Mike Gallagher Quotes

The future of the Republican Party should be tapping into... the feeling of belonging and meaning and pride that comes with being part of this whole 'America First' movement.

I think that a good portion of the 'Institutional Left' hates the building blocks of America.

I want everybody to know I'm approachable. I'm a true conservative, but I'm an American first.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.

We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.

Back under Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale, times were tough. [American] Flags weren't selling that well. [During the Reagan-Bush years] Flag slaes have taken off.

Victorian values…were the values when our country became great.

I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.

As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.

I'm a simple small 'c' conservative who believes in public service, serving others, and doing a good job for my country.

The problem with some of our noisier exponents of 'American exceptionalism' is that they lack Reagan's moral maturity.

I happen to think that the Latino audience is an essentially traditional audience and will go to Fox News for traditional American values.

Have you ever noticed how hell-bent liberals are at making the United States seem inferior to other countries... to any country?

Let's not forget that the essential message of a Republican candidate is a tricky sell. That you love America, but hate all the groups that make up America. That you love democracy, but hate people.

Most of us agree that the United Nations is the vanguard of a foreign invasion and must be driven from our shores. Liberalism - Progressivism - all forms of left wing collectivism, are equally alien to the Founders' America and must be extirpated, root and branch, laughter and derision being the most effective weapons. Look at the way they have reduced Hillary Clinton to an insignificant greasy spot on the pages of history, turned Albert Gore into an object of merriment, and are accomplishing the same for Barry and Micky Obama.

I am an old-fashioned, honest-to-goodness, flag waving patriot.

Putin has been - and with a lot of the groups, the conservative groups, the more extreme conservative groups that underlie Trump, he's a bit of a hero because he speaks for traditional values, he's against the global institutions.

The vision Donald Trump has articulated to Make America Great Again means a stronger America at home and abroad.

The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.

There is no patriotic art.

Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out; it becomes a dead word in the vocabulary-a blank counter, to be moved to any part of the game; and that flag which, streaming from the mast-head of our ship of state, striped with martyr-blood, and glistening with the stars of lofty promise, should always indicate our worldwide mission, and the glorious destinies that we carry forward, is bandied about in every selfish skirmish, and held up as the symbol of every political privateer.