John Bercow Quotes

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

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

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

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

I am a conservative Republican, but I didn't start out that way. I was raised as a Democrat.

I like to say now that the reason I'm conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.

I was a Democrat for a period of time early on. And then I was also an independent. And then I became a Republican.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

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

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

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

I am not nor ever have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

Some want to rebrand the GOP, but they will never rebrand conservatives.

A lot of us were wondering, what is Trump really going to be like? He used to support Democrats and have various views earlier in his life about politics.

We have seen a major decomposition of French political life, of the old political mainstream parties, and what we see now is a real new configuration which is emerging between the patriots and the new liberals.

I didn't suddenly become conservative. It was only the label that changed.

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 was more conservative when I was younger. But I don't think that I've moved left - I think the country has moved right.

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.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

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

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.