Doug Ducey Quotes

Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.

During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush.

Europe’s conservative parties, like Republicans in the United States, have for the most part, turned into shrill apostles of austerity at almost any social cost.

We’re in a world now where the Republicans have a brand: “No Taxes”. It’s as much a part of their ideology as right to life is for Catholic bishops.

I had been born a Republican. My dad was an active Republican, but he was not active in politics and I really never was either. It's true that I did belong to that party, but it really had very little impact on my public work or my private views.

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

We say Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation.

I would consider myself a Reagan Republican.

Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore.

The Republicans have a very traditional focus over and over again whether or not it's worked.

There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.

I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

I was a Reagan backer. It was a shock for some people that I could agree with anything that man would say.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

I am a Reagan Republican.

Truth be told, except for foreign policy, Ron Paul's voting record and mine are virtually identical and I wear it as a badge of honor.

The excitement right now is coming from the Liberty movement. And the Republicans want a piece of it.

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.

When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

The Republican Party is either going to return to the party of fiscal responsibility and consistent conservative principles as it was under Ronald Reagan, or it will continue down the path of 'sporadic moderation.'

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.