Nick Anderson Quotes

Liberals ... enjoy the company of other liberals, just as conservatives enjoy the company of other conservatives.

The division of Whig and Tory... is the most salutary of all divisions and ought, therefore, to be fostered instead of being amalgamated; for take away this, and some more dangerous principle of division will take its place.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

I was never a Democrat but there are some Republicans who think I ought to be.

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

If the Democratic Party is to win in November, it will have to fly with both its wings—the liberal and the conservative.

What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.

All Fundamentalists are conservatives, but not all conservatives are Fundamentalists. The best conservatives can often give lessons to the liberals in true liberality of spirit, but the Fundamentalist program is essentially illiberal and intolerant.

I don't fit into the traditional Republican box that the wingnuts who have hijacked my party think all Republicans should.

I think part of the problem that the Republicans have is that the base has, in many cases, certain litmus test issues on which they are black and white on their thinking.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.

When I watch a guy I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks I probably wouldn't like this person if I met him, or we would have different opinions.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

Have we come to the point where the Democratic Party needs a Republican President?

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Men have differed in opinion and been divided into parties by these opinions from the first origin of societies, and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time.

In truth, the parties of Whig [Liberal] and Tory [Conservative] are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names, or by those of Aristocrats and Democrats, Cote Droite and Cote Gauche, Ultras and Radicals, Serviles, and Liberals.