Gary Johnson Quotes

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

I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

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

I'm as conservative as they come.

The religious right is turning the Republican party into a revival tent.

I think that for social conservatism to make sense as a political world view, it has to have a more capacious understanding of what kind of society it wants than just saying, 'Leave us alone and let us pass laws against abortion.'

I think the Republican Party is lost in terms of whether we should be stronger on the social issues or ignore the social issues. But I think the Rand Pauls, the Ted Cruzes, that's the future of the party.

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

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

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

There's a feeling among some people that the Republican party is harsh on some things.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.

The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.

It's not politically incorrect to say you're Republican or conservative.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.