Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

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

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

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 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 have no skeletons in my closet.

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

I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative.

I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven't done anything crazy.

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

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.

I'm an honest, hardworking conservative leader who will stand up to Washington and fight for Nebraska.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

I'm a small government conservative.

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote.

I'm more conservative with make-up. My everyday look is a bit of concealer with lots and lots of mascara.

I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

I'm not a conservative or a free market advocate or a Republican because, you know, I want people to like me.

I'm from South Carolina, so I know what it's like to be accused of being a conservative from the South. And I know that to some people that means more than you're a conservative from the South.

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

I'm not denying I've espoused and promoted conservatism, because conservatism's the alternative. And conservatism works every time it's tried. That's the problem. It really hasn't been tried. Even people claiming to be conservative, when it comes time to actually do it, chicken out.

I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

I'm not 'worked up' so much as 'fed up' with the rat faced whores in the Conservative Party who neglect to invite me to announcements in my riding.

I'm socially conservative in some things. I don't know a label that fits, honestly.

In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!

In choosing a President, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.