Ari Melber Quotes

When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.

The religious right is turning the Republican party into a revival tent.

I'm a pro-life Roman Catholic conservative, always have been.

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

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.

Why do Tea Party backers oppose abortion at higher rates than their traditional GOP cohort? Religion.

I was Tea Party years before there was an official Tea Party.

Independence doesn't - doesn't equate to moderates. Millions of independents are pro-life. Millions of independents believe marriage is between a man and a woman.

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

Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in.

I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

Moral Majority, n. Neither

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

The sexual fundamentalists have taken over the control of the Republican Party.

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

By supporting Reagan, evangelicals were not supporting womanizing or divorce, but they were endorsing Reagan's policies.

Once the religious right got their beachhead in the Republican Party in 1980, they expanded it. Even Barry Goldwater was extremely hostile to the religious right, but Reagan catered to them. The religious right then expanded their base and that drove the moderates out.

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

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

I think the real place where most evangelicals have trouble with the Democratic Party is on the issue of abortion.

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

In America, evangelical churches have often been bastions of conservatism, providing support for the status quo.

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

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.