Christopher Buckley Quotes

I'm a conservative Republican.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

I am a proud conservative.

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition; they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

I'm as conservative as they come.

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

If you want a politically incorrect conservative, that's me.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

Very simply, I was the original conservative.

I've always been a conservative first.

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 registered conservative.

I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.

I'm a conservative - a practicing one. I'm not a talk-about-it one.

Conservative politics are not an a la carte menu.

By definition, conservatives struggle with change.

Real conservatives are in favour of all kinds of unelected power and authority.

The country badly needs to have a right-of-center political party, grounded in traditional values that the Republican Party represented till it didn't.

I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in that category.

I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.

Romney has adopted almost every position conservatives want their candidate to espouse: He's pro-life, he wants to repeal ObamaCare, he wants to cut taxes and cut the federal budget, and he wants an unapologetic foreign policy dedicated to the proposition that this too will be the American century.

Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.

The Republicans have a very traditional focus over and over again whether or not it's worked.