Quotes About Ideology

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

I don't think Keynesian Monetarism has to be Democrat or Republican.

I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.

My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.

I became a Republican, before I knew what a Republican even was, because of Ronald Reagan.

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.

It just seems like the Democrats always have a problem when a Republican gets in office.

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.

American history is the story of Democratic malefactors and Republican heroes.

I am a Reagan Republican.

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand of Republicanism that is being so vocally promoted today.

Traditional Republicanism grew up in the 1850s as opposed to the Democrats, who always saw the world kind of as a 'us vs. them' proposition. That the world was limited; the economy was limited.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

Consider this for a moment: House Republicans would rather cut off a woman's access to birth control, cancer screenings, and other preventative care from Planned Parenthood than continue to fund and operate the federal government.

Republicans and others who are in anguish over the possibility of socialized medicine ought to have to explain their ideology to a mother with a sick newborn. They ought to have to explain how this nation can debate health care and not mention how abysmal ours is.

I have no love for the Republicans, but the Democrats drive me absolutely crazy.

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