Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 know why my son was born conservative.

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 think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.

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

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

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

If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth paying.

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.

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.

If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something outrageously, god-awfully collectivistic, you may be sure that the author is a conservative.

If you're a limited government conservative, I feel your pain. Your man Mr. Bush has exploded the size of government, ballooned the deficit and increased government power so dramatically that he claims the right to eavesdrop on your conversations without a warrant.

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.

If you're a status quo writer, you're considered to not be political but that's as political as if you're a progressive writer. Some politics are asked to show their passports and others aren't. In the Dominican Republique, if you're slightly progressive, people have a lot of suspicions that you're up to some sort of conspiracy, that this is some sort of plot. On the other hand, if you're conservative and mainstream, people tend to take that as a given and don't notice the politics.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that Jewish feel to my act from my surroundings and my family.

If you want to say something radical, you should dress conservative.

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.