Cory Gardner Quotes

Confronting Republicans can definitely mobilize a disaffected Democratic base.

The Democratic Party is getting very angry, and that came through clearly in this election.

Republicans are so far out to the right, it's pushing people into the Democratic Party.

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.

Let's stand up. Let's speak with pride about our morals and our values and redouble our effort to elect more conservative Republicans.

There are lots of bad Republicans, there are no good Democrats.

Even if I was a Republican, George Bush would have pushed me out of that party.

This is probably the greatest thing that I have ever accomplished but I fear that we Democrats have lost the South for the rest of my lifetime and probably you lifetime as well.

There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise, and they are doing everything they can to derail the conservative agenda

The people who show up at the early primaries are very passionate and not much interested in compromise.

I don't in any way think the American people rejected the Republican Party, or we'd be in a lot worse shape than we are.

The Tea Party has definitely increased political involvement, not only among Tea Party members but among people who oppose the Tea Party members. It's been a general stimulus.

Curiously, many Democrats have acceded to Clintonism not because of their cold practicality and political professionalism, but because the Clintons are the sworn enemy of the right. The Clintons, in other words, while hardly being left, have been defined as the opposite of being right - the enemy of my enemy being my friend.

Personally, I find the decisions and actions of my Tory colleagues appalling, but I also know plenty of Labour voters who are less than perfect.

I'm a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd.

The 2016 election unquestionably deepened the divide between liberals and conservatives.

I've had problems with the Republican establishment in the past.

I'm of the school that you've got to show a distinction between Democrats and Republicans. And in order to have the base energized, you've got to show that the party stands for something.

I don't dig Trump or follow what he has to say, but I find it fascinating that he's surfaced in the political arena. But I'm a Hillary supporter, and I don't go the Trump way.

Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help.

The Republicans have bought into the idea that people hate them because they're opposed to everything.

It wasn't until Trump won that I thought back to all the things that I dealt with in the White House and that President Obama dealt with - the political forces, the changes in media and technology, the radicalization of the Right.

We don't believe there is a functional conservative party in this country, and we certainly don't think the Republican Party is that.

There is so much partisan and tribal politics, from not just those seeking office but potential voters as well, that we never get real attempts at solutions to problems.

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.