Quotes About Ideology

Politics might be religion for the Left, but conservatives understand there is more to life than politics.

I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

I've always been that contemptible thing, a luxury communist.

All I do is convert liberals to conservatism. That's what I do, and that's why they don't like me.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Liberalism is exhausted because it has become a corruption.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

Conservative is the new counter culture, and I consider myself to be a member of the counter culture.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

Liberalism has never done as well as it thinks at resolving its own crises.

One criticism that I hear occassionally is that I am actually not a real liberal, and I am secretly a conservative. Or sometimes they will say I am the only thing worse than a conservative - a dreaded 'right-winger.'

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

Mao Zedong's way was to make people crazy. It was like a religious cult.

Al-Qaida is a cult of martyrdom.

I think the Republican Party has become something of a personality cult.

The Right has been damaged beyond belief by its embrace of Mr. Trump.

We believe firmly that Communism internally and externally can and must be fought without resort to the Communist tactics of the suppression of all individual freedom.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

When you look at all of the conservative groups in town and across the country, we all agree on the same things. Where we sometimes get into a disagreement is over the tactics to get to the endpoint.

The biggest problem for the Republican Party has never been its primary calendar, its campaign tactics, or a lack of trainings. The party's biggest problem is what it believes, what it says, and how it governs.

Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.

I've been a Republican since age 13, when we got our first television set, and I saw the Republican National Convention on television. And President Eisenhower was talking about personal responsibility, about opening the door for opportunity and that people could really take care of themselves without a lot of government intrusions.