Either one is already in the kingdom. ~ Ed Silvoso, #NFDB
306:The aim of constitutional government is to preserve the Republic; that of revolutionary government is to lay its foundation. ~ Maximilien Robespierre, #NFDB
307:The breakup of the Soviet Union is a national tragedy on an enormous scale only the elites and nationalists of the republics gained. ~ Vladimir Putin, #NFDB
308:The carbon fuels industry-big oil and coal-have a 50-year lease on the Republican Party and they are drilling it for everything it's worth. ~ Al Gore, #NFDB
309:Together, we will lead the Republican party back to the White House and we will lead our country back to safety, prosperity and peace. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
310:You can always tell when Obama's negotiations with the Republicans are winding down, because he's missing his watch and his lunch money. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
311:At the Republican convention, there were lots of words used to describe Hillary Clinton, but warm, funny and caring weren't among them. ~ Tamara Keith, #NFDB
312:In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing! ~ Tony Campolo, #NFDB
313: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. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
314:I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
315:Now the Democrats control the Senate. But the good news is that now the Republicans can admit that Strom Thurmond has been dead since 1988. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
316:The one thing everyone in the Republic had plenty of was time. Whatever you didn’t do today really could be put off until tomorrow. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
317:The policies on the Republican side have been much better for Hispanics, for minorities, but the rhetoric, unfortunately, has not. ~ Mario Diaz Balart, #NFDB
318:The Republican path to victory is compromised when gay Americans are perceived as being attacked for just being how God created them. ~ Reince Priebus, #NFDB
319:The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable. ~ Salman Rushdie, #NFDB
320:though the Republic had abolished God, it had not quite succeeded in killing the fear of the supernatural in the hearts of the people. ~ Emmuska Orczy, #NFDB
321:We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas. ~ Lewis Black, #NFDB
322:What the media is doing is, again, just going after the Democrats and the Republicans and making it about politics instead of principles. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
323:If you look on the Republican side, the two Republicans who have most energized young people in modern times are Ronald Reagan and Ron Paul. ~ Ted Cruz, #NFDB
324:I'm part of the people who are more neutral. I'm just waiting for the dust to settle so that we can turn our guns against the Republicans. ~ Junot Diaz, #NFDB
325:Plato didn't have as much experience of humanity as he needed when he wrote a book like the Republic,' Socrates said. 'Perhaps nobody does. ~ Jo Walton, #NFDB
326:Hillary Clinton's ready to pivot to Asia and provoke China. So are the Republicans. It's on domestic issues that there will be a gridlock. ~ Ralph Nader, #NFDB
327:The Republican Party`s reacting now to the news of [Donald] Trump`s dominance in different ways. For some, they are pushing resistance. ~ Chris Matthews, #NFDB
328:Usually step one in a recovery is admitting that you have a problem. I think that's an important thing for the Republican Party to do. ~ Andrea Tantaros, #NFDB
329: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. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt, #NFDB
330:Mitt Romney has asked Todd Akin to step down. That's too bad. Todd Akin was the guy to lead the Republican Party into the 16th century. ~ David Letterman, #NFDB
331:The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use? ~ Lawrence O Donnell, #NFDB
332:...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost. ~ Baron de Montesquieu, #NFDB
333:You can be guaranteed a story on the presidential campaign is gonna lampoon the Republican candidate in every one of those news agencies. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
334:I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. ~ Rick Santorum, #NFDB
335:The Republican agenda is, and always has been, to repeal Roe v. Wade, and at the very least, erode it to the greatest extent possible. ~ Madeleine M Kunin, #NFDB
336:This is a guy [Michael Flynn] who stood up at the Republican convention and reveled in the chants of "lock her up" about Hillary Clinton. ~ John Heilemann, #NFDB
337:When legitimately constituted state authority stands down in the face of armed threats, the very foundation of the republic is in danger. ~ Rick Perlstein, #NFDB
338:Zuma vowed at his inauguration: “This is a moment of renewal. I will devote myself to the well-being of the Republic and all of its people. ~ Jacques Pauw, #NFDB
339:Defending birthright citizenship is about being on the right side of liberty. The 14th Amendment is a great legacy of the Republican Party. ~ Mark McKinnon, #NFDB
340:From the economy to national security to government ethics, the Republican nominee promised once-in-a-lifetime change if he is elected Nov. 8. ~ Paul Gigot, #NFDB
341:I’ve almost finished The Republic. I find Plato at times a vile casuist, and almost always a reactionary. But he does write exquisite Greek. ~ Iris Murdoch, #NFDB
