Rick Perry Quotes

I am a Conservative: I'm never going to be anything else.

I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote.

We should not just talk about conservative principles, but we should actually advance them.

My party has historically nominated someone who's a mainstream conservative.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives.

I'm as conservative as they come.

I am a conservative thinker, well known as such, outspoken as such but reasonable in my view.

I think it's important that the Republican Party remain the home of conservatives and that the best way to advance conservative principles is to elect Republicans up and down the ballot.

As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.

Nobody is more conservative in the Congress and the House than Phil Gingrey.

Conservatism, when presented in full strength at the ballot, wins at the ballot.

If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.

You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.

I am not a moderate. I am a conservative. I'm a fix-it conservative.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

Conservative politics are not an a la carte menu.

I'm more the conscience of the conservative than I am someone looking for consensus.

As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.

I'm not sure what a conservative is. I don't know whether a conservative is a guy that goes to bed too early or maybe doesn't sleep long enough or just what the hell he might be. I don't know. Maybe he's a guy that - you know, he just wants to be real quiet.

It's often been said that conservatism is successful because it chimes with these basic human instincts. It's time for us to ask fundamental questions about what the Conservative Party is for, and what it actually believes.

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