The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative…

“The radical philosophy offered, for many African Americans, the most promise. It was predicated on a searing critique of large corporations, particularly railroads, and…

— Michelle Alexander

Well, I think the Republican Party is the more populist party.

— Ed Gillespie

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

— Mara Liasson

“The reason Limbaugh gets so much airtime is pretty obvious: people like him. He is a principled conservative with a populist foundation, and he…

— Tammy Bruce

The truth of the matter is President Trump brought together the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

— Reince Priebus

The other theory of the case - and it's not just one that people opposed to him politically believe, but also people who share…

— Chris Hayes

The Republican Party has become more conservative. The Democratic Party has become marginally more liberal. There's almost no overlap in the middle, ideological overlap,…

— Michael Gerson

I think Donald Trump is a pragmatic sort of populist and who tell people anything in any moment that he wants them to hear,…

— Ben Domenech

The lesson is that voters in both parties are in a very anti-establishment, populist mood. Hillary Clinton is the establishment candidate.

— Mara Liasson

Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, "taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power." History taught the same to many conservative…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides…

— Robert A. Heinlein

America is fundamentally conservative. People want a strong national defense. They want low taxes. They want individual freedoms. There's no doubt that the Republican…

— Liz Cheney

The Tea Party movement is a wide and diverse group. It will hurt the Republican Party if some elements of the Tea Party decide…

— Karl Rove

The Republican Party is either going to return to the party of fiscal responsibility and consistent conservative principles as it was under Ronald Reagan,…

— Todd Tiahrt

It's fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.

— Mitt Romney