Kristen Soltis Anderson Quotes

Republican values - strong families, faith, personal responsibility and freedom, among others - are not unique to specific subsets of the electorate. They are universal values, and it is Republicans' job to remind Americans of that fact.

There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life.

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.

My friends have always known there was this more serious side to me, and all my life, I've had Conservative values.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

One needs to know what the hierarchy of values are from which one takes inspiration, and in a democratic society this is the subject of continuous democratic debate.

You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.

I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

Social conservatives say who drives the bus.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

For years now I have been talking about personal responsibility and accountability, both in our private lives and in the halls of government. Those are important principles here in Idaho, and they will form the basis of this administration.

My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.

The vast majority of politicians think they are functioning on high principle.

We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.

We recognize the nobility as the foremost defenders of liberty and of the present constitution. We charge unto the virtue, citizenship and honor of every nobleman the reverence of its sanctity and the safeguarding of its durability, as the sole bulwark of the country and of our liberties.

Traditional values is the last trump card the Republican party possesses.

It is not your great father who does this; but the laws of the country, which he and every one of his people is bound to regard.

The highest test of a people's fitness for free institutions is their willingness to obey law.