Bill Flores Quotes

I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.

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.

I'm a conservative first, and I believe that, if we do a better job of helping Americans understand what we're trying to do, to showcase every place in the country that our ideas are working at the state level, that that will help those at the federal level who want to carry those policies.

I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

If not for the Tea Party, the Republican Party would not be coming back to its roots.

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

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

I'm as conservative as they come.

I believe in being a happy conservative: that you're happy because your policies will give people greater freedom, greater independence. But you have to explain why your policy makes life better.

Man Up and use your political capital to support the Tea Party Candidates!... If the GOP strays from the Tea Party message, the GOP is through.

We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.

I don't pass the Tea Party's purity test.

I believe that Conservatives do best when we focus on strong ideas for our future and when we leverage the strength of grassroots across the country.

We have to bring back that Reagan optimism.

We have to make conservatism cool and exciting again.

I am a proud conservative.

I think our Republican brand is an effective one and I think it fits and works here in Massachusetts.

I put my conservatism up against anyone. I'm a pretty staunch conservative, with pretty rabid ideas about conservative values... Questioning my conservatism doesn't seem like a particularly interesting project or exercise.

I'm not worried about a 'blue wave,' I just think Republicans have to act like Republicans and govern like Republicans.

The principles of conservatism include upholding the rule of law and the United Kingdom's international legal obligations.