Susana Martinez Quotes

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

If we look conservative, it's because the other guys are so far to the left.

I like to say now that the reason I'm conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.

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.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.

I don't like to define myself as necessarily conservative. What is it to be a conservative? What is it to be a Republican, even?

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

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.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

I started out as a Democrat.

I do not represent the Republican Party.

Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we're odd and we're kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.

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

Many conservative assumptions are made in reaction to liberal assumptions.

George W. Bush is conservative but he is not a conservative.

I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.

I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

One criticism that I hear occassionally is that I am actually not a real liberal, and I am secretly a conservative. Or sometimes they will say I am the only thing worse than a conservative - a dreaded 'right-winger.'

I don't know that I'm as conservative as portrayed.

Republicans have always tolerated greater intellectual diversity than Democrats.