Lindsey Graham Quotes

In 1980, in 1984, millions of middle-class Democrats became Reagan Democrats, and more of them drifted toward the Republicans with Bush in 1988.

I am a Reagan Republican.

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

I used to think that James Kilpatrick and Barry Goldwater were really conservative, but now we’ve got people to the right of them. They want to use government to be punitive.

Ronald Reagan gave our party a bowling alley image as opposed to a country club image. We were talking to people who go bowling on Thursday night, and they were understanding what we were saying.

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.

I have been a Republican since 1966.

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.

Barry Goldwater made conservatism so unattractive I wouldn't have voted for it myself.

The Republican Party has become something that Ronald Reagan would not recognize.

Ronald Reagan at the beginning of his political career went all around the country campaigning against Medicare.

My allegiance to the GOP was cemented during the 1980s, when I was in high school and college and Ronald Reagan was in the White House. For me, Reagan was what John F. Kennedy had been to an earlier generation: an inspirational figure who shaped my worldview.

The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.

Ronald Reagan helped me become a Republican.

I became a Republican, before I knew what a Republican even was, because of Ronald Reagan.

I would consider myself a Reagan Republican.

I'm a proud Reagan conservative.

Ted Cruz just in a different league. He understands conservatism because he is.

Ronald Reagan would have a hard time getting elected as a Republican today.

The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

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.

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

I'm a fan of Jeb Bush's.