342:The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics. ~ E J Dionne, #NFDB
343:The Republican Party is a much bigger tent than people give it credit for. We have a lot of what I guess you all call moderate Republicans. ~ Rudy Giuliani, #NFDB
344:If I'm the nominee, I will pledge I will not run as an independent. I want to win as the Republican. I want to run as the Republican nominee. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
345:[The Democrats] can't stop [Donald] Trump. They are in the exact position that the Republicans were in in 2009 and 2010 with [Barack] Obama. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
346:The Republican convention opens in New York to re-nominate George W. Bush and showcase the party's, quote, 'moderate side.' Will voters buy it? ~ Dan Rather, #NFDB
347:This is the Republican Party who has run against Russia for 80 years and you know, (Trump) hasn't mentioned (Putin) except in a positive way. ~ Randy Newman, #NFDB
348:So I'm in the Republican Party for the same reason I was in the Democratic Party: to make sure blacks are included, along with everyone else. ~ Charles Evers, #NFDB
349:The biggest story in all of politics are the millions of people that are coming out to vote for me, in all fairness, for the Republican Party. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
350:The Republican establishment, the mainstream corporate financial wealth, is getting to a point where it can't control the base it's mobilized. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
351:The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate. ~ Bobby Jindal, #NFDB
352:When I hear Governor Mitt Romney in his speech talk about how the Republican Party must stand for legitimate conservative values. They don't. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
353:Comparing what the Democrats offer to what the Republicans offer is like comparing the money I have in my pocket to what Bill Gates has in his. ~ Jackie Mason, #NFDB
354:I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
355:We demand in the Reconstruction suffrage for all the citizens of the Republic. I would not talk of Negroes or women, but of citizens. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton, #NFDB
356:I don't want to comment on media outlets, but I will tell you that if the Republican Party does not evolve, the Republican Party is going to die. ~ John Kasich, #NFDB
357:I have said from the beginning that Pat Buchanan left the Republican Party the day he questioned America's involvement in defeating Nazi Germany. ~ John McCain, #NFDB
358:The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude? ~ Ken Kesey, #NFDB
359:There was a sense of palpable relief that George [W.] Bush was leaving and that the Republicans had slipped back and that was a wonderful feeling. ~ Bill Ayers, #NFDB
360:All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
361:The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure. ~ Gerald R Ford, #NFDB
362:By the 2000s, married white Christians constituted barely 40 percent of the electorate, and they were now concentrated in the Republican Party. ~ Steven Levitsky, #NFDB
363:Hillary Clinton is going to find common ground with the Republicans on foreign and military affairs. They both want to enhance the military budget. ~ Ralph Nader, #NFDB
364:I take a step toward him and grin cheerfully. "With all due respect, I don't see the Republic tacking up wanted posters with your pretty face on them. ~ Marie Lu, #NFDB
365:It's like, duh. Just when you thought there wasn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties, the Republicans go and prove you're wrong. ~ Molly Ivins, #NFDB
366:Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it. ~ Matt Kibbe, #NFDB
367:You have the Republican establishment that is moving into Hillary's [Clinton] camp. What's happening in this election is sort of proof of principle. ~ Jill Stein, #NFDB
368:Did you see the 2000 Republican Presidential Convention? The last time the Republicans had that many Black people on a stage, they were selling them! ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
369:In the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised upon the fathers of the Nation is conspicuously evident. ~ Franklin D Roosevelt, #NFDB
370:Public office is supposed to be a public trust. This is a clear sign of the rampant corruption at the highest levels of the Republican leadership. ~ Bob Etheridge, #NFDB
371:Say, oh well, the Republicans don't like this therefor I shouldn't do it. What kind of a government would that be. We're not a parliamentary system. ~ John Kasich, #NFDB
372:This country will only reunite when people stop seeking the Republican answer, or the Democratic answer. The only one that counts is the right answer. ~ Ginny Dye, #NFDB
373:Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution. ~ Mark Twain, #NFDB
374:I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling. ~ Chris Matthews, #NFDB
375:Republican primary voters, whether they're close primaries or open, are voting for anybody but candidates attached to the Republican establishment. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
376:Speaker [Paul] Ryan made clear that the Republican congress agrees with [Donald Trump], and [building a wall] that`s something that should be done. ~ Mark Halperin, #NFDB
