Rick Perry Quotes

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

Having a Republican candidate speak at the NAACP convention is like trying to build a house starting at the roof. If you don't have a foundation, the roof isn't going to stand.

I think Republicans make a mistake when they seek to be 'Democrat light.'

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress.

I am not a centrist.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.

Important issues do not always split along party lines.

Left-wing confusion spawns right-wing reaction.

Governing in a polarized society means, making bipartisan deals.

I am a Republican who is prepared to compromise—and contrary to the current misconceptions, compromise is not a capitulation of one’s principles

Major parties have lived more for patronage than principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to get into power; and once in power, to arrange sufficiently satisfactory compromises of interest to remain there.

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

The Right everywhere in the world gains more by forming a security agenda while the Left gains from a social agenda.

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

Obama is not Bill Clinton. I don't think he's willing to let conservatives have any victories at all.

There are things that I can agree with from both sides: perhaps the civil libertarian issues of the Left and also the economic freedom issues of the Right while still rejecting the big-government tendencies of both sides of the political spectrum.

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

Republicans have to move to a point of greater unity.