Republicans Quotes

“Did they know what Communism, “Bolshevism,” was? They did not; not my friends. Except for Herr Kessler, Teacher Hildebrandt, and young Horstmar Rupprecht (after he entered the university, in 1941), they knew Bolshevism as a specter which, as it took on body in their imaginings, embraced not only the Communists but the Social Democrats, the trade-unions, and, of course, the Jews, the gypsies, the neighbor next door whose dog had bit them, and his dog; the bundled root cause of all their past, present, and possible tribulations.”
― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

“Because it's always the last ones you suspect in my experience. The ones who hide their dark souls rather than show the world what a shit ball they are,' he replied, and I shook my head. 'And the fact that even though he's involved in all these good works, he voted down every reform or bill that would have actually helped people in need.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Storm and Fury

“Right wing extremists think the whole world is a leftist conspiracy.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“The Democratic Party saves its ire for the Progressives while the Right projects Progressives onto the entire Democratic Party as the Socialist lunatic fringe.”
― Egberto Willies, It’s Worth It: How to Talk To Your Right-Wing Relatives, Friends, and Neighbors

“If Jesus came back today, Republicans would stop him at the border.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“What I admire most about Republicans is that they never run out of lies.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“How Republicans think: Healthcare for peasants is too expensive. Just let the sick ones die and tell the healthy ones to have more kids. Problem solved.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“It's not the Illuminati or Free Masons or Lizard Aliens who control everything. It's the Republican Conspiracy that controls and manipulates you with their lies.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“The truth does
not become a lie,
right does not become
wrong, and good does
not become evil, just
because the minority
believes in conspiracy
theories & fake news!”
― Paul S. Lynch

“It is a rare man or woman who is ever really changed by ascension to high office, or tempered by the solemnity of the oaths they have sworn or by the national duties they have shouldered. And Spiro Agnew was certainly not among that rare breed.”
― Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

“I had turned over a log and exposed to the light a scurrying colony of unpleasant creatures whose only reaction was one of annoyance that I had been so crass as to disturb their settled way of life. (Elliot Richardson)”
― Rachel Maddow, Bag Man: The Wild Crimes, Audacious Cover-Up, and Spectacular Downfall of a Brazen Crook in the White House

“In Germany, Nazis are called right-wing extremists.

In America, Nazis are called Republicans.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“It is essential that this Convention repudiate here and now any doctrinaire, militant minority, whether Communist, Ku Klux Klan or Bircher which would subvert this party to purposes alien to the very basic tenets which gave this party birth.

"Precisely one year ago today on July 14, 1963, I issued a statement wherein I warned that:

"'The Republican party is in real danger of subversion by a radical, well-financed and highly disciplined minority.'

"At that time I pointed out that the purpose of this minority were 'wholly alien to the sound and honest conservatism that has firmly based the Republican party in the best of a century's traditions, wholly alien to the sound and honest Republican liberalism that has kept the party abreast of human needs in a changing world, wholly alien to the broad middle course that accommodates the mainstream of Republican principles.'

"Our sole concern must be the future well-being of America, and of freedom and respect for human dignity - the preservation and enhancement of these principles upon which this nation has achieved its greatness."

-Nelson Rockefeller at the 1964 Republican National Convention”
― Andrew Aydin John Lewis

“It is already apparent that the word 'Fascist' will be one of the hardest-worked words in the Presidential campaign. Henry Wallace called some people Fascists the other day in a speech and next day up jumped Harrison Spangler, the Republican, to remark that if there were any Fascists in this country you would find them in the New Deal's palace guard. It is getting so a Fascist is a man who votes the other way. Persons who vote your way, of course, continue to be 'right-minded people.'

We are sorry to see this misuse of the word 'Fascist.' If we recall matters, a Fascist is a member of the Fascist party or a believer in Fascist ideals. These are: a nation founded on bloodlines, political expansion by surprise and war, murder or detention of unbelievers, transcendence of state over individual, obedience to one leader, contempt for parliamentary forms, plus some miscellaneous gymnastics for the young and a general feeling of elation. It seems to us that there are many New Deal Democrats who do not subscribe to such a program, also many aspiring Republicans. Other millions of Americans are nonsubscribers. It's too bad to emasculate the word 'Fascist' by using it on persons whose only offense is that they vote the wrong ticket. The word should be saved for use in cases where it applies, as it does to members of our Ku Klux Klan, for instance, whose beliefs and practices are identical with Fascism.

