George McGovern Quotes

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

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

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

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

Personally, I'm right of center.

I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.

Conservatism is not about the party, because the party is merely the shell. It is the inside - it's the filling that really means something.

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

Very simply, I was the original conservative.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

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

I'm an independent conservative. And what I mean by that - when I think we're right, I'm with us all the way, and I am a conservative. And I think my record reflects that.

When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.

I wonder if these people today would think Reagan was a Reagan conservative.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

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 registered conservative.

I find some unity with Ron Paul.