Michael J. Knowles Quotes

Personally, I'm right of center.

I'm an independent conservative. And what I mean by that - when I think we're right, I'm with us all the way, and I am a conservative. And I think my record reflects that.

Actually, I consider myself to be pretty politically conservative.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

I'm a registered conservative.

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

I'm an ultra-conservative.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

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

I do think it's possible to have a conservative personality.

Conservatism accomplished a lot of its goals in the latter part of the 20th century. What does 21st-century conservatism look like?

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

I'm for making the Republican Party conservative or making it die.

The word conservative has become so loaded by people who are radical and don’t want to admit that they are radical.

The Republican party should have learned its lesson -- that it must be a conservative party.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

The Republican Party has moved substantially to the right of where Reagan was.

I am a conservative Republican from the South.

I became a Republican, before I knew what a Republican even was, because of Ronald Reagan.

I want to establish a right-wing government.

We have to bring back that Reagan optimism.

Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.

I put my conservatism up against anyone. I'm a pretty staunch conservative, with pretty rabid ideas about conservative values... Questioning my conservatism doesn't seem like a particularly interesting project or exercise.

You know me: I've been a lifelong Republican.