Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

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

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

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

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

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 Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.

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 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 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?

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

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

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

I shall not grow conservative with age.

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

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

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.

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's so much easier to do press if you take positions that the press likes than to take conservative Republican positions.

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

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

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

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

Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.

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

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

Ive been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

I've never really been a conservative. I've never really been a Republican, never been any of that. I've only been in it for me. And proof of that is that I will not denounce Trump.

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

I will tell you my position now, as somebody who is ardently against [Donald Trump], as the sort of standard-bearer of the Republican Party and as sort of an impostor in the conservative movement, is, frankly, cautiously optimistic.

I would always argue to my students that Canada is not necessarily or inherently a left-wing country, and the United States is not necessarily the citadel of right-wing liberty. The obvious case there is Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, which made the Americans much further left than the Canadians at the time, and Americans coming to Canada found us backward, conservative, and out of tune with the kind of free-spirited liberalism that there was in the States. Then things reversed, with medicare the prime example.

I would describe myself as a "total conservative, a conscientious one.

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative

Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time.

Jeb Bush is conservative governor,his record as governor is more conservative than any current republican governor in the country.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

Let Detroit go bankrupt.

Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.