Rick Perry Quotes

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

I'm as conservative as they come.

I will absolutely be supporting the Republican platform and voting for Mr. Trump.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are.

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.

Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been out there, who has offered an alternative - the person who offered an alternative, for example, is... Paul Ryan.

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.

I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

I've been a staunch Republican.

Traditional values is the last trump card the Republican party possesses.

This is the classic fight between the moderate Republicans who try to get to the middle by compromise and the conservative Republicans who try to create a new middle by driving the left away.

If ever there was a misnomer in the political lexicon, surely 'values voters' is the all-time champ. The use of this term to describe the so-called base of the Republicans' so-called party mainly refers to an extremist, ultra-conservative, strain of so-called Christian conservatives.

I am a conservative Republican from the South.

I think it's important that the Republican Party remain the home of conservatives and that the best way to advance conservative principles is to elect Republicans up and down the ballot.

As recently as 2014, I was a Paul Ryan supporter. I pounded signs and made phone calls on his behalf. I bought his book and gave it out to friends.

I would always vote for Tory candidates in the United Kingdom, and I would probably be Republican if I was an American.

The people still get to choose whether they want to support conservatives or if they want to support Mr. Trump, whose record is not conservative.