H. W. Brands Quotes

It's time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.

We have to bring back that Reagan optimism.

Conservatives have always been forthright about our views, whether they brought defeat in 1964 or victory in 1980.

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

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

I don't pass the Tea Party's purity test.

I became a Republican, before I knew what a Republican even was, because of Ronald Reagan.

Conservatism accomplished a lot of its goals in the latter part of the 20th century. What does 21st-century conservatism look like?

I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.

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

I am a Reagan Republican.

I'm an independent conservative. And what I mean by that - when I think we're right, I'm with us all the way, and I am a conservative. And I think my record reflects that.

Make no mistake about it. These are not 'kookie' birds. Right now the greatest player, the big tent on the political scene in America, is called the Tea Party movement.

The Republican Party is either going to return to the party of fiscal responsibility and consistent conservative principles as it was under Ronald Reagan, or it will continue down the path of 'sporadic moderation.'

You know I have had Tea Party support.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

Actually, I consider myself to be pretty politically conservative.

I consider myself a Republican.

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

In many respects, I guess I would say I was into Tea Party before there was a Tea Party.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

Actually, I'm a Republican.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher, was a precursor to the American Tea Party.