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), there is a certain quality in Fascism which is quite close to a certain quality in nationalism. Fascism is openly against people-in-general, in favor of people-in-particular. Nationalism, although in theory not dedicated to such an idea, actually works against people-in-general because of its preoccupation with people-in-particular. It reminds one of Fascism, also, in its determination to stabilize its own position by whatever haphazard means present themselves--by treaties, policies, balances, agreements, pacts, and the jockeying for position which is summed up in the term 'diplomacy.' This doesn't make an America Firster a Fascist. It simply makes him, in our opinion, a man who hasn't grown into his pants yet. The persons who have written most persuasively against nationalism are the young soldiers who have got far enough from our shores to see the amazing implications of a planet. Once you see it, you never forget it.”
― E.B. White, The Wild Flag: Editorials from the New Yorker on Federal World Government and Other Matters

“[E]ven on the issues that are put up to democratic vote, we are saddled with a two-party system in which the liberal democratic party might be one of the most criminal orginizations in modern history. If you think I am exaggerating, consider that it's the democrats who: Fought the civil war on the side of slavery, created Jim Crow segregation after they lost that war, dropped the only nuclear weapons on a civilian population in history, stole a third of Mexico's land, and forced the Cherokee and other tribes on the infamous Trail of Tears, killed millions in the wars of Korea and South East Asia, doubled the country's prison population under Bill Clinton, deported over 2 million immigrants under Barrack, you get the picture. The point is not that there's anything better about Republicans: Many of whom probably look at the list above and sigh with envy, but that both major US parties are completely devoted to the priorities of the tiny class that runs this country. Each party may be paid to look out for a particular industry, republicans get lots of oil money, while democrats are preferred by the tech industry. But sometimes they propose different strategies to achieve the same ends: such as whether the United States should destroy Middle-Eastern countries with or without the approval of the United Nations. More often, their differences are even less substantial and are almost entirely about how to get a different voting block to support the same policies.”
― Danny Katch, Socialism . . . Seriously: A Brief Guide to Human Liberation

“Republicans love to take other people's rights away while yelling about freedom.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“Republicans think selfishness is a virtue.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“You might assume my father is a Republican because he's so old-fashioned. But actually he's a Democrat. In the South, the difference is that Democrats go bird hunting while Republicans go deer hunting.”
― Maggie Thrash, Lost Soul, Be at Peace

“Democrats versus Republicans is a huge scam designed to make you angry towards other Americans, specifically, your family, friends, and co-workers.”
― James Thomas Kesterson Jr

“As a Republican, I say to my colleagues on this side of the aisle that the Republican party faces a challenge today that is not unlike the challenge which it faced back in Lincoln's day. The Republican party so successfully met that challenge that it emerged from the Civil War as the champion of a united nation-in addition to being a party which unrelentingly fought loose spending and loose programs.

Today our country is being psychologically divided by the confusion and the suspicions that are bred in the United States Senate to spread like cancerous tentacles of "know nothing, suspect everything" attitudes.”
― Margaret Chase Smith

“As a United States senator, I am not proud of the way in which the Senate has been made a publicity platform for irresponsible sensationalism. I am not proud of the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this side of the aisle. I am not proud of the obviously staged, undignified countercharges which have been attempted in retaliation from the other side of the aisle.

I do not like the way the Senate has been made a rendezvous for vilification, for selfish political gain at the sacrifice of individual reputations and national unity….

As an American, I am shocked at the way Republicans and Democrats alike are playing directly into the Communist design of "confuse, divide, and conquer." As an American, I do not want a Democratic administration "whitewash" or "coverup" any more than I want a Republican smear or witch hunt.

As an American, I condemn a Republican Fascist just as much as I condemn a Democrat Communist. I condemn a Democrat Fascist just as much as I condemn a Republican Communist. They are equally dangerous to you and me and to our country. As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves.”
― Margaret Chase Smith

“We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country....

Certain elements of the Republican party have materially added to this confusion in the hopes of riding the Republican party to victory through the selfish political exploitation of fear, bigotry, ignorance, and intolerance. There are enough mistakes of the Democrats for Republicans to criticize constructively without resorting to political smears.”
― Margaret Chase Smith

“It is high time that we stopped thinking politically as Republicans and Democrats about elections and started thinking patriotically as Americans about national security based on individual freedom. It is high time that we all stopped being tools and victims of totalitarian techniques-techniques that, if continued here unchecked, will surely end what we have come to cherish as the American way of life.”
― Margaret Chase Smith

“Republicans will never support you... Even in New York, you are the wrong color to run as a Republican.”
― Roger Alan Bonner, The Vote Trader

“CPAC is Comic-Con for Nazis.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, American Fascism: A German Writer's Urgent Warning To America

“I don't fathom the red and blue, You can't make a rainbow with two colors.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“In Germany, Nazis are called right-wing extremists. In America, Nazis are called Republicans.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“If you're Black in America doing politics, Republicans have a tendency to be existential enemies. And white Democrats are totally unreliable.”
― Mike Jones

“Americans flip flopping between Republicans and Democrats may eventually destroy the USA and possibly the world.”
― Steven Magee

“Freed from the need to appeal to the median voter, Republicans have hewed to a more conservative and confrontational path than the country would prefer. They have learned to win power by winning land, rather than by winning hearts and minds.”
― Ezra Klein, Why We're Polarized