377:The National Federation of Republican Women has a long history of helping bring women into the political process while promoting the Republican cause. ~ Laura Bush, #NFDB
378:The Republicans in Congress, they believe in Ronald Reagan's Republican Party, not Donald Trump Republican Party or Steve Bannon's Republican Party. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
379: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. ~ Noam Chomsky, #NFDB
380:Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking. ~ Jonathan Chait, #NFDB
381:Americans are not getting screwed by the Republican Party. They're getting screwed by the large corporations that bought and own the Republican Party. ~ Molly Ivins, #NFDB
382:It is our sacred duty to transmit unimpaired to our posterity the blessings of liberty which were bequeathed to us by the founders of the Republic. ~ Andrew Johnson, #NFDB
383:It is unfortunate we were put in the position where the Republicans made it clear they were ready to let everything fall unless they got these tax cuts. ~ Joe Biden, #NFDB
384:I want you [Sarah Palin] to know you have my support. But please look into protection for your family. An attempt on you could bring the republic down. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
385:Self-government by the whole people is the teleologic idea. The republican form of government is the noblest and the best, as it is the latest. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
386:The idea of negotiating with the President of the United States runs contrary to everything that the Republicans have done since January 20, 2009. ~ Keith Olbermann, #NFDB
387:The Republican establishment has been pushing for lightweight Senator Marco Rubio to say anything to hit [Donald]Trump. I signed the pledge. Careful. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
388:To believe the fault for global warming lies exclusively with the Republican Party or its fossil fuel backers is a form of American narcissism ~ David Wallace Wells, #NFDB
389:You might like either the Republicans or the Democrats more than I do, but still something is wrong in today’s politics, even if we don’t always agree ~ Tyler Cowen, #NFDB
390:Comey was of the political right and a movement Republican. Until Trump came along, this socially conservative faction dominated the Republican Party. ~ Luke Harding, #NFDB
391:It's no surprise I am addicted to all the Republican presidential candidates. They are like crack -- in that they will devastate black communities. ~ Stephen Colbert, #NFDB
392:[One of the biggest differences between him and his rivals for the Republican nomination was] "every one of them wants to torture people. It's amazing. ~ John McCain, #NFDB
393:One of the biggest stories in all of politics worldwide, in all of politics in this country, for decades is what's happened with the Republican Party. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
394:The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim. ~ Andrew Carnegie, #NFDB
395:Accelerating the emergence of an American industrial bourgeoisie, the war tied the fortunes of this class to the Republican party and the national state. ~ Eric Foner, #NFDB
396:I think we have got to get the Republicans and the Democrats to get back to what I call the fiscal conservative, the issues that drive the tea parties. ~ Michael Enzi, #NFDB
397:Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that. ~ Mara Liasson, #NFDB
398:The republic stands for truth and honour. For all that is noblest in our race. By truth and honour, principle and sacrifice alone will Ireland be free. ~ Liam Mellows, #NFDB
399:I respect Sarah Palin. I appreciate her and her husband enormously. I think she will continue to play a major role in the future of the Republican Party. ~ John McCain, #NFDB
400:Over the course of two terms, President Reagan revolutionized the Republican Party and changed the political atmosphere in a way still being felt today. ~ Bill Jenkins, #NFDB
401:The author of McCarthyism was given the distinction of addressing the Republican National Convention. This strikes terror in the hearts of honest men. ~ Emanuel Celler, #NFDB
402:I pledge myself to serve the Corporate State, the Chief, all Commissioners, the Mystic Wheel, and the troops of the Republic in every thought and deed. ~ Sinclair Lewis, #NFDB
403:The Republicans believe that the wagon train will not make it to the frontier unless some of the old, some of the young, some of the weak are left behind. ~ Mario Cuomo, #NFDB
404:A lot of Republicans are white Christians, but the Republican Party is reaching out to Hispanics, and reaching out to blacks, and reaching out to Asians. ~ Susan Estrich, #NFDB
405:I think the platform ought to be pro-life. It is the basis of the Republican Party. People have got to understand that abortion is not a contraceptive. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
406:it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by its newspapers. ~ Harriet Martineau, #NFDB
407:Slavery is indeed gone, but its shadow still lingers over the country and poisons more or less the moral atmosphere of all sections of the republic. ~ Frederick Douglass, #NFDB
408:It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism. ~ Mitt Romney, #NFDB
409:I want to make sure that, not only in the Republican Party but in the body politic as a whole, people are aware of threats that remain to the United States. ~ John Bolton, #NFDB
