Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.

I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.

I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

I am a very conservative journalist and prefer to write about what happened, and not what will happen.

I am a very conservative person. And there are a lot of things that Donald Trump's government or administration is doing that I might agree with. The point is we have to defend the rules of the game. And one of the things that has empowered Donald Trump is that not enough people are serious enough about defending the rules of the game, maybe because they don't understand how endangered those rules are.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.

I am for a huge, huge tent that espouses conservative principles.

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.

I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

I am not a moderate. I am a conservative. I'm a fix-it conservative.

I am on the whole a defender of the current, despite being a conservative. I mean, I think things are better than when I was younger.

I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.

I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.

I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.

I called to buy some meth, but I threw it away.

I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

I brag on the Democratic Party. We're libertarian on social issues, it's live and let live. Fiscally, we're conservative and responsible, and were environmentally conscious.

I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

I can foresee no circumstance in which I would allow my name to be put forward for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

I can't be gay! I'm a happily married conservative, just like Ted Haggard and Larry Craig.

I don't know why my son was born conservative.

Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with which they cannot contend.

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

I'd like to have a drink with Bill Maher and see how he feels. We were too conservative coming over to Fox from fX, and got ourselves off our best game

I didn't start skiing until I was 50. My wife Lois taught me how to ski. I'm proficiently conservative.

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.

I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used to describe a group that was ready to make war on the status quo, which is not a conservative position.

I don't support gay marriage despite being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

I don't understand if the conservative movement says you can't be gay and conservative, and I'm straight, then I don't think I can abide by that form of conservatism.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

I don't think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.

I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.

If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but instead an assault on rights. Women and gays: So evil that we can turn actual rights into assaults on freedom just by having them.

If higher unemployment is the price we have to pay in order to bring inflation down, then it is a price worth paying.

I find labels "liberal" and "conservative" of little meaning. Our language has become perverted along with the thoughts of many of us.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

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 there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life.

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.