Sean Duffy Quotes

In terms of the conservative movement, I do think it would be foolish to deny that Trump has exposed certain aspects of that movement as less healthy than I thought or hoped.

That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.

I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.

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.

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.

The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.

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

Conservatives have the advantage of knowing how to debate each other on issues, principles, and priorities, and that is where they should engage Trump.

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

Trump was our last shot. I kind of thought it was Romney, and then lo and behold, like a miracle, Trump comes along. I still believe in Trumpism. I have no regrets for ferociously supporting him. What choice did we have?

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 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.

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

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

I just feel abandoned. And I feel, I don't feel represented by the Republican Party. I have always had to defend the social side of the Republican Party by saying that it's not the majority, that it's not their focus, when everything suggests just the opposite.

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

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

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country.

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.

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

I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.