Sean Duffy Quotes

The Republican party should have learned its lesson -- that it must be a conservative party.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

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

To all of you who are Republicans of long standing, I hope you appreciate that I always tried to stand for conservative values.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

Paul Ryan is a solid conservative.

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

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

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

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

I said after 2006 that Republicans didn't just lose our majority, we lost our way. I mean, our party walked away from the principles that men in our national governing majority first in 1980 and again in 1994, and the American people walked away from us.

I am a Republican because of my military background, my pro-life beliefs, my support for the Second Amendment, and my belief that government should not grow excessively.

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

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.

I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant.

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.

I'm as conservative as they come.

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.