Mark Shields Quotes

I'm so Republican, my first name starts with 'R.' I'm so right-wing - well, Randy Weber. You do the math.

The bottom line is, there're a lot of conservatives that don't feel Donald Trump is conservative, right? Or, he's not their brand of conservatism... and there's a lot of people who don't have a seat on the inside who used to have a seat on the inside.

Look, I'm a conservative, I'm a very conservative guy, and - and the Trump campaign is making your job over at NBC really, really, really easy in terms of going after conservatives and Republicans if he's the standard bearer for conservatism.

I don't recognize this new brand of Republicanism that's afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects.

Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan.

The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C.

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

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

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

When I was younger, I thought of myself as a Nixon Republican because he was the anti-Communist.

I always start my discussions with the Tea Party groups with telling them, 'you know I have only three words for you: God. Bless. You.' Because the Tea Party's bringing the Republican party back to a more conservative base.

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

My view is that Trump will not change the Republican Party, America's right-of-center party. If he brings in new followers, that's great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.

Donald Trump may be unusually flamboyant, but his views are all too representative of the party that is about to nominate him for president.

In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.

I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

I would always vote for Tory candidates in the United Kingdom, and I would probably be Republican if I was an American.

[Donald Trump] stood up and he said, you finally have a president, you finally have a president. I am the future.And what did he get? Hosannas and huzzahs and genuflection. It was a total takeover of the conservative movement.

I used to be a conservative.

[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.

Rick Santorum is so conservative; he thinks KY Jelly is jam made in Kentucky.

The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.

Why are there so many young conservatives now serving our country? I'll tell you why? Because we grew up in an era of Reagan. And Ronald Reagan looked and acted nothing like Donald Trump and look at the Democrats.

I think there's going to be an obligation to show that Trumpism is not a complete equivalent for GOP.

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.