
Lou Barletta, an immigration hard-liner in Congress, endorses Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/22/lou-barletta-an-immigration-hard-liner-in-congress-endorses-trump (March 22, 2016)
Democratic National Committee spokesman Hari Sevugan, quoted in * 2009-11-06
Bachmann leads rally opposing health plan
Kevin Diaz & Eric Roper
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Lou Barletta, an immigration hard-liner in Congress, endorses Trump https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/22/lou-barletta-an-immigration-hard-liner-in-congress-endorses-trump (March 22, 2016)
“The Republican Party of 2005 bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of 1994.”
Source: Hardball with Chris Matthews, 11 February 2005
Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
Disputed
“The Democrats are the party of slavery; the Republicans are the party of freedom.”
"The Dirty Trickster" (2008)
“And to us, we're more married than any piece of paper or big party could make us.”
Source: Catching Fire
Comparing Richard Nixon to Alben Barkley during the 1952 presidential race, as quoted in Richard Nixon: A Political and Personal Portrait (1959) by Earl Mazo, Chapter 7
“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.
2016, Interview with CNBC's John Harwood (August 22, 2016)
Speech: “I Speak to You as an American Citizen” speech, Oct. 1, 1870, Douglas Papers, ser. I, 4:275
1870s
“I want to be among those in the party who are willing to live up to Republican principles.”
As quoted in "Iowa state senator is first elected official to leave Republican party over Trump" http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/07/david-johnson-iowa-state-senator-leaves-republican-party-trump (7 June 2016), by Ben Jacobs, The Guardian, United Kingdom