Adolfo Aguilar Zinser Quotes

I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

I didn't want to engage in a campaign where I was defending myself on those issues at every turn, so I just decided that I'd switch and run as a Republican.

I’ve searched my conscience about leaving the Republican Party, and I decided it was better to change parties than to change my principles.

I was a Republican until they lost their minds.

The politician may change sides so frequently as to find himself always in the majority, but most politicians have a preference for one party to the other

Traditional Conservative voters like me should lend their support to the Liberal Democrats but I think I am best placed to run as an independent.

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.

Arlen Specter left the GOP because it is a lot easier to win in Pennsylvania as a Democrat than as a Republican. It is that simple. For folks on the Right to brush this off as some sort of 'good purge' is extremely naive.

I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

John Boehner was and is an unprincipled ward-heeler who simply couldn't weather the transition of the Republican Party from a corporatist party with a sizable conservative base to a purely conservative party.

Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors.

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

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.

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

I'm a solid Labour party supporter. I aspired to be a Labour MP, but it's difficult to make the leap from the Foreign Office.

If Democrats were good at thinking like Republicans, they would see the light and stop being Democrats.

I have not yet met the politician who did not start to dream of the next highest office the minute that he was sworn in.

Politics are now nothing more than the means of rising in the world.

There are more non-committee chairmen than there are committee chairmen. And the non-committee chairmen want to be chairmen some day. They will not eliminate term limits on existing committee chairmen.

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.

We didn't leave the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left us.

I realize that some folks might not believe me in this - I didn't run for Congress on the hopes that one day you're going to run for something else.

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

I wasn't a party apparatchik. I think too many of today's people in both parties come forward, university, 'What party will I join? Oh, yes, I know somebody here. I might get a job working for this member or for that shadow minister or minister.'

I have no desire to run for public office.