Lee Zeldin Quotes

I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in that category.

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

Let's get the elephant out of the room. I'm a conservative Democrat.

I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.

It always is a battle for a Republican in Connecticut, even one who's a moderate like I am, and one who's an independent thinker.

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

Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.

I've long thought that Marco Rubio would make a strong G.O.P. candidate for president. While he was brought into office by surfing on the Tea Party wave, he has proven himself not to be wedded to the frequent lunacy of those folks.

Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets.

I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.

I'm an Angus King independent.

The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.

Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.

You know I have had Tea Party support.

I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State.

I didn't come from a traditional Tory background; it was urban and metropolitan.

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.

One thing Republican leaders, regardless of whether they love us or they hate us, have got to understand is there's no way in hell there will ever be another Republican president without the active engagement of the Tea Party masses and support of the Tea Party masses.

I'm a Republican, by the way.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.

I have never knowingly dated a Republican.

The heroes of my childhood were Martin Luther King Jr. and John F. Kennedy... but I was inspired by the ideals of our 40th president and became a Republican.

Tea Party sympathizers are more conservative on abortion policy than typical Republicans.

It was weird that I was a young person who was Republican. And I wanted to get at the heart of why it was that so many people of my generation thought that being Republican just wasn't for them. They thought that conservative ideas just weren't for them.