Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

I didn't suddenly become conservative. It was only the label that changed.

I like to say now that the reason I'm conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.

I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.

I am a conservative Republican, but I didn't start out that way. I was raised as a Democrat.

There is no denying or hiding the fact that over the years I moved from well on the right of the Conservative Party, much much more to its left, and therefore to the centre of the poltical spectrum.

I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.

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.

Some want to rebrand the GOP, but they will never rebrand conservatives.

I have gone from a Barry Goldwater Republican to a New Democrat, but I think my underlying values have remained pretty constant; individual responsibility and community. I do not see those as being mutually inconsistent.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

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

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

The Republican Party has become something that Ronald Reagan would not recognize.

Liberalism has never done as well as it thinks at resolving its own crises.

A lot of us were wondering, what is Trump really going to be like? He used to support Democrats and have various views earlier in his life about politics.

We have seen a major decomposition of French political life, of the old political mainstream parties, and what we see now is a real new configuration which is emerging between the patriots and the new liberals.

I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style.

If we look conservative, it's because the other guys are so far to the left.

I didn't come up through the ranks of the conservative movement... I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent.

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

I pivoted from a pro-Trump guy to more of a journalistic guy, and I'm going to keep making that pivot. So whenever people think of me as, like, a pro-Trump guy, I don't want people to think of me as a pro-Trump guy anymore.

I look at my own party, and I see that we've taken this technocratic, academic, elitist liberal class philosophy as far as it can go, and we got our butts kicked - and I don't know what else to do other than get involved myself.