Meghan McCain Quotes

I'm a right-wing fiscal conservative and a social liberal.

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

I'm a Bill Clinton social Republican.

You have to be careful as a libertarian because you can sound very Republican.

The real boneheads are the libertarians.

Fiscally I'm very conservative... others say that I'm socially moderate.

I'm a Democrat, and I think people who meet me will realize I'm a Democrat. I have progressive Democratic values.

The truth is, I am conservative, but socially, I'm very liberal.

It always is a battle for a Republican in Connecticut, even one who's a moderate like I am, and one who's an independent thinker.

If I was to describe myself in terms of a political philosophy, I'd cast myself as a social and economic liberal, which is typically what people describe as being left-of-centre on social issues and right-of-centre on economic issues.

I'm fiscally conservative but socially moderate. A moderate Republican - there just aren't many of us left.

I am from an F.D.R. liberal-Democratic family. With proximity to government, I have become more libertarian.

I think, as Republicans, we need to stick by what we believe in. And that is fiscal conservatism and individual freedom.

So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.

"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism.

It is liberalism, whether people like it or not, which has animated all the years of my life. What on Earth did conservatism ever accomplish for our country?

I just consider myself a Republican, none of this hyphenated stuff. I was a mainstream conservative Republican, and most people are in that category.

I think it's very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you're back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you'd join us as well.

Yes, I'm of the old guard, liberal Republican.

I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.

In my view, as a country we need to rediscover some of that skepticism about government and revisit that libertarian agenda.

I think Democrats often hold the unconstrained vision, and Republicans focus more on the Rule of Law.

I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State.

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.