Mario Cuomo Quotes

There are some Republicans in Congress who have leaned so far to the right, that they could fall out of the Capitol.

I'm choosing not to accept the Trumpification of the GOP as an irreversible fact.

George W. Bush … was ideologically obsessed.

This is the classic fight between the moderate Republicans who try to get to the middle by compromise and the conservative Republicans who try to create a new middle by driving the left away.

When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

Barry Goldwater made conservatism so unattractive I wouldn't have voted for it myself.

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

I suppose we could say of Gen. Cameron that he is not Democrat enough to hurt him.

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

In the last several years, I have been troubled by the right shift of the Republican party too far to the right.

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.

I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil.

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.

When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a poet or a plumber - to the Beltway version, in which the only aspects of the issue that matter are the effects it will have on the fortunes of the two parties and the various men in power.

Dave Camp has been very much influenced by, and often guided by, the radicalization of the Republican Party... and too often failed to speak out.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.