“Trump did not create the divisions in the Republican Party; he exposed and exacerbated them.”— Matthew Continetti
“We need to make sure that we are a party of reform, a party of the future, and a party of the people.”— Eric Cantor
“For the first time, a Republican Party is led by a man who is not a conservative.”— Matthew Continetti
“We have to be the party of ideas and solutions, not the party of anger and grievance.”— Charlie Dent
“We should have a system of Republican nominations that allows voters to act as a jury.”— Ari Fleischer
“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem.”— Barry Goldwater
“We're not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”— Lindsey Graham
“The bottom line is that we've got to find a way to make the Republican Party relevant to the future, not a party of the past.”— Lindsey Graham
“The Republican Party has decided that it will not be the party of inclusivity and diversity.”— Luis Gutiérrez
“I think the Republican Party has become the party of exclusion. They have to become the party of inclusion if they're going to survive.”— Michael Huffington
“The Republican Party has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.”— Thomas E. Mann