410:The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right. ~ Glenn Danzig, #NFDB
411:The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
412:You wanted to show us…a battle droid? The most incompetent droid soldier in the history of both the Republic and the Empire. A mechanical comedy of errors. ~ Chuck Wendig, #NFDB
413:I don't think the Republican Party, or I should say the Republican Party as the vehicle for modern American conservative ideas, survives with Donald Trump. ~ Bret Stephens, #NFDB
414:...if the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years. ~ Douglas Wilson, #NFDB
415:Make no mistake, the Republican establishment has been relying on the media to be a premier agent in destroying Trump. And they can't. Ergo, there's panic. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
416:Of those two [Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump], I do think that the - right now, at least in my mind, the Democratic theme is eclipsing the Republican one. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
417:The Republican-controlled House voted to repeal the healthcare bill. If that goes well, they'll see what they can do about this whole 'women voting' thing. ~ Conan O Brien, #NFDB
418:The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite. ~ John Conyers, #NFDB
419:The Washington Post said that 50% of the contributors of the Republican Party were Jewish and 70% of the Democratic Party. That's 2% and they control America. ~ David Duke, #NFDB
420:As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is the Republicans are Socialists and the Democrats are Bolsheviks. ~ Cleveland Amory, #NFDB
421:Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . . ~ Mary McGrory, #NFDB
422:If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing. ~ David Stockman, #NFDB
423:People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
424:The Democratic National Committee is virtually 100 percent anti-firearms ownership, and the Republican National Committee stands on the side of the freedom. ~ Wayne LaPierre, #NFDB
425:The Republican Party is not in the hands of the Jewish lobby in America as the Democratic Party must look quite often to Jewish money to finance candidates. ~ Pete McCloskey, #NFDB
426:I believe the Republican Party is the party of the open door. Our party is the party of opportunity and freedom and equality, and it always will remain such. ~ Reince Priebus, #NFDB
427:One of the problems with evangelicalism is that it has allowed itself to be married to the Republican party... Jesus is not a Republican. Nor is he a Democrat. ~ Tony Campolo, #NFDB
428:the changing media landscape had a stronger impact on the Republican Party. Republican voters rely more heavily on partisan media outlets than do Democrats. ~ Steven Levitsky, #NFDB
429:I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do say that they have a problem I don't know that I believe 'em. ~ Glenn Beck, #NFDB
430:It wasn't hard to take a liberal stand on race so long as it was seen as a Southern problem, and the Republicans didn't have any white Southerners to placate. ~ Rick Perlstein, #NFDB
431:There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way. ~ Julie Roginsky, #NFDB
432:Congressional leaders on the Republican side are hoping chief of staff is [Reince] Priebus. They see Priebus as somebody who they can clearly work with. ~ George Stephanopoulos, #NFDB
433:How great an evil do you see that may have been announced by you against the Republic? - Videtis quantum scelus contra rem publicam vobis nuntiatum sit? ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero, #NFDB
434:In the United States, both the upper levels of the Republican and Democratic Parties are in the pay of the corporate media and communication giants. ~ Robert Waterman McChesney, #NFDB
435:The fact is that Paul Ryan's job is what John Boehner's job was in 2012 when Mitt Romney was running. his job is to make sure the Republicans get re-elected. ~ Kellyanne Conway, #NFDB
436:The Republican Party is like the corpse in 'Weekend at Bernies' and the Tea Party is like the two guys who put sunglasses and a party hat on it and drag it around. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
437:Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. He is taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over the Republican Party. ~ Hillary Clinton, #NFDB
438:Douglas understood what the Republicans failed to see—that Southerners were serious in their threats to secede from the Union if Lincoln won the election. ~ Doris Kearns Goodwin, #NFDB
439:I believe in the fireside. I believe in the democracy of home. I believe in the republicanism of the family. I believe in liberty, equality and love. ~ Robert G Ingersoll, #NFDB
440:It is important that the United States remain a two-party system. I'm a fellow who likes small parties and the Republican Party can't be too small to suit me. ~ Lyndon B Johnson, #NFDB
441:The Democrats said, "We don't know what's wrong with America, but we can fix it." The Republicans said, "There's nothing wrong with America, and we can fix that." ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
442:[Tom Cotton] is seen as a real rising star in the Republican Party. He`s the youngest member of the United States Senate, routinely described as an up and comer. ~ Rachel Maddow, #NFDB
