Eliot Spitzer Quotes

It's not politically incorrect to say you're Republican or conservative.

I am so out of sympathy with what seems to be the prevailing currents of American opinion that I keep my judgment suspended as regards the political wisdom of certain [Republican] party moves

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

I say Republicans aren't right all the time. Democrats aren't wrong all the time - now, maybe most of the time, but not all the time.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much.

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

But instead, Democrats are so bent on seeing Republicans as a bunch of angry, right wing, intolerant, unreliable extremists that they have a track record of missing the mood of the country, especially the sentiment of people who don't wake up to 'The New York Times.'

The struggle you see in the Republican Party today is the country club Republican versus the bowling alley Republican. Colin Powell brings us back to the country club image. He's an insider. He's a moderate.

At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground.

To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party.

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

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

The Tea Party is almost solely grassroots-based; business interests have almost no grassroots organization. The Republican Party has for too long been run on behalf of business interests who favor candidates the grassroots hate; the minute that those candidates begin to flag, only loyal Tea Partiers stand behind them.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

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

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

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.

I'm a conservative Republican, and I'm not a member of the Tea Party Caucus, but I have very good friends that are.