"Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know what no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me."
— George Orwell (1984)

"Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It’s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time. "
— George Carlin

"Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

"I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican. "
— Barbara Ehrenreich

"Republicans approve of the American farmer, but they are willing to help him go broke. They stand four-square for the American home--but not for housing. They are strong for labor--but they are stronger for restricting labor's rights. They favor minimum wage--the smaller the minimum wage the better. They endorse educational opportunity for all--but they won't spend money for teachers or for schools. They think modern medical care and hospitals are fine--for people who can afford them. They consider electrical power a great blessing--but only when the private power companies get their rake-off. They think American standard of living is a fine thing--so long as it doesn't spread to all the people. And they admire of Government of the United States so much that they would like to buy it."
— Harry S. Truman

"How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican. "
— Will Durst

"Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid. "
— John Leguizamo

"The Republicans believe in the minimum wage -- the more the minimum, the better."
— Harry S. Truman

"Republicans don't like people to talk about depressions. You can hardly blame them for that. You remember the old saying: Don't talk about rope in the house where somebody has been hanged."
— Harry S. Truman

"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
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— Jimmy Carter

"I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do. "
— Howard Dean

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Bob Dole revealed he is one of the test subjects for Viagra. He said on Larry King, 'I wish I had bought stock in it.' Only a Republican would think the best part of Viagra is the fact that you could make money off of it. "
— Jay Leno

"I came from a disadvantaged home. They were Republicans."
— Paul Tsongas

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself."
— Harry S, Truman

"As I've said repeatedly, Republicans are very good at describing things in black and white; Democrats are very good at describing the 11 shades of gray. "
— Joseph C.Wilson

"Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas.
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— Joe Baca

"We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it..."
— P.J. O'Rourke