Jane Mayer Quotes

[The Kochs] they hate big government.

Very simply, I was the original conservative.

I'm a libertarian. It's a terrible word.

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

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

I'm more of a Tea Party person.

There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by Hobbesian yahoos of the right. Among the former, one sees the upholding of the view that a gentleman's business and property are his own, and none of the government's. Among the latter, a distaste for democracy, for taxation, and for the need to consult others about the planet.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

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.

In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

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

I prefer for government to err toward less regulation, lower taxation, and free markets. And I'm a radical free trader.

I'm an ultra-conservative.

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

Libertarians are my most intense enemies

I am a Reagan Republican: I believe in Free Market Capitalism; I believe in economic growth.

I think I'm turning into a libertarian. I'm not part of the gaggle of Hollywood liberals. I gaggle for no one, and I'm not a liberal. I'm libo-conservo-rado-middle-of-the-roado.

Personally, I'm right of center.

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