Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.

One of the striking things and Donald Trump is right, he gets no Democratic votes. It`s interesting there were Democrats from states some of them more conservative states that voted him, Indiana, Missouri, West Virginia, Montana, North Dakota. They`re not afraid of Donald Trump those Democratic Senators because they know more than he knows and know what the people want.

One shark turned to the other to say he was fed up chasing tuna and the other said, 'Why don't we go to Morecambe Bay and get some Chinese?'

...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.

On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.

Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.

Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics.

Our nation's continued prosperity hinges on our ability to solve environmental problems and sustain the natural resources on which we all depend.

Our planet is falling victim to a rigorism, so that what is done in any remote corner affects - nay, menaces - the whole. Resiliency and tolerance are lost.

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.

Our victory was a victory and a win for conservative values.

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats.

People always say, "Could it have been a show about a conservative Republican administration?" No! Nobody wants to watch that! Watching Republicans flirt makes people queasy!

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.

Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that.

People should not have to pay for pollution they do not cause.

People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist.

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.

Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense.

Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied, it is not surprising that the Prince is so sympathetic towards the unemployed: he is by way of being one of them himself.

Punctuation is a deeply conservative club. It hardly ever admits a new member.

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

Putin has been - and with a lot of the groups, the conservative groups, the more extreme conservative groups that underlie Trump, he's a bit of a hero because he speaks for traditional values, he's against the global institutions.

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.

Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

Republic. I like the sound of the word.

[ Republican Party] is correctly described as a "radical insurgency" by one of the leading conservative commentators, Norman Ornstein.

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

Republicans lost control of Congress because they strayed from the core conservative values that put them into the majority in 1994. If they return to the basic values that a majority of Americans share, they will regain power. If not, they won't.

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

Saudi Arabia is so conservative. At first there were photographs of women I took that I couldn't publish - of women without their abayas. So I started writing out little anecdotes about things I couldn't photograph and wove it in with a more obscure picture and called it "moments that got away". I realised these worked as well as the photographs by themselves. There are a lot of photographers who feel the story is all in the photographs but I really believe in weaving in complementary words with the pictures.

Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

Ronald Reagan is the closest thing [to the strong conservative] we have.He said that we shouldn't spend money we don't have, and he said that the government shouldn't get involved in things that it's not very good at doing.

So, it's important for us to acknowledge that we're prone to be conservative, and in turn surround ourselves with individuals who will help break down our conservatism.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.

Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.

'Sympathy for the Devil' is just another way of saying 'Compassionate Conservative'.

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.