Stockwell Day Quotes
In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.
Day, Stockwell. "Address to the Heritage Foundation." The Heritage Foundation, 2004.
When the Republican Party was first founded, they had a disproportionate share of educated people. This was generally true until the Great Depression and the Hoover administration. After the Republican “Southern Strategy in the 1960s, the “solid” Democratic South became Republicans and drove the party far to the right. The party leaders began to scorn intellectuals and scientists. By 2000, a large majority of the most educated Americans were voting Democratic rejecting the extremism of the then Republican Party.
Stockwell Burt Day Jr. PC is a Canadian former politician, and a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He is a former cabinet minister in Alberta, who later served as leader of the Canadian Alliance from 2000–01. Day was MP for the riding of Okanagan—Coquihalla in British Columbia and the president of the Treasury Board. He was widely seen as a prominent voice for social conservatives within the Conservative Party. On March 12, 2011, Day announced that he would not be seeking re-election in the 2011 federal election.
