Dana Loesch Quotes

Don't get me wrong, I am a proud Republican, and I want to support my party. I am a firm believer in the Republican principles of smaller government, low taxes and economic freedom. I have spent my time in government service fighting for these principles.

I do think a focus on fiscal restraint is a central element of the Tea Party, and thank goodness for it!

Today it is evident that we have two political parties: the Tax and Spenders and the No-Tax and Spenders. Neither party is fiscally conservative. Is there no room at the inn for an honest conservative? A conservative who makes the case for smaller government on its merits and not just as the fallback option when fiscal bankruptcy threatens?

I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do.

Fortunately, good policy, true principles, and effective leadership work whenever they are tried. When we reduce government, balance budgets, and keep taxes as low as possible, states respond in a positive way.

I would bring the government back to what it was intended to be - a plain economical government.

We have proven that conservative principles work: less taxes, less government, and more freedom.

I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

You know I have had Tea Party support.

Today, grass-roots Republicans want to drink a bottle of 2010 small-government wine, but our candidates were bottled in another era, before the tea party's ideas took root.

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.

Limited government, low taxes, controlled spending and debt, and a restrained regulatory environment make Texas work.

You know, I like to think that I will subscribe very much to the core Republican principles of small government. Making a small number of rules and getting out of the way. Keeping taxes low. Creating an environment for small businesses to grow and thrive.

What I owe the Tea Party is to be the conservative voice they elected me to be.

So, a lot of my supporters back home are members of the Tea Party.

The slogan of the moderate Republican Party is this: we are rich, and we are not going to take it any more.

And my principles go right in line with the Tea Party.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.

I've always been about less government.

The Tea Party has imparted political energy to common-sense American constitutionalism.

My political views have since I was a kid someway or another reflected the concerns of Tea Party movement.