Peter MacKay Quotes

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

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.

Any party that would put Sarah Palin up on a pedestal will never have my support.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

This President [Ronald Reagan] makes us comfortable with our prejudices.

What we need to do is bitch-slap the Republican Party. Get those guys heeding too, and if we have to, we’ll take it over to make it a true conservative party,

UKIP's biggest fight is with the Conservative Party.

The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.

It was obvious after the '97 election that as long as there were two small-c conservative parties trying to destroy each other, the Liberals would win every election.

We are fighting the communal BJP on the one hand and the corrupt Congress on the other.

Nowadays, it has become a custom to criticise the BJP for everything.

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.

I took on the leader of the globalist agenda, the leader of the Republican Party, the Koch brothers.

While Corbyn would not enjoy the comparison, he and Farage are the same beast - with very different heads.

I think the Republican Party is lost in terms of whether we should be stronger on the social issues or ignore the social issues. But I think the Rand Pauls, the Ted Cruzes, that's the future of the party.

Perhaps the biggest boost to the LePenization of French politics came from Nicolas Sarkozy. As president of France between 2007 and 2012, he actively courted FN voters and helped dismantle the 'Republican pact,' under which the two main parties had pledged to work together to defeat the FN at a national and local level.

All that Tim Kaine has is to try to convince people that conservatives are racist - and you know what, people are smarter than that.

The Freedom Caucus is very popular in my state.

I came into politics to fight lefties... That's where political fighting goes.