Marco Rubio Quotes

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

I'm a registered conservative.

I believe that being conservative means you try to get in to the middle of the fight and try to solve the problem.

I'm known as a small-c conservative.

What the heck would the establishment know about conservatism?

I think there's a growing amount of confusion about what conservatism is. And it is time for us to understand that conservatism is not built on personalities. Conservatism is not simply built on how angry you might seem from time to time. Conservatism is built on a set of principles and ideas that our nation desperately needs.

I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.

Very simply, I was the original conservative.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

The Republican Party is either going to return to the party of fiscal responsibility and consistent conservative principles as it was under Ronald Reagan, or it will continue down the path of 'sporadic moderation.'

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one.

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

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

I'm as conservative as they come.