Robert Draper Quotes

Those of us who are pro-life should demand more from Congress.

The era of resisting big government is never over.

You can't build a lasting political movement based on hostility to government.

Man is by nature a conservative animal and government is his instrument for preventing rapid change.

Fairness and the Tories always seems to be an oxymoron.

I used to think that James Kilpatrick and Barry Goldwater were really conservative, but now we’ve got people to the right of them. They want to use government to be punitive.

George W. Bush … was ideologically obsessed.

All political action aims at either preservation or change.

We’ll protest against the Drone Program in the National Assembly and then ignore it.

Mr. President, If you don’t do something and do it right away, I don’t know what is going to happen to this country.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.

The first time I began to really think about politics was in fifth grade, during President Reagan's first term.

My first passion is politics.

I'm very much engaged in the political battles, but I'm doing it as a supporter of Republicans out of conservatism rather than an active candidate.

I get if you're a conservative, and you're saying, I don't know, 'Government shouldn't be mandating what's taught in classrooms,' or, 'Government is too intrusive in our economic life,' well, that's standard conservatism.

I was fascinated, long before I joined the SNP, in the world around me; current affairs really interested me.

A lot of what you have seen with third-party groups - like the Tea Party - these folks are conservative, and they are fed up with people in Washington who are not working for them but against them.

What I don't like is when people don't like the establishment, they don't like the current government, they combat that by saying 'I don't like politics.' Go out, have your say, vote against the government. It's the most important thing.

If you want to change things, politics is the best way to do that.

I think I'm gradually becoming a more politically aware person.

Each day, I send my kids to school, and I know other members' kids should also go to school, but we do not support our schools being turned into parliaments.

My mother informed me that the way to be a change agent to create change, the first line of defense, or however you want to phrase that, is politics and government.

If you're not ruffling feathers at CPAC, I don't think you're doing a very good job.

I've always been political.