Top 72 Quotes & Sayings by Charlie Sykes - Page 2

I don't think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man without any fixed principles. And to the extent he does have any ideology, it owes far more to European-style National Front right-wing politics than to American conservatism.

I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes.

I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution.

I think of John McCain as a conservative, but he is clearly not the same kind of 'conservative' as, say, Rand Paul. The word is close to losing almost all meaning.

The shock of Trumpism has made me rethink what the conservative movement was about and who our allies were and what our assumptions were.

It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.

I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.

Reagan did not have to rely on or cope with talk radio, Fox News, Breitbart, or any of the other trolls that now dominate conservative politics.

There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right.

After 2008, I told people that conservatives were going to be invisible for a while. But, with time, our ideas would be back.

Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism - a much darker view, I think, of the world.

It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest.