Tim Kaine Quotes

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

But I'm not a member of the Democratic Party. If you know anything about me, anybody who's followed me, I'm the anti-Democrat. I have railed against the Democrats for a long time.

I can't go out with a Republican.

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

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

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

Republicans are the party of 'no,' and Democrats are the party of 'don't know' because it hasn't fought for bold ideas, policies, or plans to turn us in a new direction.

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

We have Democrats saying dumb things every single day, and Republicans as well.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

I was never a Democrat but there are some Republicans who think I ought to be.

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.

My parents were Democrats, and I was a Democrat. And John Wayne was a Republican.

Republicans do not believe in identity politics.

In America today, unfortunately, the right wing has been totally commandeered by the Tea Party, and it's a bad thing for our party.

Historically, Democrats have been far more united than Republicans when it comes to policy, ideology and public debate.

For there to be any redemption of a right of center conservative party in the United States of America means the party of Trump must be destroyed politically.

As one person said to me , Republicans know [Donald] Trump is a stain on their party.

How does conservatism find its way into the body politic? I think most people actually live their lives that way, but they have been poisoned into not voting that way because the brand - conservatism brand, Republican brand - has been summarily destroyed over the years.

I don't think that Donald Trump is a conservative. In fact, you go on Fox News, and half the people say he is and half say he isn't.

To be honest, I think that Republicans love terrorism.

The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.

I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth.

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