Russell Kirk Quotes

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

I don't know what Russell Moore's politics really are. I don't know if he is a closet liberal or if he is a conservative.

certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.

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

I think what I'm trying to do, reform-wise, is completely consistent with conservative philosophy. It may not be consistent with some so-called conservatives who live in Washington and make their living like I used to.

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

I don't like labels necessarily because a label doesn't mean very much. But when it comes to being conservative, I happen to be conservative.

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

I used to be a conservative.

I don't think that Donald Trump is a conservative. In fact, you go on Fox News, and half the people say he is and half say he isn't.

The believing mind reaches its perihelion in the so-called Liberals. They believe in each and every quack who sets up his booth inthe fairgrounds, including the Communists. The Communists have some talents too, but they always fall short of believing in the Liberals.

I have found a certain type calls himself a Liberal...Now I always thought I was a Liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a Right-Wing Conservative Extremist, when I listened to everybody's point of view that I ever met, and then decided how I should feel. But this so-called new Liberal group, Jesus, they never listen to your point of view.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

I was a normal kid. I rebelled. But I've never been a liberal. And there have been all kinds of efforts to make me one. I've not bothered to tell any of these stories. Folks, we all face them.

I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole.

We are now, as we always have been, decidedly and conscientiously attached to the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.

I don’t have an ideology.

Liberals ... enjoy the company of other liberals, just as conservatives enjoy the company of other conservatives.

As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.

I have never knowingly dated a Republican.