It's definitely a bigger hill for a Republican to climb in a city that's heavily Democratic like Charlottesville. The situation has to be right, and the candidate has to be right, for a Republican to win.
Matt Smyth
This kind of story hits at one of the president's few remaining strengths, the perception that he is principled. The president's credibility on Iraq is already low outside the Republican Party, and this digs the hole deeper.
Christopher Gelpi
I just hope that the president and the Republican leaders distance themselves from this and find some way to be critical of those people who have been so insensitive to those veterans who found themselves in harm's way.
Charlie Rangel
Because of this, [Blasdel] is the perfect Republican candidate for Congress ? fiscally irresponsible and a deficit spender. It's no wonder Washington, D.C., Republicans recruited him.
Jason Burke
It's not surprising that Republicans endorse Republicans.
Blake Zeff
The Republican Party has never been this narrow, litmus-test type party.
Christine Todd Whitman
[Such elasticity is bipartisan, of course.] The hypocrisy on the Republican side is just as blatant, ... Everybody should just admit it. Substance matters. It's not just the résumé.
A.j. Davis
MAJESTY, n. The state and title of a king. Regarded with a just contempt by the Most Eminent Grand Masters, Grand Chancellors, Great Incohonees and Imperial Potentates of the ancient and honorable orders of republican America.
Ambrose Bierce
Not one--not one Republican Senator--voted for Senate Bill 27.
Sen. Wendell Jones
It's crazy to think the Republican state committee's goal is not to have more than 24 percent of the vote. The focus of the state party is to win elections.
Ryan Moses
The Republican leadership in the House is more ideologically homogenous than parties have been in a century. You don't find great variation in policy positions.
Bruce Oppenheimer
Voters will decide which is more fair. We have the potential next year for the election to be presided over by one of the candidates running for governor. Is this fair and impartial? Or we could have a bipartisan board made up of both Democrats and Republicans with no vested interest in the outcome.
Keary Mccarthy
The dilemma we face is the Republicans in Congress have designed this leviathan Medicare D program. They will probably use this as an example that government doesn't belong in health care despite the fact they designed the program.
Rick Dickinson
Republicans want to win. There is a view among Republicans that it's time to have a new candidate.
Ron Saxton
In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken
It's not so much if the Democrats do things, it's if the Republicans don't do things in terms of governing and then (Republican U.S. Rep. Tom) DeLay remains in the news in a negative way.
Gregory Rocha
Republican strategists will be looking for the person who can best connect with the early-adopting Republican activists.
Patrick Davis
If Rudy Giuliani decides to drop out, the Republicans should see me as an alternative they could turn to, ... But I am not looking to force the issue. I think he will stay in.
Joseph Dioguardi
It would be pretty irresponsible for Democrats to say we want to cut back on fossil fuels and not support nuclear. If Democrats made it a little easier to move forward on nuclear power, that might make Republicans more inclined to support a climate-change initiative.
Michael Kraft
The Republican Party is making important gains in a critical constituency.
Tucker Bounds
Very little credibility and very little appeal to anyone anywhere on the Republican ideological spectrum.
Jim Jordan
[Some Republicans have blamed Blanco and other local officials for initial missteps.] It's not Louisiana vs. Mississippi, ... It's what went right in Mississippi in planning and recovery vs. what went wrong in Louisiana.
Kevin Madden
I expect it to be rough. We're taking nothing for granted. I think he will be confirmed, but he will be confirmed because the Republicans have the [majority].
Sean Rushton
The House continues to be up for grabs in the next two years. There are 25 Republicans who won with 50 percent or less, and there were 46 Republican members who won by less than 10 percent. We're going to recruit strong candidates, we're going to run a strong aggressive race in 1998 and we fully expect to take the House back in the next election.
Martin Frost
Lugar has always been recognized as having stronger environmental tendencies than most Republicans.
Andy Fisher
My guess is it'll be a Democrat-Republican thing, not a Caucasian-American Indian race. It's party when it comes down to it.
