Phyllis Schlafly Quotes

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have Democrats in it; they took the view that, after all, Reagan himself had been a Democrat, so it was not a strike against you.

I ended up working on over 150 political campaigns in 42 states; over a third of those were for Republicans. I want to be clear about that. Approximately two-thirds were for Democrats, so, I worked on both sides of the aisle, across the United States.

The Republican Party is the party of national security. There's hardly a national security wing of the Democratic Party anymore. So if we turn away from it, that'll be a big problem.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are forced to react. They get to be as corrupt as, basically, they want, and just ignore it.

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

'Moderate Republican' is simply how the blabocracy flatters Republicans who vote with the Democrats. If it weren't so conspicuous, the 'New York Times' would start referring to 'nice Republicans' and 'mean Republicans'

In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.

Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

There is only one party in the United States: the Property party... and it has two right wings: Republican and Democrat.

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

We went in ... Whigs, Free Soilers, and Democrats. We came out of it Republicans.

Politics is the entertainment industry for ugly people!

The special interests drive both parties to their extremes.

Republicans hate government ... So they let us Democrats run it for them.

There's a bigger difference between the first and second Bush administrations than there is between Bush and Obama. That's really true.

My parents were Democrats, and I was a Democrat. And John Wayne was a Republican.

Few believe Democrats will control both houses of Congress in 2021, and even if they manage to, Republicans will still be around to play spoiler on plenty of big agenda items.