Tom Metzger Quotes

There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

I like to say now that the reason I'm conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.

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.

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.

A lot of us were wondering, what is Trump really going to be like? He used to support Democrats and have various views earlier in his life about politics.

I am a conservative Republican, but I didn't start out that way. I was raised as a Democrat.

I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don't think that I've moved left - I think the country has moved right.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

I started out as a Democrat.

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

We started out as far to the left as we could.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

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

There’s something deeply cultural about changing parties …. radio announcers and journalists can change either newspaper or radio or television stations and footballers can change teams, but there seems to be a deeper cultural thing about the notion of [political] defection, even if you haven’t changed your values along the way.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.

I was raised a Democrat, and now I'm an Independent.

I didn't suddenly become conservative. It was only the label that changed.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.

Bush is no conservative.