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Jackie Robinson was honored in the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. What a ceremony. It doubled the number of statues in the rotunda because when it was mentioned that he was a lifelong Republican and Richard Nixon supporter, the Democrats turned to stone.

John Eddie Williams has taken a sudden and expensive interest in the SD7 race. But instead of being upfront about his involvement in a Republican Party primary, Williams apparently attempted to hide his contribution by sending it through an innocuously named political action committee. Voters deserve to know the true source of campaign funding and the real players in the race.

It adds to the woes of the president and the Republican Party in the midterm elections.

I talked to people before we started and they seemed a bit demoralized at the performance of the Republican Party.

It certainly surprises people that the governor and his wife and others would use that kind of language. It doesn't help him with Republican voters. He comes across as just another New York politician who doesn't share their values.

I think that Gavin Anderson was a quality opponent and a good Republican. I am pleased to be representing the Republican party, and I hope to win in November.

I think the best thing that can happen to the Republican Party is that it is identified as a party organized around a set of principles, ideals and ideas for our future.

I think that the president believes that is a period of time that he's put behind him, that the country has put behind him. I think Congressman Forbes ... was extremely uncomfortable remaining in the Republican Party and he was someone welcome in the Democratic Party.

I think we should thank the Republican Party in Washington because they assured us we are going to win next year.

It is no wonder Republican lawmakers are turning their backs on President Bush. They finally realized what the American public already knows: The truth is President Bush's policies have made America less safe.

I think they've done a good job of writing two very viable candidates. Vinick is a Republican I could vote for, which would be a first for me. Nonetheless, I think I'd have to go with the young, idealist Latino.

I think the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of less government intrusion.

I think there is one issue that really plays big in the Republican Party right now, and that's morality in government.

Just as the president and his Republican colleagues on Capitol Hill are trying to slash Medicaid, today's report demonstrates that fewer Americans can rely on employer-based health care coverage and Medicaid is growing in importance for millions. ... We should be working to address the rising cost of health care, not cutting the bottom out from under our families,

Just as people on the Democratic side of the aisle have their priorities, people on the Republican side of the aisle have their priorities, and what the governor is doing is looking out for all Californians and trying to get the best deal so that we can move forward and have a plan that improves people's quality of life into the future.

I think conservatives do not have confidence she has a well-formed judicial philosophy, and they are afraid she might drift and be a part of the activist group like Justice Souter has, ... She will need to articulate a vision of the Constitution and the role of a judge that is sound or she could be in trouble with the Republican senators.

Our focus is on Republican voters. We'll continue to have a discussion among Republican primary voters (about) why Ken Blackwell is the best candidate.

Rob Schilling has been successful in part because he doesn't approach people saying that he is a Republican who advocates every single facet of the Republican Party agenda without fail. He presents himself as a Republican who is also a single member of a five-member city council who can bring to the table certain ideas that maybe aren't represented elsewhere on the council.

Republican voters feel betrayed by the chairman of our party who is clearly using her position to favor a particular candidate in the June primary.

Republicans will destroy the country... that comes from a Republican sensibility, which is to destroy the fabric of the psychological well being of most men. They have gotten too involved with making money. They do not understand the real values, the democratic values, of the emotions and the commitments that are the basic drives that nourish us. This is why you should not vote Republican.

Republicans who had doubts about elements of the president's tax and spending programs were willing to play ball in the interests of advancing the Republican cause. Now that the president is in serious political trouble, they're more inclined to make some independent judgments.

Republican leaders are shamelessly exploiting the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and the disruption it caused to our energy supplies to promote their long-sought radical energy policy ... (and) devastate vast amounts of America's most prized environmental possessions,

Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - berating Franklin Roosevelt in particular and his attempts to ready the nation for inevitable attack.

Republican culture of corruption. There are so many corrupt members of Congress. By no means are all of the problems gone.

Reporters now see their role less as discovering facts and fair-mindedly reporting the truth and more as being put on the earth to afflict the comfortable, to be a constant thorn of those in power, whether they are Republican or Democrat.

Regardless of what the president may say on Tuesday night, the Republican budget is an alarming story. It includes policies that increase the deficit by nearly $300 billion, heaping mountains of debt on our children.

