Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

I was a severely conservative Republican governor.

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

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

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited -- it will be spirited -- because there are stark differences. I am a proud conservative, liberal Republica-- conservative Republican...Hello? Easy there.

I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

I will tell you my position now, as somebody who is ardently against [Donald Trump], as the sort of standard-bearer of the Republican Party and as sort of an impostor in the conservative movement, is, frankly, cautiously optimistic.

I would describe myself as a "total conservative, a conscientious one.

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative

I would always argue to my students that Canada is not necessarily or inherently a left-wing country, and the United States is not necessarily the citadel of right-wing liberty. The obvious case there is Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, which made the Americans much further left than the Canadians at the time, and Americans coming to Canada found us backward, conservative, and out of tune with the kind of free-spirited liberalism that there was in the States. Then things reversed, with medicare the prime example.

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

Jeb Bush is conservative governor,his record as governor is more conservative than any current republican governor in the country.

Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

Kissinger-type foreign policy is clearly, in my view, the proper tilt for us in the future, and he [Donald Trump] gets it. And some of our members, I guess, have been so deeply committed to the [George W.] Bush agenda, the neo-conservative agenda, that it's harder for them to acknowledge that. But I acknowledge it.

Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.

Let Detroit go bankrupt.

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

Liberals are liberals, and it's not helpful to them when they are so identified. They go out of their way to avoid being called liberal. They don't like it. They talk about Republican versus Democrat, voter identification, conservative versus liberal is where you need to look.

Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative characters on Aaron Sorkin's little teleplays.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition

Marco [Rubio] has more of an allegiance to Chuck Schumer and to the liberals than he does to conservative policy.

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. Its not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.

More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

My colleagues have expressed confidence in my ability to articulate our conservative message and to provide new focus to our efforts in the General Assembly.

MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work

My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.

My kids would probably say that I'm too strict. They probably would say that, and I try not to be, but I'm probably more on the conservative end of that. At the same time, I know full well that ultimately I don't really have control over them.

Nationalizing businesses, nationalizing banks, is not a solution for the democratic party, it's the objective.

Nobody is more conservative when it comes to trade than I am.

No gains without pains.