Jon Kyl Quotes

If we have George W. Bush as president, we're going to go back to the kind of policies we had when his father and Ronald Reagan were president.

I am a Reagan Republican.

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of.

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

I would consider myself a Reagan Republican.

The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.

The Tea Party folks may be sincere, loyal citizens, but their notions about how the economy works are exactly that: mere notions. Their core notion is that government needs to do nothing more than get out of the way of business in order for the economy to boom and bloom.

When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.

The Reagan years showed us that expanding economic freedom should be the North Star - the guiding light - of U.S. policy, because it is the best way to achieve sustained and broad-based prosperity for all.

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

The Reagan Revolution has had no second act.

It's not coincidental that America's vigorous recovery in the early 1980s was led by a president who worked hard to unshackle growth in the private sector.

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

I became a Republican, before I knew what a Republican even was, because of Ronald Reagan.

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate.

I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.

President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

I am a free market Republican. I am against subsidies, in most cases.

As a Republican, I am all for competition.

He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that were at times deeply injurious to the very people he swore to serve. After all, Reaganomics set in motion one of the largest wealth redistributions in American history, away from the poor and toward the rich.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

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