Chuck Todd Quotes

I am not a neoconservative.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

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

In the 1960s, as a rising defense intellectual, Kissinger was a Nelson Rockefeller man, firmly entrenched in the center-right establishment. When he attended the infamous 1964 Republican convention in San Francisco, he was horrified by Goldwater supporters, whom he likened to fascists.

Since Ronald Reagan we have had this assumption in the United States that the Republicans are the party of the military, the Republicans are the party of patriotism, the Republicans are the party of American values.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

Few knew in 2000 that Bush was going to end up with neoconservatives all over the place. And once 9/11 happened, I think it's fair to say that eight or nine neocons have had an enormous influence. The whole solution to every problem was to go after Iraq. This had been a neoconservative mantra for ten years. There was no secret about it.

Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.'

One of the characteristics of New Labour - and Miliband is irredeemably of that species - is that, in the guise of a new liberal language, it has adopted the age-old default mode of British foreign policy, namely military intervention.

Virtually every one of the most far-right neocon Bush officials - including Dick Cheney himself - has spent years now praising Obama for continuing their terrorism policies which Obama the Senator and Presidential Candidate once so harshly denounced.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.

The Democrats are the party of war.

I’m not criticizing Richard Nixon except to say that he’s a conservative.

A neo conservative is someone who is against communism but will accept big government and socialism.

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

George W. Bush … was ideologically obsessed.

The Republican Party was threatening to close down the government and hassling President Obama about his birth certificate when he is trying to get Osama bin Laden.

George W. Bush did an incredible job in the Presidency defending us from freedom.

This is a Republican Party that does not see optimism anywhere in the world. All they see is death and threats.

There is only one Republican presidential candidate that has a proven, courageous, and conservative record on national security: Marco Rubio.

Obviously, Paul Ryan is not an 'America first' guy.

In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.

Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was.