Maxime Bernier Quotes

What’s the use of getting elected or getting re-elected if you don’t stand for anything …. I fully realize that this is the termination of my political career.

The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles.

I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.

You've got to be known for what you're running on, what principles.

The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.

If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.

It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.

A centre party would have no roots, no principles, no philosophy and no values.

The politician must always tell people what they want to hear.

The most important question ask any candidate is, "what issue do you believe in that will most greatly offend the leadership of your party or your campaign contributors?

I’ve searched my conscience about leaving the Republican Party, and I decided it was better to change parties than to change my principles.

Choose the politics of principle over the politics of personality.

This will not be disloyalty but will show that as members of a party they are loyal first to the fine things for which the party stands and when it rejects those things or forgets the legitimate objects for which parties exist, then as a party it cannot command the honest loyalty of its members.

Highly popular and unpopular Presidents do not engage in policy pandering.

The more Democrats try to abandon the values and policies embodied in our platform, the more we will continue to lose. We can't win by running on incrementalism.

Fine Gael needs to be Fine Gael and needs to stand its ground. It should not sacrifice its politics for position in government.

[Barack] Obama seems to have no firm principles that I can discern that he will adhere to.

My decision to leave the Democrat Party was one that was not entered into lightly. The pressure of party bosses, activists, and even my colleagues, was great, but the Democrat Party has changed. It is no longer the party that my grandparents and I grew up admiring.

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.

But I'm not particularly aligned with the Democratic Party's policy agenda.

Looks are just something on the surface. I think the electorate is more discerning than that. They want to know your stand on policies.

When I chose to run for public office, I pledged to stand with the people of Nevada rather than follow a partisan line.

My political stand is beyond my family.

I tried to salvage the situation with the Republican Party for a long time. We've had for decades a departure from the fundamental values of the Republican Party and from America.

There are only two kinds of people in the modern world who know what they are after. One, quite frankly, is the Communist. The other, equally frankly, is the convinced Christian. The rest of the world are amiable nonentities.