John Fleming Quotes

Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been out there, who has offered an alternative - the person who offered an alternative, for example, is... Paul Ryan.

I'm as conservative as they come.

Look, I'm a conservative, I'm a very conservative guy, and - and the Trump campaign is making your job over at NBC really, really, really easy in terms of going after conservatives and Republicans if he's the standard bearer for conservatism.

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

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

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

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just as much a problem as some of the Democrats, and we need to elect more senators like Senator Rubio and others who will stand proudly as conservatives to do the right thing for our country.

In terms of the conservative movement, I do think it would be foolish to deny that Trump has exposed certain aspects of that movement as less healthy than I thought or hoped.

Well for sure I'm conservative.

Ted Cruz just in a different league. He understands conservatism because he is.

Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan.

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.

That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.

The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C.

I am for a huge, huge tent that espouses conservative principles.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Sarah Palin may have chosen to not answer the call for the presidency, but make no mistake, the principles that garnered her the unique support she enjoyed continue to inform and drive the base that lifted her.

I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.