Ronald Reagan Quotes

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

The more that happens that makes sure liberals and liberalism remain a minority, the better off the world is gonna be and the better off this country is gonna be.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole.

I like to say now that the reason I'm conservative is because I used to be a liberal, and I learned a lot.

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

I'm not a reactionary.

I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

All political action aims at either preservation or change.

Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed.

I don't know what Russell Moore's politics really are. I don't know if he is a closet liberal or if he is a conservative.

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.

I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.