Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

I'm not denying I've espoused and promoted conservatism, because conservatism's the alternative. And conservatism works every time it's tried. That's the problem. It really hasn't been tried. Even people claiming to be conservative, when it comes time to actually do it, chicken out.

I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.

I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.

I'm not 'worked up' so much as 'fed up' with the rat faced whores in the Conservative Party who neglect to invite me to announcements in my riding.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

I'm really, really, really, really conservative with money. I got to give myself a lot of excuses to spend money, because I come from nothin'.

I'm socially conservative in some things. I don't know a label that fits, honestly.

I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation.

In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

In choosing a President, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

In Hollywood especially, if you're gay and conservative, it's worse to be a conservative in the gay community than it is to be a conservative in Hollywood.

In public, I like real conservative clothes, something that's not too flashy. But onstage, I like 'em as flashy as you can get 'em.

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding to other areas.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.

Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

I think Senator [Ted] Cruz's strategy is that there's 4.5 million, 5 million Republicans that didn't vote in 2012. This is the conventional wisdom and they didn't vote because they didn't like the nominee, wasn't conservative enough, or there was a religious component. Who knows what?

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.

I think our basic principle that this is a free market system and that that has worked for us, that it creates innovation and risk taking, I think that's a principle that we've gotta hold to as well. But what I don't wanna do is get bottled up in a lot of ideology and is this conservative or liberal. My interest is finding something that works.

I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.

I truly believe Donald Trump is not a true conservative. His values as a Republican or a self-described Republican, when he mocks the disabled, when he really badly stumbles when asked about David Duke and the KKK, when he says that he admires Vladimir Putin and then quotes the dictator Francisco Mussolini - this is unfathomable to me that this is the type of individual who leads the party that I love.

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

It is wrong to believe that Hispanics are Democrats. Hispanics are traditionally and historically conservative, not just socially conservative, but fiscally conservative.

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

It's easier to interest a conservative audience in pushing the musical boundaries than to involve a young audience used to very noisy, assertive music in something like Schubert or Bach because the further back you go, the less bells and whistles there are.

It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.

It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.

I used to play a narcissistic-conservative pundit. Now, I'm just a narcissist.