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

Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed.

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.

Bold objects require conservative engineering.

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.

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.

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

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

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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

Diversification is an established tenet of conservative investment.

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

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.

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.

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.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.

Essentially, the obligation of conservative media is to question what's going on, and say, "Is this something that is the right thing to do? Is it something that's constitutional? Is it something that is even wise to do?" I think that's true regardless of who's in power.

Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

Even the most conservative must realize that the recent transformation of surplus from an individual to a national disaster implies a scathing indictment of our capitalist system as it has now developed.