Craig Grau
It was already the position of his administration that Mitchell should have immunity. This is exactly what you do when you're in the solicitor general's office in cases like this. You argue for the broadest executive power position that can be argued. No one in any administration — Democrat or Republican — would have said anything different.
Stuart Taylor
We get too bogged down with labels, Republicans, Democrats. I think the newer way of thinking is non partisan. ... It's what's best for our people, to be a good human being, a good Texan.
Veronica Martinez
I'm proud of the race I ran. I expect that the issues that issues that were important to me and to a lot of Republicans will still be discussed. I'm glad we were able to air issues that have not been talked about public ally. I'll be working on my career now and waiting for new political adventures.
Rick Neudorff
Democrats were in power for 40 years. It's taken the Republicans only 10 years to get as corrupt.
Stanley Brand
This is a political lynching, ... We're not going to sit back and let the Republicans overturn the election and thwart the will of people.
Mike Doyle
Helping our cause is a Republican Party that saw the results from the last election and decided that their candidates were not partisan or divisive enough, even though their standard-bearer ran a campaign focused tightly on the GOP base.
Kevin Griffis
There are a good number of Republicans in New Hampshire who wonder what happened to their party.
Dante Scala
I'm not certain that voters are sophisticated enough to see this as Republican wrongdoing rather than a crooked Congress, ... So we have to be very careful how we handle this.
Charles Rangel
What this is about, I think the homosexual agenda and the Log Cabin Republicans, they're the ones at the center of this.
Chuck Anderson
The Republicans are abandoning Romney. The Senate Republicans are not going to flip-flop because he did.
Gary Piontkowski
As more Republican and Democratic officials move into private-sector jobs and then move back into the public sector, you'll see more and more cases like this.
Kirk Hanson
Usually there's more discipline on the Republican side.
David Damore
It was terse and highly effective, written for people without much time by a person who controls the purse strings for the Republican Party.
John Walke
He was a Republican.
Peter Kinder
The Republicans were making gains through the first four years of the administration - and they could have consolidated those gains and made further gains, ... I don't want to preclude anything, but with 38 percent approval ratings, Republicans gains are going to be hard to come by. More likely they will experience reversals.
Andrew Kohut
If the situation in Iraq has not improved, and if the hurricane causes an economic downturn, then Republican candidates have something to worry about.
Dan Schnur
I think he's come through in as good shape as the Republicans could have hoped.
Jeffrey Segal
Republicans in Congress better beware.
Alan Hoffenblum
Ronnie Earle railroaded a grand jury into indicting Tom DeLay so that our majority leader would be forced to resign his post. The Democrats could not beat him in the House of Representatives or at the ballot box, so they changed the venue and manipulated the rules of the game in a last-ditch effort to derail him and our Republican agenda.
John Culberson
As far as I can tell, the Republicans, at least on Capitol Hill, are far more immoral, by their own standards, than the Democrats are.
Joe Conason
Helen McKinney's not the rank-and-file, ... Across the board, the Republican rank-and-file have had enough.
Robert Vasquez
Marches will only get you so far. There has to be an electoral component to get the Republicans out of the majority.
Armando Navarro
They wanted to get Republican or Republican-leaning people out to vote.
Bill Plante
Curry County has always, since I've been here anyway, had more Republicans than Democrats.
Connie Higgins
George Washington University College Republicans outstandingly represent the three goals of the College Republican National Committee: to help elect Republicans, support the president's agenda and prepare future leaders of the party.
Paul Gourley
In the last five years, really since Republicans took control, there seems to be more of this going on than previously, which is baffling. It's special property rights, not property rights for everyone.
Bill Jonson
When issue like the internal Republican debate over the ports dominates the news it puts us another day away from all of us figuring out what policies we need to win.
Terry Nelson
If he gets his approval ratings up to the mid-40s, then at least Republicans can fight on their own.
Chuck Todd
This issue has been very divisive in the Republican Party. You can't help but extrapolate that and say it would hurt the Republican ticket at all levels.
