Rudy Giuliani Quotes

I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported.

The Republican Party has moved so far to the right, you can't recognize Mitt Romney. What Mitt Romney will appear in October? Mitt Romney has changed positions more often than a pornographic movie queen.

I now find my political philosophy more in line with Democrats than Republicans.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.

I have been a Republican since 1966.

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.

I’ve searched my conscience about leaving the Republican Party, and I decided it was better to change parties than to change my principles.

I was a Republican until they lost their minds.

I joined a Republican Party that was used to losing, used to being browbeaten by the Democrats. I represent a totally different style.

I have stuck my neck out to stand with a party whose ideologies are closest to mine.

As recently as 2014, I was a Paul Ryan supporter. I pounded signs and made phone calls on his behalf. I bought his book and gave it out to friends.

I think President Obama is clearly, you know, a Republican. I know, because in the 1990s I was a Republican, and he's way to the right of me, and I've hardly changed any positions.

Something really serious has shifted in the minds of Republicans and certainly others.

When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for a couple of months and then I decided that I was much more in the camp of people like, you know, President Johnson - trying to promote civil rights, voting rights, ending poverty.

I am a libertarian with a small "l" and a Republican with a capital "R". And I am a Republican with a capital "R" on grounds of expediency, not on principle.

The Republican Party is no longer the Republican Party.

Truthfully, with the Republicans, I don't see that much wrong with them.

The Democratic Party has succeeded so well that many of its members are now Republicans.

To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.

Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City policy was instituted - the idea of wrecking the environment for this generation's profit and forgetting about our gets got firmly embedded. I'm sad to say the Clinton administration didn't turn it around and the Bush administration, well, I think they're the worst administration we've ever had, and I used to be a Republican.

I've never been a politician, but , I am totally committed to the Republican Party. I feel very honored to be the front runner.

The Republican Party may be forever reconstituted and changed, which may not be a bad thing either, in and of itself.

Donald Trump needs to understand the Republican establishment - they're not going to be his friend, either.

No matter what Donald Trump does, he's guaranteed to have support from the Republican Party.