Matt Rosendale Quotes

What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.

I'm a conservative. I believe in the idea of freedom and liberty, but more importantly, look at my voting background. I voted against bailing out Wall Street. I voted against, never voted for, a tax increase.

The Tea Party is simply a loose description of local activism driven by Americans who want smaller government and more self-reliance. That sounds like what the Founding Fathers had in mind, does it not?

I'm a Conservative. I don't believe there should be too many rules. There should be lower taxes.

Don't get me wrong, I am a proud Republican, and I want to support my party. I am a firm believer in the Republican principles of smaller government, low taxes and economic freedom. I have spent my time in government service fighting for these principles.

The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

Dick Armey is an economic conservative. He is not a social conservative. He doesn't like to talk about marriage and about the unborn child, the sanctity of life and things like that. He wants to talk about smaller government.

Ever since college, I have been a libertarian - socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I believe in individual liberty and personal responsibility.

Hey, I'm a libertarian. I think out of control spending messes up everything.

I've got the conservative ideas for putting our country back on track.

We have proven that conservative principles work: less taxes, less government, and more freedom.

Folks know that while I respect Barack Obama and do not cheap-shot the president, I am very skeptical of his big government, nanny-state philosophy.

As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.

And my principles go right in line with the Tea Party.

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.

We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.

The Tea Party claims to want small government.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

Less government, less regulation, lower taxes.

Our funding is based on our support of ideas like limited government, individual rights and a strong defense.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.