NOTABLE QUOTES

"Many conservatives went along with the leftist lie that racist cops systematically slaughter innocent black men in America. They thought it would appease the mob and somehow prove their anti-racist bona fides. Did they really think so enormous a lie would cause no harm?"

-Michael Knowles

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"I'm pretty sure you lose 100% of the battles that you begin surrendering."

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)

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"Through its silence and moral cowardice, the GOP has given a green light to those in positions of power to obliterate societal pillars and personally vilify those who dare defend them."

David Limbaugh

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It may be that resistance is less edifying than reform. It’s perhaps true that resistance is less intellectually stimulating than devising remedies. It could well be the case that resistance is less inspiring than reviving a party or rebuilding a movement. And there may well be occasions where emergencies and the national interest will call us to work with the president. But the chief duty for Republicans over the next four years will be resistance.

William Kristol

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"The problem with the GOP is that they still think it is about solving problems when it really is about saving the Republic"-

Jer

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"Christie might think he's being surrounded by all kinds of media love right now, but in reality, he's only being surrounded. "

John Nolte

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"American conservatism didn't arise from a yearning to conform to public opinion. Its raison d'être was to defend constitutional liberty and economic opportunity – free men and free markets – and to make the case that human dignity and prosperity flourish not when government is all-powerful, but when it is limited."

Jeff Jacoby

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"There is something worse than being a person without a party. And that is being a member of a party without a soul. "

James P. Gannon

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"The Democrats have been building a national machine while the Republicans have been running campaigns...
...As a general rule Machines beat campaigns."

Newt Gingrich

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"[T]urns out the Mayan calendar wasn’t wrong. It was just their John Boehner horoscope".

Erick Erickson

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"It is growing ever more obvious that we are headed towards a Hunger Games nation where the political elites hold the rest of the nation both in contempt and in bondage through the destruction of personal property rights and the dismantling of individual freedoms."

Jer

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"I know of no other way to stimulate the economy than to leave more money in the private sector. If you want to stimulate the economy in Louisville, Kentucky, you leave more money in Louisville, Kentucky. Until they cut out the waste, the fraud, the abuse and the nightmare spending up here, why would we ever consider as Republicans thinking about raising taxes?”

Sen. Rand Paul

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"[T]he GOP's real mandate to fight Obama is based not on the selfishness of money, but rather on the moral obligation to protect millions of other Americans from the consequences of the left-wing idealist's naïveté -- because the socialist's agenda, when implemented, ultimately disenfranchises nearly everyone,"

Paul Murphy

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“We send good conservatives to D.C. to fulfill the promises they made to the electorate, and yet when they stay true to their word the permanent political class in their own party punishes them. This won't be forgotten come 2014. Right now the GOP establishment is more concerned about the opinion of the media and the Georgetown cocktail circuit than they are ‘we the people’ who hired them. For all this new talk of how the GOP needs a ‘populist movement,’ it would do them good to remember they already have one; it’s called the Tea Party movement, and it won for them the majority they now enjoy in the House.”

Sarah Palin

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"Listen, Republican leadership, you made a cock-up of this last election. We conservatives are stunned and still reeling that you could have lost it. We can't believe it. This election was impossible to lose. We should have been able to run Donald Duck and win. But you managed to lose the election to the worst president in American history -- an anti-American Marxist -- in a horrible economic recession he is largely responsible for, and you still lost the election. That is really an incredible accomplishment. We can't wait to see what you're going to do for us next."

J.T. Hatter

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"He (Calvin Coolidge) also said, 'Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.' Today, it seems the GOP is willing to pull down the strong so they don’t get blamed by the weak. They’re going to get blamed anyway. They might as well fight."

Erick Erickson

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“Our ideas work. Their ideas don’t.”

Senator -elect Ted Cruz (R-TX)

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“It’s not going to be the last time anyone says something stupid within our party, but it can’t be tolerated within our party. We’ve also had enough of this dumbed-down conservatism. We need to stop being simplistic, we need to trust the intelligence of the American people and we need to stop insulting the intelligence of the voters.”

Bobby Jindal

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"Imagine: If someone had told you that Barack Obama would receive 9 million fewer votes in 2012 than 2008, you would have predicted his sure defeat. You would have been wrong. Republicans blew a huge opportunity."

PAUL KENGOR