Erin O'Toole Quotes

I'm a conservative first, and I believe that, if we do a better job of helping Americans understand what we're trying to do, to showcase every place in the country that our ideas are working at the state level, that that will help those at the federal level who want to carry those policies.

I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.

I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.

I've always been a conservative first.

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.

We are a grassroots party. We always have been. That's been the strength of the GOP.

Since the presidency of Ronald Reagan, conservatives have succeeded by adhering to a platform that rests firmly on three legs: smaller government, faith and family, and a strong national defense. These three legs do not merely represent a political coalition; they are three necessary components of a strong and secure America.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.

What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.

I'm a conservative Republican.

Myself, I'm a post-ideological conservative.

We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say.

Conservatives are the heirs to the Founders' vision. But we have to act like it.

I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.

The anti-big-government movement is pure. Its participants represent something close to what used to be considered normative in this country.

It is important that we take full advantage of the RSC's size, character and the passion of its members to advance our conservative agenda in order to restore America to the 'shining city on a hill' that Ronald Reagan envisioned.

Conservative beliefs are not based on personal whims or feelings or polls but rather anchored in defensible core, time-tested positions. It's what makes a conservative somewhat boring compared to the liberal, independent, or populist.

We have to make conservatism cool and exciting again.

I am a proud conservative.

I believe in what I believe, and I think after all these years I've heard a lot of arguments, and I'm convinced by the superiority of the arguments that are made on the conservative side. I think that's a better way to run a society.