Thomas Massie Quotes

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.

While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just as much a problem as some of the Democrats, and we need to elect more senators like Senator Rubio and others who will stand proudly as conservatives to do the right thing for our country.

Paul Ryan is a solid conservative.

Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'

One of the greatest falsehoods of American politics over the past several decades is that the Republican party is the party of fiscal responsibility.

I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.

Like a cowboy saddling a bucking stallion, Republican leaders tried to tame the Tea Party while riding it to victories.

There's a feeling among some people that the Republican party is harsh on some things.

So, a lot of my supporters back home are members of the Tea Party.

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

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

I'd like to see a Republican Party that embraces a lot of the libertarian ideas.

There was a big difference between Ron Paul and me when it came to the 'no.' His 'no' was philosophical. It was reasoned. It was right. My 'no' actually put a stop to legislation. It cut spending. Mine carried further than just no.

While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

Ted Cruz is a patriot. He believes in what he does. He's done marvels in mobilizing conservatives, mobilizing Americans concerned about the direction of the ever-expanding entitlement state under Obama, and particularly the threat it is to freedom. I disagree with his tactics, but I agree entirely with his objectives.

I've always been about less government.

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

I consider myself a Republican.

This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them.

Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root.

The fact is, my friends, most Americans don't want more government. They want less government.

Actually, I'm a Republican.