George Stephanopoulos Quotes

The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle.

The GOP establishment, in particular, is facing a pick-your-poison kind of decision. Many establishment Republicans dislike [Ted] Cruz personally. He has no Senate endorsements.

Marco Rubio was the darling of the Tea Party. Marco Rubio was elected as a Tea Party conservative Republican. Marco Rubio was sent to Washington clearly with the belief that he was part of a new conservative majority that was not tied to the establishment.

To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.

Fox News has effectively become the establishment. Fox has - you know, during non-election years, really tended to out flank the Republican Party in many ways in its conservatism and yet sort of lists back a little towards the, let's say right-center establishment type figures in part because Rupert Murdock, whose Ailes's ultimate boss over at 21st Century Fox, is a bit more pragmatic and centrist than Ailes himself.

The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They're not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is marching the Republican Party off a cliff.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.

I agree with Sen. Rand Paul on issues more than I do Mitch McConnell.

The Democrats never fight about who is more like Jimmy Carter.

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

It's not politically incorrect to say you're Republican or conservative.

Republicans have the habit of giving their possible presidential candidates a saliva test for purity, and then bitching for 4 years because they lost the last election..

The Tea Party has won. There simply isn’t that much difference between the establishment Republicans anymore, and if grassroots chalengers are loosing more races, it’s because they’ve succeeded in yanking the party far enough to the right that there isn’t any more space for them to fill.

I don't think Palin really led to Trump. Was this somehow a bit of a precursor or something? I'm willing to say, 'Maybe so.'

Conservatives looking at presidential candidates have to ask what kind of leader they want sitting in the White House.

The caricatures that the mainstream media and the Democrats have about Republicans have taken hold.

There's this fight for the heart and soul of the Republican Party, and until that fight gets settled - because they're the majority - there's a lot of things that are pretty much on hold.

I don't fit into the traditional Republican box that the wingnuts who have hijacked my party think all Republicans should.

The righties connect with Joe Beercan better than the Democrats do.

I think Republicans are going to do better than Hillary Clinton any time of the day.

If it comes to it, I am not going to stay in a party which has been taken over by the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg and Boris Johnson. They are not proper Conservatives.

The truth of the matter is President Trump brought together the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich represent the big government frugal socialist wing of the party. And I represent the true constitutional conservative wing of our party.