I think I can do more inside the Republican Party to keep it in the center of the road. That's where Eisenhower was. And I'm an unabashed Eisenhower Republican.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand of Republicanism that is being so vocally promoted today.
As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican. For 50 years, through the election of 2000, I was.
I've been a Republican since age 13, when we got our first television set, and I saw the Republican National Convention on television. And President Eisenhower was talking about personal responsibility, about opening the door for opportunity and that people could really take care of themselves without a lot of government intrusions.
I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.
I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.
I am very much a Republican.
I'm a Republican. I may go into politics myself.
I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.
I have been a Republican since 1966.
I am a Reagan Republican.