Maxime Bernier Quotes

I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.

As conservatives, we know our principles, and we also know the best ideas do not always come from Washington.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.

I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

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

I believe in a core set of fundamental Republican values.

No matter what the issue is, conservative principles are always better for people than big-government, liberal principles.

At the end of the day, every member of the conservative movement, from our political commentators and thinkers to our elected officials, share an important and common purpose in advancing the cause of liberty, reigning in a bloated federal government, and defending our traditional family values.

We need a consistent conservative, someone who has stood for free market principles, who has stood for the Constitution and, critically, who stood for the working men and women of this country.

Well, look, I'm as Tea Party as it gets.

I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for.

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

I'd say I'm a true conservative. Liberals have got a monopoly on protecting the environment, or all the cool technology, and I don't think we should cede that territory.

I've always been a conservative first.

I represent what I think is a traditional Republican... a limited government, fiscal responsibility, strong national defense, individual freedom and liberty.

There's room in the Republican Party for anyone who wants to be a part of the values that we espouse when it comes to the role of government, free enterprise, free markets.

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

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

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation.