Quotes About Ideology

Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets.

The Tea Party loves Reagan because he said exactly what they want to hear.

And the Tea Party represents many of us who believe that we are taxed enough already. We believe in free markets.

This nation has been through hard times. But those hard times have hardened our resolve. I'm ready to do the difficult work ahead. But I want to do that work with Barack Obama, and not a Tea Party ideologue. We can move America forward, but we can only do it together.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots.

Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.

I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party.

Beating the tea party gang is more important than who does the beating.

At root, the Tea Party is nothing more than a them-versus-us thing.

Obamacare notwithstanding, the current president's progressive instincts have been neutered by the rise of the Tea Party and Luddite conservatism.

I think that the tea party, grassroots ideology will win every time.

The Tea Party was really a two-front war - one against Obama, the other against any Republican politician who reeked of insiderdom or insufficient purity.

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching.

What we are against is the teaching of contested political ideas as if they are accepted facts. We don't do this with communism. We don't do this with socialism. We don't do this with capitalism.

There is a liberal fascism that is dedicated to going after believing Christians who follow the biblical teaching on marriage.

all alone to endorse Goldwater without a fight. "Fanatics of the Birch variety have fastened their fangs on the Republican Party's flanks," Nelligan told reporters, "and are hanging on like grim death.

The main character in Nixonland is not Richard Nixon. Its protagonist, in fact, has no name--but lives on every page. It is the voter who, in 1964, pulled the lever for the Democrat for president because to do anything else, at least that particular Tuesday in November, seemed to court civilizational chaos, and who, eight years later, pulled the lever for the Republican for exactly the same reason.

Nixonland is what happens when these two groups try to occupy a country together. By the end of the 1960s, Nixonland came to encompass the entire political culture of the United States. It would, in fact, for the next fifty years.

Rebelling against the status quo was one of the definitions of conservatism.

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance.

when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.