Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted you will be branded "reactionary".

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Breitbart is sort of an ill-defined, loose-knit collection of a wing of the conservative movement. What do they do? The rant against immigration, Muslims, multi-culturalism, political correctness. But what they want, a lot of them, is a white America.

Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.

Brett Kavanaugh is a brilliant, brilliant judge and one of the most-distinguished conservative jurists in the country.

Bold objects require conservative engineering.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.

Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo.

But, you know, I'm presiding over an institution that was designed not to work.

Certainly any president - Democrat, Republican, liberal, conservative - should keep an open mind until they get the briefing.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.

Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

Conservative presence in the media has not been reflected in elections. Well, maybe the midterm elections of 2010, 2014.

Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

Conservative activists, Tea Party activists, are threatening Donald Trump that if he chooses Reince Priebus, he will lose much of his base of support.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have even joined).

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.

Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

Donald Trump is a mainstream conservative who wants to profoundly take on the left. The left is infuriated that anybody would challenge the legitimacy of their moral superiority. And so the left goes hysterical.

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

[Donald Trump] stood up and he said, you finally have a president, you finally have a president. I am the future.And what did he get? Hosannas and huzzahs and genuflection. It was a total takeover of the conservative movement.

During his campaign, [Donald] Trump promised the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan's conservative revolution in the 1980s.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

Dreher is correct in saying that traditionalist conservatives also have been conservationists...I think most conservatives should agree that this is an area we need to think more about.