443:Tonight the Republican presidential candidates had a big debate, 10 candidates. The last time that many rich white guys got together, I think Exxon merged with Mobil. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
444:Well, I think that it's clear that the Republican Party is a pro-life party. And we do value life. And we do believe that the unborn have a right to life. ~ Kay Bailey Hutchison, #NFDB
445:As those states and others in the South and West become more diverse and educated, they will become harder for the Republican Party - in its current form - to win. ~ Mara Liasson, #NFDB
446:Because the Republican Party are filled with cowards they're afraid to reach out to the Hispanic community, they're afraid to reach out to the black community. ~ Andrew Breitbart, #NFDB
447:Democrats are losing loyal voters, but the Republicans aren't picking them up. Democrats are ideologically bankrupt. Republicans have a major brand-identity problem ~ Herman Cain, #NFDB
448:For the first time the people of Iraq are united. Today on CNN I saw a Kurd, a Shiite and a member of the Republican Guard coming together to cart off a big screen TV. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
449:For the Republican Convention, I think of Trump's speech and sort of the darkness, the fear of crime, the need for a strong arm really, and so that one core theme. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
450:I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican. ~ Charles H Percy, #NFDB
451:I think we should not do what the Republicans did, which is to spend eight years saying they would do absolutely nothing because we do stand for the country. ~ Lawrence O Donnell, #NFDB
452:I will say that Bernie Sanders are the opposite end of the spectrum from Donald Trump. We see him leading right now in the Republican Party in an intractable way. ~ Rachel Maddow, #NFDB
453:The Republicans have a high Beady-Eyed Self-Righteous Scary Borderline Loon Quotient, as evidenced by Phyllis Schlafly, Pat Robertson, the entire state of Utah, etc. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
454:The Republicans or conservatives always, when it comes to judging, when it comes to legalities, always try to do the right thing even if it harms their interests. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
455:They are still trying to bomb with artillery and rocket-propelled grenades to hit the Republican Guard who are controlling Saddam International Airport. ~ Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf, #NFDB
456:Whatever I believe here and whatever you think I'm advocating, it's not because I care what happens to the Republican Party. I care about what happens to America! ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
457:When it comes time to default, they’re not going to remember any of the Republicans’ names. They are going to remember in history books one name, and that's Obama. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
458:You have two people who I would classify as extremists. Donald Trump because of his behavior and Ted Cruz because of his views, leading the Republican Party. ~ Lawrence O Donnell, #NFDB
459:Herman Cain told a group of Occupy Wall Street protesters to go home, get a job, and get a life. That's the Republican version of hope and change, ladies and gentlemen. ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
460:I think the Republican Party has indicated to everyone who wants to look at us that, you know, we're in the mainstream. We understand a lot of the concerns people have. ~ Bob Dole, #NFDB
461:Rumors have restarted that the Republican ticket will not be Bush-Cheney. But today those rumors were put to rest when Cheney said, 'No, I'm keeping him on the ticket.' ~ Jay Leno, #NFDB
462:The Republicans want illegal immigrants for different reasons. They want 'em for cheap labor. Democrats want 'em for voters. Well, Republicans would like that too. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
463:The Republic of Plato is also the first treatise upon education, of which the writings of Milton and Locke, Rousseau, Jean Paul, and Goethe are the legitimate descendants. ~ Plato, #NFDB
464:The truth is that America has been closely divided politically for quite some time. That was reflected in some of the challenges I had with the Republican Congress. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
465:House Speaker John Boehner said the Republican Party will no longer stand in the way of gay marriage. Then Boehner said, 'Now can I go to Elton John's Oscar party?' ~ Conan O Brien, #NFDB
466:Most Evangelicals claim to be politically non-partisan, and say they only identify with the Republican Party because the Republicans are committed to 'family values. ~ Tony Campolo, #NFDB
467:The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect them from competition. ~ Bob Barr, #NFDB
468:The Republican program is the profit-protection program for the insurance industry It's a bill of goods, it's a bill of wrongs. Ours is a patients' bill of rights. ~ Edward Kennedy, #NFDB
469:I have this belief that Donald Trump keeps floating the idea that he will quit the party and run as an independent if the Republican Party does not treat him fairly. ~ Rachel Maddow, #NFDB
470:The objective of the people who bring impeachment charges, if the Republicans do this on Trump, the objective will be to get one of them back in the power structure. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
