John Fleming Quotes

If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

Support the most conservative candidate who is electable

My party has historically nominated someone who's a mainstream conservative.

In a genuinely conservative district like mine, it's hard to out-Republican me.

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage.

I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

I'm a registered conservative.

I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote.

Ted Cruz is not the official spokesman for American conservatism. If you want somebody who has been out there, who has offered an alternative - the person who offered an alternative, for example, is... Paul Ryan.

Arizona is a red state, and we're going to keep it red.

Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate.

The future belongs to Conservatives. They are younger, they are more energetic, they dominate the party caucuses, they dominate the nominating process. They are committed to ideas, not simply personal aggrandizement or title.

Some want to rebrand the GOP, but they will never rebrand conservatives.

I grew up with parents who liked the old line that they didn't leave the Democratic Party - the Democratic Party left them.

I believe Ted Cruz is the right candidate for the right time in our country's history. A proven leader and a consistent conservative who will fight the Washington cartel and stand up for the American people.

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.

I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.

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 would always vote for Tory candidates in the United Kingdom, and I would probably be Republican if I was an American.

I am as conservative as anyone running in this [president's] race, but I am a conservative that can win. That's a big deal.

I read a lot of conservatives. They are thoughtful and intelligent and annoying, and I always read them because they have viewpoints that challenge my own, even thought they are wrong. But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him...vulgar.

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.

In terms of my own plans, I anticipate supporting one of the three, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or John Kasich as our nominee. If they don't become the nominee, then I'm probably going to go to the voting booth and find someone else who's running as a conservative or perhaps just write in the name of someone I believe should become the president of the United States, who I could be proud of and who I believe is interested in balancing the budget, keeping America safe with a strong military, and is not willing to disparage fellow Americans, Mexican-Americans, Muslims, and so forth.