Lindsey Graham Quotes

The Republican Party may be forever reconstituted and changed, which may not be a bad thing either, in and of itself.

Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn't leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn't leave the Republican Party; it left me.

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.

The Republican Party has moved substantially to the right of where Reagan was.

This is just not the Democratic Party we used to know.

We've changed in the sense that we flipped - and this is no longer the Republican party of Lincoln. This is the party of suppression.

The world is still changing. Faster than ever. And so should the Republican Party. Or condemn itself to a smaller and smaller base of core supporters and permanent minority status.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

Ronald Reagan could not get elected as a Republican today.

I am retiring from the Senate because I am far from my party on many issues. It would be very hard for me to win the Republican primary election for teh Senate. I don't think I have changed much. The Republican party has changed a great deal.

Movement Conservatism was a fringe force from the 1950s until the 1980s, when voters elected Movement Conservative Ronald Reagan to the White House. But even then, their control of the Republican Party was not a given.

I grew up as a Democrat in a very strong Democratic family, but I will tell you that the Democratic Party that exists in this country is not the Democratic Party I grew up around.

The real problem with the Republican Party is that for decades it has shifted constantly to the right politically. Consequently, the Republican Party is picking up a very different demographic than it used to, a less well-educated demographic of people who are more prone to authoritarianism.

There's Lindsey Graham 1.0 and then there's Lindsey Graham 2.0. I could not beat Lindsey Graham 1.0. That was the John McCain-Lindsey Graham.

I tried to salvage the situation with the Republican Party for a long time. We've had for decades a departure from the fundamental values of the Republican Party and from America.

The Republican Party is no longer the Republican Party.

The Republican Party of 2005 bears no resemblance to the Republican Party of 1994.

The Democratic Party is no longer the Democratic Party.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

I am a Reagan Republican.

The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

I knew if I waited long enough, the Republican Party would rock.

Libertarians are essentially what the Republicans were 30 years ago. Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They'd all fit more under the Libertarian label than the modern day Republican label.

I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.