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[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

Republicans lost control of Congress because they strayed from the core conservative values that put them into the majority in 1994. If they return to the basic values that a majority of Americans share, they will regain power. If not, they won't.

Republic. I like the sound of the word.

Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

Saudi Arabia is so conservative. At first there were photographs of women I took that I couldn't publish - of women without their abayas. So I started writing out little anecdotes about things I couldn't photograph and wove it in with a more obscure picture and called it "moments that got away". I realised these worked as well as the photographs by themselves. There are a lot of photographers who feel the story is all in the photographs but I really believe in weaving in complementary words with the pictures.

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

So, it's important for us to acknowledge that we're prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will help break down our conservatism.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

'Sympathy for the Devil' is just another way of saying 'Compassionate Conservative'.

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

Ronald Reagan is the closest thing [to the strong conservative] we have.He said that we shouldn't spend money we don't have, and he said that the government shouldn't get involved in things that it's not very good at doing.

That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.

That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.

That's why they're in the problem - having the problem they're having. They're not conservative. They're being run by their donors.

The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.

...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

The base that Donald Trump is speaking to are not that conservative, at least not the way conservatives have defined themselves.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

The conservative Republican governors tend to be more oriented toward trying to work with Democrats and getting things done.

The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.

The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C.

The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.

The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.

The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures.

The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

The media has been trying to protect Obama. The media has been trying to shield Obama. Several in the Republican establishment in the so-called conservative media have even been trying to shield Obama.

The media has a tremendous bias and has for a very long time against the Republican party and against somebody that happens to be conservative. They certainly have a tremendous bias against me.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.