President Bush, up until last year, retained strong Republican support and was viewed as the ideological heir to Ronald Reagan. Since last summer, that support has steadily eroded ... Indeed many Republicans appear to be looking beyond the Bush administration and do not identify themselves as Bush Republicans but rather as Reagan Republicans.

Paul Ryan hasn't lacked for a job since he left college as the golden child of Wisconsin Republican politics, riding his family connections into a job with then-Senator Bob Kasten.

Part of the challenge of being a black Republican anywhere is that you start off with people walking in with chips on their shoulder trying to figure out what is wrong with you.

Our message is that if you want to change the direction of Pennsylvania - if you want a Republican Party that won't rubber-stamp pay raises and Ed Rendell's agenda - then Bill Scranton is your candidate.

Stand up, delink paying the UN dues from family planning. Don't let this issue be hijacked by an extremist group in the Republican party, ... Late Edition.

Texans for a Republican Majority did tender cause to be delivered and delivered to the Republican National Committee a check in the amount of $190,000, the check being for the same bank...

My opponent was the present Attorney General of the State, W. F. Fitzgerald, a very capable man, and probably the best man on the Republican ticket.

Nancy Johnson has moved from being a quiet champion of the wilderness bill to leading the charge in opposition to the Republican leadership's effort to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Marilyn is pro-choice, in favor of stem-cell research, wants to protect our beaches and oceans, and supports importing low-cost prescription drugs from Canada. As Democrats, we can have a Republican we can agree with on some issues or a Republican we will never agree with.

Maryland Democrats successfully stood against Republican efforts to corrupt the legislative process with this bigoted amendment.

I wish I had the same kind of outrage on the Republican side of this failure of the Republican National Committee and the Dole campaign to produce materials vital to this investigation.

I think she is vulnerable to a primary challenge now, but that would fracture the Republican Party. The only realistic chance Republicans have is to persuade Harris to get out of the race.

I think he needs to do it for two good reasons. It will invigorate the Republican base, which he sorely needs to do if he has any chance to win the special election. And it sends a positive message to the donor community that he's not going to cut and run.

I think he did challenge the Democrats, unlike any modern Republican presidential candidate, on the question of the basic direction of American government, particularly as it dealt with domestic policies and domestic economics, ... And it did shift the grounds of the debate.

I think Gov. Bush, with his record in Texas and with good support from the Republican Party here and his message, I think he can win regardless of who's number two,

I think more so than the Republican Party, we reflect America on the Democratic side of the aisle, and that's a healthy thing. I mean, that's what democracy is all about.

I think McCain is making a decision about whether he will run for president, and I think he will. If that's the case, he has a responsibility to reach out to every segment of the Republican Party.

Just in 2000, there was a four-point advantage to the Democrats. And what we've seen is the Democrat line coming down, the Republican line going up.

I think this vote is part of a long practice, ever since the confirmation battle over Justice Rehnquist to become chief justice, where Republican nominees have been treated in a despicable fashion.

A Christian cannot fail of being a republican.

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

I was probably the main driver on the Republican side because I thought we needed the answers to whether intelligence was misused, intentionally or unintentionally,

When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civil War, the Republican injunction to 'vote as you shot' kept the party dominant for decades; from 1868 to 1912, only one Democrat - Grover Cleveland - won the White House.

You can count on the right wing reaching into their deep pockets to spread a lie, so our job is to make sure the truth prevails and knock back Republican Swift Boat-style attacks forever.

Winning this race is important. It's important for the state of Ohio, but it's also important to maintaining our control over the Senate. It's vitally important to the Republican Party as a whole, so I think that's why you see the president coming to Ohio to support Mike DeWine." ()

Well, I'll be available to debate you before the Republican state convention Saturday. You name the time, and I'll be there." ()

We hope everybody is aware that the Republican National Committee considers the governor a target. This is a party that is opposed to programs that help working families and has been hostile to programs the governor has promoted to help working families in Illinois.

We don't consider him to be a legitimate Republican candidate and won't debate him.

We have ceded the small business arena far, far too much to the Republican Party. This is a tremendous missed opportunity for the Democrats. Small businesses are the ultimate little guy.

