Frank Rizzo Quotes

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

The real problem with the Republican Party is that for decades it has shifted constantly to the right politically. Consequently, the Republican Party is picking up a very different demographic than it used to, a less well-educated demographic of people who are more prone to authoritarianism.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

I like to say now that the reason I'm conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

Barry Goldwater made conservatism so unattractive I wouldn't have voted for it myself.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

I used to think that James Kilpatrick and Barry Goldwater were really conservative, but now we’ve got people to the right of them. They want to use government to be punitive.

I am not nor ever have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.

I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry.

I became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and it was a reaction against political correctness, so I get it.

I don't view myself as marching to any right-wing drummer.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.