Will Rogers Quotes

I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

The Democratic Party has pretty much abandoned all the things that they cherish.

I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.

I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.

I am a conservative Republican, but I didn't start out that way. I was raised as a Democrat.

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

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.

There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum.

Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.

The billionaire who sits on his money and doesn't do anything for the common good - I'm not interested in that person.

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

The worst enemy of the new radicals are the old liberals.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

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.

America today is going to the left and not to the right.

How did the progressive Republican Party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Eisenhower become the reactionary party of Ronald Reagan, the tea party and Paul Ryan? There is nothing random about these ideological shifts. They reflect the party’s — and the nation’s — central unresolved problem: the tension between equality of opportunity and protection of private property.

A lot of us were wondering, what is Trump really going to be like? He used to support Democrats and have various views earlier in his life about politics.