Pam Fichter
I don't really think the comptroller is concerned about a Republican candidate that may run against him in the general election. I don't think he was expecting Bob Ehrlich to keep his party completely aligned, just as it is difficult to keep the Democratic Party completely aligned. There are so many voices.
Michael Golden
Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.
Dan Quayle
Once again, the Republicans in the Senate have rejected an increase in the minimum wage. They support tax breaks for multi-millionaires, but they oppose helping the working poor to earn a decent income.
Mark Dayton
You'd don't get appointed head of the State Board of Education as an 'outsider' to the system. He's been at the Republican trough for a very, very long time.
Roger Germann
We need to change this administration. There are a great many Republicans as there are Democrats that are worried about where this state is going.
Jack Billion
This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans.
Dennis Kucinich
Once the process was started by the desire to buttress Republican districts, the question still is regardless of that, how cognizant of ethnicity can you be in crafting a district. How distorted can a district become when the purpose is to capture a particular race or ethnicity?
John Alford
As long as outside groups, including labor unions, refrain from airing any TV or radio ads dealing with the U.S. Senate race in New York, the Republican Party pledges to do the same.
Bill Powers
[Democrats voiced their argument that Bush is too extreme on abortion for most voters.] Republicans try to avoid the issue to get nominated, ... They never can.
Joe Andrew
I don't care, really, whether the movie polarizes people, Republican, Democrat, ... I don't think it should. But what's more important to me is that I hope Marines get something out of it. I hope that they feel like we honored them, because we meant to.
Peter Sarsgaard
Mister Fisher, the Deputy County Executive, has changed his party enrollment from Republican, back to Democrat.
Dennis Ward
The good news is yesterday was Sunday and the Republicans could not file another lawsuit.
Peter Deutsch
There was no imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be good politically. This whole thing was a fraud.
Edward M. Kennedy
This is less about Republican versus Democrat - there isn't a partisan way to collect the garbage, ... the national level where ideology is more of an issue.
Eva Moskowitz
There has been a fundamental change in the paradigm of politics today. I don't think Republicans even realize this.
Eric Massa
I think he's the most competitive Republican.
Eric Davis
[Rep. Eric Cantor, the 7th District Republican whose district includes parts of Spotsylvania and Caroline counties, said a Homeland Security move to the Old Dominion would be] great news for Virginia. ... the best location for the DHS to help protect the safety of all Americans.
Eric Cantor
It's a pretty Republican place.
Ellen Qualls
Congressman DeLay is the single most powerful member of Congress. This has got to affect the Republican Party.
Elizabeth Vargas
The Republican leadership has every intention of putting language allowing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge back into this bill in conference.
Edward Markey
We'll support whoever the Republican nominee is, but we expect to be that nominee.
Edward Cox
That is a looming disaster for our party to have a candidate who only gets the support of the Republican Party.
Edward Cox
Democrats and Republicans alike don't like this. That's the only thing we've got left.
Edgar Eller
I wouldn't be honest ... if I didn't say there might be a little disappointment on the Republican side about Gore's announcement.
Reed Gillespie
A lot of these Republicans have never been in the minority and a lot of them have come up through the House and not started as senators, so they don't give it quite the same respect that has been there in the past.
Ed Rollins
A lot of money was spent in 2004 to produce the results that gave the Republicans their big majority in the Texas delegation. These districts have been drawn to elect either Democrats or Republicans.
Earl Black
The Republican team is killing the Democratic team in that week by a margin of three-to-two. But the Democrats made up for it through spending by individual groups.
E. Joshua Rosenkranz
We need to sit down and get this job done. This isn't about Republicans and Democrats, it's about mothers and fathers, ... We will not be intimidated by the NRA.
Zoe Lofgren
Brothers and sisters, our democracy has been hi-jacked. Brothers and sisters, all of our total freedom in this country is over, so long as it is controlled by corporations. Brothers and sisters, we are not going to allow these streets to be taken over by the Democrats or the Republicans!
Zack De La Rocha
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