The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes!

I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

The Republicans have a me too candidate running on a yes but platform, advised by a has been staff.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

A funny thing happened to me on the way to the White House.

We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.

Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set.

To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge.

The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers.

With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?

Nixon is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump for a speech on conservation.

A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.

Saskatchewan is much like Texas - except it's more friendly to the United States.

Flattery is all right so long as you don’t inhale.

America is much more than a geographical fact. It is a political and moral fact ? the first community in which men set out in principle to institutionalize freedom, responsible government, and human equality

It is often easier to fight for your principles than to live up to them.

The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions.

When you leave here dont forget why you came.

The United Nations is like a spade; it is not self-operating. It is what we make of it, for purposes that we can find in common with our neighbors in the world.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations—great or small—to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

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.

While only about half of the voters feel they know very much about Reagan or what he stands for, the Republicans who do have a very positive perception of him.

For the next century, the Republicans have agreed that we will promote the dignity and future of every individual by building a free society under a limited, accountable government that protects liberty, security and prosperity for a brighter American dream.

One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers.

Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.

Tonight was a great opportunity to take on the political status quo that has given us trillion dollar deficits and put millions out of work. Our objective was to inject some common sense into the conversation among Republicans at a time when business-as-usual simply won't work.

I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

We're going to march on Washington with a host of Republicans, Democrats, business leaders, legislators.

And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.

The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.

I think it's the broadest source of dissatisfaction amongst Republicans, out-of-control spending.

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

Most Republicans call the show 'The Left Wing.'

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

The adoption by Jefferson and the Republicans of the political structure of their opponents is of an importance hardly inferior to that of the adoption of the Constitution by the states.

If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.

Our debt is out of control. What was a fiscal challenge is now a fiscal crisis. We cannot deny it; instead we must, as Americans, confront it responsibly. And that is exactly what Republicans pledge to do.

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.