Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

He was a conservative all right, but invariably he gave the impression that he was a conservative because he was surrounded by liberals; that he had been a revolutionist if that had been required in order to be socially disruptive.

He who would trade liberty for some temporary security, deserves neither liberty nor security.

Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.

Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.

Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they’re very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

I actually get more conservative when I'm in Vegas.

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

I always like to make sense of things that, in theory, would not make any sense together. It's true that the core of Calvin Klein has been . . . I don't want to say conservative, but real clothes that are worn by everybody.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

I always worry that me by myself, I'm doing the same thing I'm always doing and become too lazy and conservative in what I do, or too incestuous in my own thoughts.

I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.

I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

I am a very conservative person. And there are a lot of things that Donald Trump's government or administration is doing that I might agree with. The point is we have to defend the rules of the game. And one of the things that has empowered Donald Trump is that not enough people are serious enough about defending the rules of the game, maybe because they don't understand how endangered those rules are.

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.

I am for a huge, huge tent that espouses conservative principles.

I am on the whole a defender of the current, despite being a conservative. I mean, I think things are better than when I was younger.

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

I am not a moderate. I am a conservative. I'm a fix-it conservative.

I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.

I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.

I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.

I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. Fiscally, we're conservative and responsible, and were environmentally conscious.

I called to buy some meth, but I threw it away.

I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig.

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.

I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position.

I don't know why my son was born conservative.

I'd like to have a drink with Bill Maher and see how he feels. We were too conservative coming over to Fox from fX, and got ourselves off our best game

I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

I don't support gay marriage despite being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative.

I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

I don't understand if the conservative movement says you can't be gay and conservative, and I'm straight, then I don't think I can abide by that form of conservatism.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but instead an assault on rights. Women and gays: So evil that we can turn actual rights into assaults on freedom just by having them.