Ronald Reagan Quotes

I'm not 100 percent anybody's ideological prism.

I'm not that interested in labels or litmus tests.

I am not a centrist.

I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that.

I'm actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.

The idea that liberal societies are bound together by philosophical beliefs seems to me to be ludicrous. Philosophy is not that important to politics.

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It’s a real time saver because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

Ideology knows no boundaries.

I have no exact political philosophy that I could summon up with one ism.

I didn't know a liberal from a conservative. I had a clean slate.

Not every Democratic idea is a good one; not every Republican idea is a bad one.

If it is correct to say that there will always be rightist temperaments and leftist temperaments, it is nevertheless also correct to say that political philosophy is neither rightist nor leftist; it must simply be true .

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Centrism is bogus.

In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

I'm not political and I don't judge.

The American people want to pay attention to serious ideas again. Our founding was built by people who were political philosophers, and we need to get back to that, away from this kind of cheap political rhetoric of Right and Left.

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.

I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.