Paul Begala Quotes

Our political system is based on two parties fighting to capture the middle. Unfortunately the Republican party has been captured by conservative extremists.

George W. Bush … was ideologically obsessed.

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

The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.

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.

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

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

The left hand of the right wing.

I do not think that the social conservative movement have the ability to elect a President but they have the ability to block.

Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

Too often on social issues my party has painted an image of America as slouching towards Gomorrah.

This President [Ronald Reagan] makes us comfortable with our prejudices.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is like the difference between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dummer.

When you are working a Republican crowd, and want to throw out some red meat, you can’t do any better than jumping on Ted Kennedy.

By catering ever more abjectly to the noisy, reactionary extremists of our party who are determined to impose their sectarian views and morality on the rest of us, the GOP’s vulnerability among moderate voters, particularly women, continues to intensify.

There is nothing wrong with God, and the flag is good as is the family, but what I resent is that the Republicans use these as a cover for their support of big money.

The special interests drive both parties to their extremes.

You do not compromise with the right wing of the Republican party.

The liberals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the instruments of Satan to destroy the former great principles of these two political parties.

I was raised a Republican but I don’t recognize a once proud party that has been hijacked by extremists who are driving it off the flat earth that they pretend we are living on.

This difference between the two parties covers a wide range, and is indicative of the conservative thought of the one and the progressive thought of the other.

The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now strongly swayed by the Tea Party movement, whose clarion call is a refusal to compromise regardless of the practical consequences.

The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.

The Freedom Caucus is very popular in my state.

Republicans are scared of the NRA. They're scared of the Tea Party.