Roger Stone Quotes

• I do a lot of referendums. They can’t talk back. They don’t have wives. They don’t have friends who tell you how to run the campaign. They are supported by special interests, so there’s a lot of money in them.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Special

• Money is speech. It’s incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It’s absurd.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Money, Uncategorized

  Tags in Different

• A 527 doesn’t have a wife. It doesn’t have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn’t like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It’s the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Wife, Perfect

• I get blamed for things I have nothing to do with.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Blamed

• I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don’t believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Die

• I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays. It was my first political trick.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Political

• Big brother listening in on your phone calls – I got a problem with that.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problem

• How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We’re supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom

• I’m a total Republican, but I’ve never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They’re a large but dwindling part of the Party.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Republican

• I am a Reagan Republican.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Republican

• I am a Libertarian Republican in the Goldwater style.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Republican

• I never owned a pair of blue jeans until I met my second wife.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wife

• Let’s be very clear, if you check the F.E.C. records you will see I am supporting George W. Bush.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Clear, Records

• Of course a lot of the journalists hated Nixon, but they were always blown away by how smart he was.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Smart, Hated

• Nobody ever built a statue to a committee.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ever, Committee

• Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came from.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come, Words

• If you’re not controversial, you’ll never break through the din of all the commentary.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Break

• In this business, if you don’t pay your debts you’re finished.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Business

• If you have to drag somebody to register, they’re not highly motivated.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Motivated

• The reason I’m a Nixonite is because of his indestructibility and resilience. He never quit.

  Roger Stone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reason, Quit

Roger Stone (29)

Birth:	1952
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Politician

About

Roger J. Stone, Jr. is a celebrated American political consultant, lobbyist and strategist, noted for his use of opposition research, usually for candidates of the Republican Party. He is currently a member of the Libertarian Party, recently working on Gary Johnson's run for president in 2012.

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