Marco Rubio Quotes

I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that.

There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise, and they are doing everything they can to derail the conservative agenda

I am not a liberal who is so afraid of the word that I had to change my name to progressive.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

Let's get the elephant out of the room. I'm a conservative Democrat.

A liberal Republican is a contradiction in terms ... a moderate Republican is a liberal who doesn't like to call himself a liberal.

Today, the culture wars and the constant skirmishes over the size and scope of the welfare state have convinced conservatives that the country’s direst enemies are not “subversive” foreigners, but homegrown liberals.

I think liberals have a lot of good ideas, actually. But I've been pigeonholed, and I'm quite comfortable with it.

Wisconsin is a very liberal state and a very conservative state. We're the home of the progressive movement. We're the home of the Republican Party.

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

When I called Clinton a Wall Street puppet, they called me a right-wing extremist. When I said the same about George W. Bush, they called me an anti-war communist. Now that I'm against Obama for the same reasons, mainline conservatives embrace me. When I attack the next right-wing 'savior,' they're gonna call me a communist again.

I am not a Republican apologist.

I myself have not met a self‐confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class or the Middle West, those two gloomy seedbeds of talent), yet hardly a day passes that I don't read another attack on the “typical liberal” — as it might be announcing a pest of dinosaurs or a plague of unicorns.

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.

As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

Undoubtedly, the biggest misconception about me is that I'm some staunch conservative, blind, rightwing hardcore Republican who doesn't want to hear anything from the other side.

I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.