Clarence Thomas Quotes

Certainly I feel like I'm the tip of the arrow at times because certainly the national media wants to talk about the fact that I'm a black Republican and some people think of that as zany that a black person would be a conservative but to me what is zany is any person black, white, red, brown or yellow not being a conservative.

There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party.

I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.

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

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

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

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

The Republican Party is not inclusive.

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

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

I registered as a Republican when I turned 18 because of Ronald Reagan - he was the president at the time; I admired what he stood for. I respected him.

Growing up in the 1980s, I remember when the GOP was the party of ideas. Now it's brain dead.

I don't fit into the traditional Republican box that the wingnuts who have hijacked my party think all Republicans should.

I'm a proud Reagan conservative.

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

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

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

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.

Part of the challenge of being a black Republican anywhere is that you start off with people walking in with chips on their shoulder trying to figure out what is wrong with you.

When Reagan was elected, I felt that the Agency had gone much more into the service of a political tendency in the country with which I had already felt very strong disagreement.

In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

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

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

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.

Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Repub - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.