Billy Binion, “ “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'I Have a Lot of Common Ground With Many Libertarian Viewpoints'” https://reason.com/2019/08/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-i-have-a-lot-of-common-ground-with-many-libertarian-viewpoints/, Reason magazine, (Aug. 8, 2019) from Instagram live stream (Aug. 2, 2019)
Twitter Quotes (2019), August 2019
2016, Interview with CNBC's John Harwood (August 22, 2016)
“I am a libertarian with a small "l" and a Republican with a capital "R".”
Charlie Rose Show (November 2005) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-921891628093252478&q=tvshow%3ACharlie_Rose
Context: I am a libertarian with a small "l" and a Republican with a capital "R". And I am a Republican with a capital "R" on grounds of expediency, not on principle.
South Carolina GOP convention https://listenonrepeat.com/watch/?v=14xKzja8KtE (16 May 2009), as quoted in "Lindsey Graham gets combative over GOP's future" http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/17/lindsey-graham-gets-combative-over-gop-future/ (2009), Political Thinker, State of Georgia: Cable News Network
2000s
“A libertarian is just a Republican who takes drugs.”
The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)
As quoted in "Self-publisher takes sardonic aim at all views — including his", by Linda Barnas, in The Sunday Gazette (11 November 1990), p. H7 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1957&dat=19901111&id=K3YhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=O4kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1168,3286310&hl=en
“Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.”
Source: Liberty A to Z (2004), p. 151
2016, Interview with CNBC's John Harwood (August 22, 2016)
Context: I've been a self-declared Libertarian since 1971. What was the old saying? That if you weren't a Democrat in college, you didn't have a heart. And if you weren't a Republican in later life, you didn't have a brain. Well, I happen to think libertarian kind of encompasses hearts and brains both. And that's what we all are about.
