Rick Perry Quotes

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

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

We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.

I'm a proud Republican - there's no issue with that at all, so why can't I be a proud Republican and just try to solve problems?

This is the classic fight between the moderate Republicans who try to get to the middle by compromise and the conservative Republicans who try to create a new middle by driving the left away.

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,

I think the Republican Party has moved substantially to the right, particularly on social issues... And the Democratic Party has moved to the left over the past decades. So we've got a lot more room in the middle.

In the Trump era, the Left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the Right has abandoned by its embrace of the president.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

While their fiscal views aren't mine, the moderates are the last reasonable voice in the current Republican Party.

Republicans have said much worse things about me than any Democrat ever has.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

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

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

For decades Republicans have made policy with a higher purpose in mind: to solidify the GOP base or to damage the institutions and movements aligned with the other side.

I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.

We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?

I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

I took a lot of heat from Republicans when I stepped out of John McCain's campaign after the 2008 primaries. I still supported McCain, and voted for him, but I just didn't want to be the tip of the spear attacking Obama.

Our party cannot be all things to all people. It can't be. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's stop trying to curry favor with them.

Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.