Edmund Morgan Quotes

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

I'm for making the Republican Party conservative or making it die.

Personally, I'm right of center.

Very simply, I was the original conservative.

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.

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

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.

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

I'm an ultra-conservative.

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

Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.

I put my conservatism up against anyone. I'm a pretty staunch conservative, with pretty rabid ideas about conservative values... Questioning my conservatism doesn't seem like a particularly interesting project or exercise.

I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

In the U.S the right is very wide. From Neo con's to almost Anarchist.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

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.

Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

I’m extremely conservative but I’m not mad at anybody about it.

I'm not sure what a conservative is. I don't know whether a conservative is a guy that goes to bed too early or maybe doesn't sleep long enough or just what the hell he might be. I don't know. Maybe he's a guy that - you know, he just wants to be real quiet.

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

I do think it's possible to have a conservative personality.

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

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