Ronald Reagan Quotes

Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

The more that happens that makes sure liberals and liberalism remain a minority, the better off the world is gonna be and the better off this country is gonna be.

Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American.

My politics just kind of developed over time as a reaction.

The Tea Party is a rear guard, not a vanguard.

I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

I am not nor ever have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

Republicans do not believe in identity politics.

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

The Republican party is changing. It's becoming more populist.

I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

What many of the Senate Democrats are taking as the lesson of this election was that Hillary Clinton is too moderate and they need to go more Elizabeth Warren, more Bernie Sanders, more extreme and on the fringes.

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.

Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul.

I have a really interesting political point of view, and its not always something I say too loud at dinner tables here, but you cant go from a $2,000-a-night suite at La Mirage to a penitentiary and really understand it and come out a liberal. You cant. I wouldnt wish that experience on anyone else, but it was very, very, very educational for me and has informed my proclivities and politics every since.