
“The Republican Party of 2005 bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of 1994.”
Source: Hardball with Chris Matthews, 11 February 2005
The Ed Show, October 1, 2009, MSNBC, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/33129724#33129724.
2009, Regarding the Republican Party
“The Republican Party of 2005 bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of 1994.”
Source: Hardball with Chris Matthews, 11 February 2005
Speech: “I Speak to You as an American Citizen” speech, Oct. 1, 1870, Douglas Papers, ser. I, 4:275
1870s
“I hope you're all Republican.”
Speaking to surgeons as he entered the operating room following a 1981 assassination attempt. http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=26804&pageIndex=1 To which Dr. Joseph Giordano replied, "We're all Republicans today." An alternative version has Reagan saying "Please tell me you're Republicans." (30 March 1981)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
On the Republican Party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD0p-wfCARk&feature=youtu.be&t=46s
2000s, What I've Learned (2008), Gore Vidal's America (2009)
“The Republican Party is the ship and all else is the sea around us.”
As quoted in Frederick Douglass American Hero http://books.google.com/books?id=9ykO8sKDE30C&pg=PA276&lpg=PA276&dq=%22I+know+the+man.+I+like+a+man+in+the+Presidential+chair%22&source=bl&ots=0JRNsxNa8j&sig=UJpkupLqhe7-DOrhKxCYSCo7EcY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FA9lU5z5JsnQsQTM1YH4CA&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22I%20know%20the%20man.%20I%20like%20a%20man%20in%20the%20Presidential%20chair%22&f=false (2008), by Connie A. Miller, Sr., p. 277
Variant: For colored men the Republican party is the deck, all outside is the sea.
Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Autumn 1872)
Speech http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/
“The Democrats are the party of slavery; the Republicans are the party of freedom.”
"The Dirty Trickster" (2008)