Wendy E. Long Quotes

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

I think liberals would love to see the conservative party be more moderate, more middle of the road. I mean, my gosh, what do you call John McCain? Some would argue, what do you call Mitt Romney?

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

Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.

A liberal Republican is a contradiction in terms ... a moderate Republican is a liberal who doesn't like to call himself a liberal.

This is the classic fight between the moderate Republicans who try to get to the middle by compromise and the conservative Republicans who try to create a new middle by driving the left away.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

If we look conservative, it's because the other guys are so far to the left.

Bush is no conservative.

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

Centrism is bogus.

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more.

I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

I am not a centrist.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.