James Lankford Quotes

The Republican establishment will not help the President [Donald Trump] unless they are put on notice that there will be serious consequences if they do not support the President.

There are a lot of people whose livelihoods depend on keeping lots of conservatives terrified and ill-informed. The groups that exist to raise funds raise more funds when they endorse the crazier candidate.

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.

If George W. Bush is given a second term, and retains a Republican Congress and a compliant federal judiciary, he and his allies are likely to embark on a campaign of political retribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Richard Nixon.

Conservatives sometimes catch a tremendous about of flak from inside the Beltway - and those groups can exert extreme pressure on those conservative members to try to get them to vote in ways that are opposite of their core fundamental beliefs and the promises that they made to their constituents back in their districts.

Why should I reward someone who doesn’t like the President, so they can use funds to try to campaign against the President.

If you [members of Congress] vote against us, we're going to throw your ass out of office.

The Whigs have cast me off, and they shall repent it.

I don't care if you keep this a secret or not. I've always supported you, and I think it's time this old Republican quit hiding behind the bush [i.e. George W. Bush].

This is a struggle for the soul of the Democratic Party, which in too many cases has become so corporate and identified with corporate interests that you can't tell the difference between Democrats and Republicans

All I do is convert liberals to conservatism. That's what I do, and that's why they don't like me.

In politics, when you become serious, you become a threat to somebody. And they usually aren't too nice about it.

Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

I think President Obama is clearly, you know, a Republican. I know, because in the 1990s I was a Republican, and he's way to the right of me, and I've hardly changed any positions.

I want to go to Washington and clean up Kay Hagan's mess.

When I make decisions, it's not based on what the Republican Party does. I'm elected by the 9th congressional district.

There's no way I can run a nonpartisan organization the same time I am running for Congress.

I'm a Republican; I'd say I'm a conservative Republican. My job as RNC chair is to elect Republicans all across this country.

I've defended the Clintons longer than I've been a liberal, but I don't have any nostalgia for that.

Toronto deserves Rob Ford; they put him in office. Toronto deserves everything it gets.

I refuse to listen to Rush Limbaugh. I listen to a lot of conservative radio when I drive around in my car. I refuse to listen to him because he's just ridiculous, just a clown. I love Rachel Maddow obviously.

I got into my first fight, Democrat versus Republican, in second grade. I won.

Few Conservatives MPs have taken any pleasure from the witch-hunt against moderate Labour MPs by the hard-Left Momentum group.

Republicans are being counseled to move the party to the left, but in my experience, those who advocate more liberal policies for the GOP are wrongheaded or Democrats, or both.

In truth I care little about any party's politics—, the man behind it is the important thing.