We have worked well with Iowa, but if any one Republican leader had called me two weeks ago, I would have told them our tentative date is Feb. 8, but it's not final and I wouldn't be signing contracts with anybody just yet,

Yeah, sort of good. I mean, there's a split in the Republican Party. Republicans used to be, once upon a time, for fiscal conservatism, and there are a few of those left, and they're starting to murmur more, and, you know, people forget Ronald Reagan raised taxes, you know, he cut taxes, but then he raised taxes. George Bush, the father, raised taxes. It's not, there's no law in the Bible that says a Republican can never raise taxes.

Under the Bush administration and Republican Congress, the special interests and their lobbyists are writing our laws and reaping the benefits.

We can always go too far, and frequently do. Is it a harbinger? Who knows. But it's unadulterated bad news for Bush and the Republican Party and great news for Democrats as they attempt to make a comeback in 2006.

We have a wealth of talent in the Republican Party.

The president and the Republican Congress really need to come up with a positive agenda of two or three bread-and-butter issues that all people, or most people, can get behind.

You have the bizarre situation now of the Republican race looking like it could end before the Democratic contest, and the Democratic contest includes the sitting vice president of the United States. I don't think anyone would have imagined that a year ago.

To have a chance, Lucas must both demonstrate he still has the fire in the belly to serve in Congress and succeed in making this race as much of a personal popularity contest as it can be. Still, you can bet Davis will seek to tie his opponent to his party label at every turn, and we give the freshman Republican an early leg up.

We're not surprised that there are people within the Republican Party that would think about endorsing Joe. He clearly is George Bush's favorite Democrat.

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

What you see is major Democratic elected officials in the state of California supporting this Republican governor,

We don't have a lot of Reagan-type leaders in our party. Remember Ronald Reagan Democrats? I want a Republican that can attract Democrats.

This would certainly be a symbolic act if he (Bush) is the first Republican to make the appointment ... I believe he is right enough.

The only support he has out there right now is among the conservative Republican base. I don't think he wants to rile the only friends he has left.

We want to learn from this effort so that every level of government is prepared when the next emergency occurs, ... follows long established precedence from similar investigations under both Democratic and Republican majorities.

The debate will be intense and emotional and the senators to watch are the Republican reformers, especially Chairman Specter.

When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.

Our gays are more macho than their straights.

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Every week Republicans are excited about a new candidate because the one they liked last week turned out to be a moron.

If its platform is any guide, the Republican party is staunchly pro-life until you are actually born.

As we go from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore Roosevelt to Mitt Romney, I now understand why the Republicans don't believe in evolution.

At twenty every one is republican.

The criminal indictment of Tom DeLay is the first chink in the armor of corruption that has so clouded, consumed and controlled the Republican majority over the past few years,

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

The implication that there was something wrong with the war plan is amusing.

I was soon drawn to the Republican Party because I realized that it truly, not just rhetorically, believed in equality.

If I can't negotiate something that gets more than four Republicans, I'm not a very good representative of my party.

White House is ranting up its rhetoric for Republicans, using wild words to attack them over the budget standoff.

I think Republicans forgot how to communicate with the American people.

Medical malpractice - that's a great issue for Republicans and you didn't hear anyone talk about it.

Republicans and conservatives have to figure out that Democrats have plenty of rope to hang themselves on their own. But you have to give voters a reason to vote for you as well.

You also need to show a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to impropriety. That's one of the things, again, that Republicans left on the table as a missed opportunity.

I think a New Guard-type of Republican - Eric Cantor is a rising star in the party.

Maybe Republicans should get nukes and the president [Barack Obama] will talk to them.

I've never been a partisan, I've never been a Republican, I've never been a Democrat, ever, which is why I was very frustrated being called a gay Republican when I never attached myself to that.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.

Republicans originally thought that Fox worked for us, and now we are discovering we work for Fox

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

What have we heard from Republican voters? They want somebody that's new, they want somebody that's fresh. They don't want an establishment.

John Kerry had surgery on his right shoulder this week to repair some damage. It was pretty bad, he had no feeling. It was almost like he was a Republican.

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.

Did you hear what the Republicans have said about Hillary Clinton? They say she's too angry to be president. Hillary Clinton, Senator Hillary Clinton, too angry to be president. When she heard this, Hillary said, 'Oh yeah? I'll rip your throats out, you bastards.'

To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.