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Michael Steele

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Michael Steele is a prominent Republican political figure from Maryland, known for his role as the first African American chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), serving from 2009 to 2011. During his tenure, he focused on expanding the party's outreach to minority communities and modernizing its image. Steele has also been a vocal commentator on political issues, frequently appearing on various media platforms to discuss Republican strategies and policies. His insights often reflect a blend of traditional conservative values with a call for inclusivity within the party.

Quotes by year · 2006–2025416 total · peak 2021 (151)
2006: 3 quotes2009: 16 quotes2010: 14 quotes2012: 2 quotes2020: 90 quotes2021: 151 quotes2022: 113 quotes2024: 1 quote2025: 26 quotes
Apr 5, 2022

These claims are false and phony. The American people know it which is why I go back to the first point, the emphasis at this point is twofold.

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Apr 5, 2022

Accountability, accountability, accountability. I cannot emphasize enough how valuable and important that is to the people in this country who give a damn about the honesty and the truth about what happened.

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Mar 31, 2022

If there are members of the United States House or Senate, who in some way or other, either earlier on, during, or after the fact, were involved in this nightmare, yes, they need to be known, first off. And then the appropriate remedy…

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Mar 31, 2022

Nothing happens unless he wants it to happen. You don’t have Mark Meadows, you don’t have Peter Navarro. You don’t have anybody out here talking about trying to orchestrate, manufacture, create, or execute a coup, an insurrection, unless…

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Feb 28, 2022

We’ve already had some show they’re sort of child is behind as my mama would say, you know, by saying, well, I’m not going because I don’t want to get I don’t want to have to take a COVID shot.

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Feb 28, 2022

I think if anyone can do it, it’s Joe Biden, because he has been nothing if not consistent, in how he’s put together this coalition of not just the willing, but the fully engaged in locked arm and arm across NATO and the European Union.

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Feb 22, 2022

This is what disloyalty at home looks like.

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Feb 10, 2022

The fact to the matter is simply we have known and seen this pattern of behavior going back for quite some time.

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Feb 10, 2022

You didn`t want China or Russia, or someone else to be able to listen into his calls, whatever he was doing on the phone.

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Feb 8, 2022

We want this party to move off of the stupid and back into a position where it can govern the country and not run it into the ground by upending its democracy.

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Feb 8, 2022

This is all what Trump wanted. This is all about what Trump wanted.

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Feb 4, 2022

We officially seen the party embrace insurrection, embrace the big lie, we are now the party of the big lie officially.

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Feb 4, 2022

The only thing that matters is what Donald Trump wants. Our sun rises and our moon -- as you know, and the sun sets to Donald Trump. our dollars are raised and spent on behalf of Donald Trump.

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Feb 2, 2022

This is cutting very close to Trump. And it`s putting him in a position where he realized that he doesn`t have the power to stop it.

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Feb 2, 2022

You`ve got in front of you, a group of women who have survived a whole lot of crap to get to that point, try being a black woman in law school, a black woman working her way through a law firm to become a partner, let alone associate…

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Feb 1, 2022

This whole process has been about how Maga world is incentivized to turn out, how they`re incentivized to keep their mouth shut.

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Feb 1, 2022

They are cheaters. They are liars.

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Feb 1, 2022

The pressure now is not coming so much from Trump, it`s going to come from the MAGA base that has an expectation of how they will corrupt the system or how they think they`re fixing the system to make it better for themselves and their…

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Jan 31, 2022

You don`t stand there and swear an oath to Donald Trump. So all these Republicans run around here, you know, acting like peer fools (ph), and bastardizing their -- the oath that they took, and then undermining the Constitution, not only…

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Jan 31, 2022

If you give Donald Trump another bite at that Apple, he will take it and run it down your throat.

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Jan 31, 2022

He is a dangerous man. He is a very dangerous man.

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Jan 23, 2022

When you`re no longer held accountable for the things you do, the words you say, the actions you take, as an elected official, as someone empowered under our Constitution, an oath that you swore to uphold, if you`re not held accountable…

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Jan 23, 2022

It`s about retributive policy-making. It`s about how we use the system against those who turned us out of power.

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Jan 23, 2022

When the former speaker, Republican speaker of the House tells you that, come next year, and Republicans have the House and the Senate, people are going to go to jail from the January 6 commission, if you have got Steve Bannon and others…

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Jan 18, 2022

It`s a big deal, because now you`re going to have stuff coming out of the Trump administration for the public to see that shows the three things that John pointed out about a party and its leadership that don`t have a strategy, they`re…

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