“The Republican Party of 2005 bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of 1994.”
Tucker Carlson (1969) American political commentator
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. <br class="br">2009, Regarding the Republican Party
“The Republican Party of 2005 bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of 1994.”
Tucker Carlson (1969) American political commentator
Source: Hardball with Chris Matthews, 11 February 2005
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
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.”
Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
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) <br class="br">1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
On the Republican Party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD0p-wfCARk&feature=youtu.be&t=46s <br class="br">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.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
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 <br class="br">Variant: For colored men the Republican party is the deck, all outside is the sea.
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) American women's rights activist
Letter to Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Autumn 1872)
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
Speech http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/the-nations-problem/
“The Democrats are the party of slavery; the Republicans are the party of freedom.”
Roger Stone (1952) American lobbyist
"The Dirty Trickster" (2008)