Ed Rollins Quotes

I don't in any way think the American people rejected the Republican Party, or we'd be in a lot worse shape than we are.

If Republicans triumph in 2014, it will undoubtedly be as a result of Obamacare. In 2010, Republicans soared to historic victory because the much-maligned Tea Party spearheaded mass resistance to Obama's takeover of the healthcare industry.

For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. 'I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves,' he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

Obama rammed through Obamacare legislation without a single Republican vote.

'2016' is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I'm not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public opinion.

Because, Bill, I think we’ve given the South away to the Republican party for as long as anyone can foresee.

The Republicans got everything but the Democratic donkey.

There's a bigger difference between the first and second Bush administrations than there is between Bush and Obama. That's really true.

I think the GOP, the Grand Old Party, the Republicans, they will regroup.

I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

Hillary Clinton's loss has exposed the lack of Democratic power in this country at all levels.

I think the Right did us a service calling Obama a socialist for eight years. It inoculated us.

The Democratic Party has become the party of the coastal elite, and the Republican Party is the party of the working class and that average American citizen who's been struggling over the past eight years with Obama in the White House.

The reality is, the Republicans in Massachusetts are irrelevant and they're in collusion with the Democrats.

If no one can do that, yeah, Donald Trump better man the lifeboats, because there's some significant chance he'll win the nomination.

Think of the Republican Party as the opposition to the Democrats. It doesn't exist in California!

We have a two-party system: The Democratic Party, which is a party of no ideas, and the Republican Party, which is a party of bad ideas.

Obama has been attacked repeatedly for not wearing a flag pin, with Republicans claiming that his patriotism is in question. It's all a bit silly.

The increase in straight-ticket party voting in recent years means that competitive congressional races can tip one way or the other depending on the showing of the candidates at the top of the ticket.

I think reconciliation is Obama's goal - but the fight with the Republicans is like a fight with pit bulls, they never let go. Even worse, now the Republicans feel they can keep pushing and he will keep giving. They have not seen a stiff resistance on his part.

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.