Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something outrageously, god-awfully collectivistic, you may be sure that the author is a conservative.

If you're a limited government conservative, I feel your pain. Your man Mr. Bush has exploded the size of government, ballooned the deficit and increased government power so dramatically that he claims the right to eavesdrop on your conversations without a warrant.

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

If you're a status quo writer, you're considered to not be political but that's as political as if you're a progressive writer. Some politics are asked to show their passports and others aren't. In the Dominican Republique, if you're slightly progressive, people have a lot of suspicions that you're up to some sort of conspiracy, that this is some sort of plot. On the other hand, if you're conservative and mainstream, people tend to take that as a given and don't notice the politics.

If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.

If you want to say something radical, you should dress conservative.

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

I grew up in central Illinois midway between Chicago and St. Louis and I made an historic blunder. All my friends became Cardinals fans and grew up happy and liberal and I became a Cubs fan and grew up embittered and conservative.

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that Jewish feel to my act from my surroundings and my family.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

I guess what happens to a lot of people as they get older is that they get more conservative, but with me, the opposite is the case.

I hadn't expected to be kidnapped today or I'd have worn something more conservative.

I have just as many liberal ideas as I have conservative ideas that I argue with myself sometimes.

I have gay friends in my life who are conservative. I have gay friends in my life who are for gay marriage and against gay marriage. I believe in an open and free debate.

I have gay friends who are more conservative than most of my conservative friends.

I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.

I have no skeletons in my closet.

I have no question that Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement.

I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?

I haven't been in Washington over the last - ever. I'm not part of Washington. I got to serve as governor of a state, a purple state and I was the most successful conservative governor probably, during the time that I was there.

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.

I hope that in the days to come, I'll be able to convince my colleagues that I should be one of the candidates that Conservative party members can choose from.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative.

I like to do movies that provoke rather than reinforce conservative values.

I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven't done anything crazy.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

I look forward to the day when the Westminster Parliament is just a council chamber in Europe

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

I'm an honest, hardworking conservative leader who will stand up to Washington and fight for Nebraska.

I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

I'm a small government conservative.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

I'm more conservative with make-up. My everyday look is a bit of concealer with lots and lots of mascara.

I'm from South Carolina, so I know what it's like to be accused of being a conservative from the South. And I know that to some people that means more than you're a conservative from the South.

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

I'm not a conservative or a free market advocate or a Republican because, you know, I want people to like me.

I'm really, really, really, really conservative with money. I got to give myself a lot of excuses to spend money, because I come from nothin'.

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.

I'm not 'worked up' so much as 'fed up' with the rat faced whores in the Conservative Party who neglect to invite me to announcements in my riding.