Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

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 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 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 support gay marriage despite being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 are explaining, you are losing.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.

I hadn't expected to be kidnapped today or I'd have worn something more conservative.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

I guess what happens to a lot of people as they get older is that they get more conservative, but with me, the opposite is the case.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

I have gay friends in my life who are conservative. I have gay friends in my life who are for gay marriage and against gay marriage. I believe in an open and free debate.

I have gay friends who are more conservative than most of my conservative friends.

I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?

I have no skeletons in my closet.

I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement.

I haven't been in Washington over the last - ever. I'm not part of Washington. I got to serve as governor of a state, a purple state and I was the most successful conservative governor probably, during the time that I was there.

I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.