Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

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

In Hollywood especially, if you're gay and conservative, it's worse to be a conservative in the gay community than it is to be a conservative in Hollywood.

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

In public, I like real conservative clothes, something that's not too flashy. But onstage, I like 'em as flashy as you can get 'em.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

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

In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding to other areas.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

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

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 seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

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

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 shall not grow conservative with age.

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

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

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

I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.

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 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 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.

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

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 is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

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

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

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

It is wrong to believe that Hispanics are Democrats. Hispanics are traditionally and historically conservative, not just socially conservative, but fiscally conservative.

I used the marriage as a filter. If the guy was conservative, didn't believe in gender-neutral marriage or thought what I did was wrong, then I immediately knew they weren't for me. That was actually very helpful.

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.

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

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

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

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

I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.

I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

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've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture

I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House.