Rick Perry Quotes

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

I'm as conservative as they come.

I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

We should not just talk about conservative principles, but we should actually advance them.

I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.

I am a proud conservative.

I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.

I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.

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

I've always been a conservative first.

I'm an independent conservative. And what I mean by that - when I think we're right, I'm with us all the way, and I am a conservative. And I think my record reflects that.

There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

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.

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.

I've always been conservative. I was born that way.

I do think it's possible to have a conservative personality.

I believe in a core set of fundamental Republican values.

I'm known as a small-c conservative.