I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.
I don't say bad things about my Republican colleagues, ever.
We're no longer saying that people who are pro traditional marriage are bigots, and we're also not saying that people who are, like me, a Republican that is for gay marriage, is less of a Republican.
In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.
Trump represents a vibrant and fed-up mass of people who see the Republican Party as standing for nothing, so they have turned to someone who can beat the party by standing for anything.
I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in that category.
I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
I don't consider myself to be a Pete King Republican or a Ted Cruz Republican or a John Boehner Republican, or a Tea Party Republican.
If I happen to be the only Jewish Republican, and I am as a result able to advocate for a stronger, more consistent foreign policy that helps keep my constituents safe and helps protect the freedoms and liberties of my nation, then I welcome that.
I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican.
The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
I'm not, like, some big Hillary supporter. I'm a Republican.
I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.
The only time you'll see me as a Democrat is when I play Sophia. In the real world I'm a Republican from head to toe.
I think, I want to see a Republican Party that has more folks that, that look and sound and operate like I do.
I am a Republican. I'm loyal to the party of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt. And I believe that my party, in some ways, has strayed from those principles, particularly on the issue of fiscal discipline.
It always is a battle for a Republican in Connecticut, even one who's a moderate like I am, and one who's an independent thinker.
We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.
Not all Republicans are rich, dress in three-piece suits, and have $200 haircuts. I'm somebody who's lived from paycheck to paycheck. I'm focusing on my blue-collar roots - I've worked side by side with union people.
I am a proud moderate republican. But I like democrats as well.
I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style.
Republicans need to speak up, and people need to know that not all Republicans are represented by the hostile, vile voice of Donald Trump.
The Republican establishment no longer stands for us.
It was weird that I was a young person who was Republican. And I wanted to get at the heart of why it was that so many people of my generation thought that being Republican just wasn't for them. They thought that conservative ideas just weren't for them.
I am speaking as a Republican now, not a national security expert, but I believe that my party needs to come together.
