Stephen Harper Quotes

I'm fiscally conservative but socially moderate. A moderate Republican - there just aren't many of us left.

I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people.

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

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

Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.

Barack Obama would have been seen as a liberal Republican—a kind of Rockefeller Republican in the 1960s. He is at most a centrist. To think of him as somebody in the left is often almost laughable.

I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal.

I'm looking for some centrist political party to find a home in and it's not there, actually.

I don't think that Donald Trump is a conservative. In fact, you go on Fox News, and half the people say he is and half say he isn't.

I have no problem if you want to be a socialist. But for those people who are in the middle, you know, I don't know if you're really welcome in the Democratic Party, and I don't even know who the Republican Party is anymore. I have absolutely no idea.

Sometimes I'm a little Republican, sometimes I'm a little Democrat.

I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.

I have never knowingly dated a Republican.

It always is a battle for a Republican in Connecticut, even one who's a moderate like I am, and one who's an independent thinker.

A lot of us were wondering, what is Trump really going to be like? He used to support Democrats and have various views earlier in his life about politics.

At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground.

Fiscally, I'm very conservative... others say that I'm socially moderate. As a former judge, I listen to all the facts, and I make a decision as to what I believe is in the best interest of the state.

Carlos Beruff supported Charlie Crist after he left the Republican Party. Does that should like someone who is a conservative Republican?

I was always a right-wing girl as far back as I can remember.

I am a conservative Republican, but I didn't start out that way. I was raised as a Democrat.

I wasn't born into one of the two main parties, but both my parents had a strong sense of social justice.

I do vote, and naturally, I vote for so-called extremist parties, the further to the right the better, but that's where my participation in politics ends.

Republicans don't vote Republican because of Nancy Pelosi. They vote Republican because they are Republicans.

I think President Obama is clearly, you know, a Republican. I know, because in the 1990s I was a Republican, and he's way to the right of me, and I've hardly changed any positions.

I don't like to define myself as necessarily conservative. What is it to be a conservative? What is it to be a Republican, even?