471:The Republicans are mad at Donald Trump, and the Democrats are mad at Hillary Clinton. And the Bernie Sanders people are mad at everybody. When has that ever happened? ~ Frank Luntz, #NFDB
472:And what, above all, I blame in you is that you have not married in compliance with the law and given children to the Republic, as every good citizen is bound to do. ~ Anatole France, #NFDB
473:I think the Republicans are subverted by the fact that so many of their leaders send their kids to private schools, they don't really have the stomach for the fight. ~ Peter Brimelow, #NFDB
474:This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result. ~ Michael Moore, #NFDB
475:How about if I had two people in the race? The number would've been twice as good. In other words, people with 2 million people. Because the Republican party increased. ~ Donald Trump, #NFDB
476: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. ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
477:Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. ~ Baron de Montesquieu, #NFDB
478:Stuart Stevens, who ran Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. “Trump is a nut, and he likes to surround himself with nuts. It’s a disaster for the Republican Party. ~ Joshua Green, #NFDB
479:Well, dissent is the tradition in America, and I've been on the side of dissent a good bit of my career, particularly in the last many years of the Republican Congress. ~ Lloyd Doggett, #NFDB
480:In this way, the Hearsts became the symbol of the overly lenient parents of the era and a counterpoint to the Republican administration’s voice of discipline and order. ~ Jeffrey Toobin, #NFDB
481:The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They're not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is marching the Republican Party off a cliff. ~ Barbara Boxer, #NFDB
482:The fact that the Republican Party in particular often seems to stand for principle, only to cave in to pressure at the last minute, has turned off a huge number of voters. ~ Ben Carson, #NFDB
483:We've created over 200,000 jobs every month this year. Hasn't happened in 17 years. I guess my first question is, when do the Republicans stop calling it 'Obama's economy'? ~ Bill Maher, #NFDB
484:Bernie Sanders are the only person who talks about the kinds of things that might be driving people to support Donald Trump in such large numbers in the Republican Party. ~ Rachel Maddow, #NFDB
485:Conservatism's not the answer. The Republican Party has to reach out, moderate and modify its views to be able to accommodate radical Democrats, minorities, and so forth. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
486:I had to watch the Republican stuff which makes me feel even older than I am. By the time I get through the Democrats, I may be dead. I don't know how much older I can get. ~ Lewis Black, #NFDB
487:I think Donald Trump is now kind of in love with the idea of becoming president of the United States. I think he truly does believe that he can be the Republican nominee. ~ Rachel Maddow, #NFDB
488:The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte, #NFDB
489:The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of the Kochs or will it be the party of [Donald] Trump? ~ Jane Mayer, #NFDB
490:The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes. ~ P J O Rourke, #NFDB
491:was written before it became too embarrassing for the Republican party to hold its 1972 convention in San Diego, and I preferred not to follow the convention to Miami Beach. ~ John Lange, #NFDB
492:Haiti was a French colony, but in 1804, the slaves rose up and defeated the French and formed the Republic. For the last 200 years, Haiti has had a very unfortunate history. ~ Thabo Mbeki, #NFDB
493:In the republic of poetry,
the guard at the airport
will not allow you to leave the country
until you declaim a poem for her
and she says Ah! Beautiful. ~ Mart n Espada,#NFDB
494:I watched the Republican debate. At one point, the candidates said there are no classes in America, a point then hotly debated by all six rich white guys that were there. ~ Craig Ferguson, #NFDB
495:The public knows how many good things there are as part of the Affordable Care Act. The Republicans say they're going to repeal. They don't know what to replace it with. ~ Charles Schumer, #NFDB
496:Between 1994 and the year 2000, when the Republican majority was in control of the House of Representatives, President Clinton played House Speaker Newt Gringrich like a violin! ~ Ed Crane, #NFDB
497:He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
498:Herbert Hoover once ran on the slogan, 'Two cars in every garage'. Apparently, the Republican candidate this year is running on the slogan, 'Two families in every garage'. ~ Harry S Truman, #NFDB
499:The Republican and Democratic parties both feed out of the same bag provided by the monied system, and where the list frequently differs the same interests are represented. ~ George Seldes, #NFDB
500:The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing. ~ Herbert Spencer, #NFDB
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11 Philosophy
9 Christianity
5 Occultism
1 Integral Yoga
8 Plato
7 Saint Augustine of Hippo
3 Sri Aurobindo
3 James George Frazer
2 Plotinus
2 Aleister Crowley
7 City of God
3 The Golden Bough
2 Talks With Sri Aurobindo
2 Magick Without Tears