John Fleming Quotes

In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.

I'm a Republican and I'm gonna stay a Republican because they need somebody like me to stay in the Party and keep hammering away.

The Republican Party is a composition of the members of the party and not just the leadership.

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.

I would not run as a one-issue candidate. Anybody who does that is declaring himself to be marginal.

I belong to the Democratic Party.

The Republican Party will never again be a majority party until we regain the confidence of the American people. I believe there is room for disagreement within the party, and we should not have litmus tests.

Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.

You're considered to have a rare kind of social disease if you espouse neo-conservative ideas in Canada.

The American people will always be progressive as well as conservative.

All Fundamentalists are conservatives, but not all conservatives are Fundamentalists. The best conservatives can often give lessons to the liberals in true liberality of spirit, but the Fundamentalist program is essentially illiberal and intolerant.

The real fight is within the Republican Party to get it to nominate grassroots-type candidates who the public wants, and not just some 'echo' of the other side.

I've reached out to independents and minorities that have traditionally voted Democrat but that are conservative on a lot of questions. We talk to young people, folks that typically aren't voting on a consistent basis. I'm proud of that.

In a genuinely conservative district like mine, it's hard to out-Republican me.

I'm excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to 'The Cycle.'

I became an MP in 2017 and have been around to watch Liberal Democrat party membership soar.

Tea Party to establishment from social conservative to libertarian, we all - what people want more than anything is they don't just want a fighter. They want someone who fights and wins.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

I am a conservative. I have said I don't know how many times, conservatism is an intellectual pursuit. And by that I mean liberalism's easy. Liberalism is the most gutless, easy choice. It's not even a choice. Liberalism is just, you feel it. And there's nothing hard about it at all. You don't even have to do anything. You just have to notice suffering and talk about how it. And you're a great, big-hearted, compassionate person.

I don't recognize this new brand of Republicanism that's afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects.

The base that Donald Trump is speaking to are not that conservative, at least not the way conservatives have defined themselves.

Why are there so many young conservatives now serving our country? I'll tell you why? Because we grew up in an era of Reagan. And Ronald Reagan looked and acted nothing like Donald Trump and look at the Democrats.

Government is the enemy of conservatism and freedom.

We actually need conservatives to be better conservatives and we need liberals to be better and stronger liberals.

I am proud to be a conservative ... but I am also proud throughout my life to have attracted the support and the love and affection of people from all over America and all parts of it.