Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

It's easier to interest a conservative audience in pushing the musical boundaries than to involve a young audience used to very noisy, assertive music in something like Schubert or Bach because the further back you go, the less bells and whistles there are.

It's great that we've got a compassionate conservative, but to me, that sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.

It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.

It's so much easier to do press if you take positions that the press likes than to take conservative Republican positions.

I used the marriage as a filter. If the guy was conservative, didn't believe in gender-neutral marriage or thought what I did was wrong, then I immediately knew they weren't for me. That was actually very helpful.

I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.

I used to play a narcissistic-conservative pundit. Now, I'm just a narcissist.

I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

I’ve become less conservative since the Republican Party started becoming goofy.

I've never really been a conservative. I've never really been a Republican, never been any of that. I've only been in it for me. And proof of that is that I will not denounce Trump.

Ive been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture

I was a severely conservative Republican governor.

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House.

I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited -- it will be spirited -- because there are stark differences. I am a proud conservative, liberal Republica-- conservative Republican...Hello? Easy there.

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative

I will tell you my position now, as somebody who is ardently against [Donald Trump], as the sort of standard-bearer of the Republican Party and as sort of an impostor in the conservative movement, is, frankly, cautiously optimistic.

I would describe myself as a "total conservative, a conscientious one.

I would always argue to my students that Canada is not necessarily or inherently a left-wing country, and the United States is not necessarily the citadel of right-wing liberty. The obvious case there is Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, which made the Americans much further left than the Canadians at the time, and Americans coming to Canada found us backward, conservative, and out of tune with the kind of free-spirited liberalism that there was in the States. Then things reversed, with medicare the prime example.

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.

Jeff Sessions has some problematic spots on his history, but he has been a pretty normal, respectable senator, more conservative than a lot of us, but a respectable senator for a long period of time.

Jeb Bush is conservative governor,his record as governor is more conservative than any current republican governor in the country.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

Let Detroit go bankrupt.

Kissinger-type foreign policy is clearly, in my view, the proper tilt for us in the future, and he [Donald Trump] gets it. And some of our members, I guess, have been so deeply committed to the [George W.] Bush agenda, the neo-conservative agenda, that it's harder for them to acknowledge that. But I acknowledge it.

Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative characters on Aaron Sorkin's little teleplays.

Let's trace the birth of an idea. It's born as rampant radicalism, then it becomes progressivism, then liberalism, then it becomes moderated conservative, outmoded, and gone.

Liberals are liberals, and it's not helpful to them when they are so identified. They go out of their way to avoid being called liberal. They don't like it. They talk about Republican versus Democrat, voter identification, conservative versus liberal is where you need to look.

Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.

Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

Making the case (for same-sex marriage) from a conservative values perspective is an imperative, not an option.

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do as a conservative politician.

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

Marco [Rubio] has more of an allegiance to Chuck Schumer and to the liberals than he does to conservative policy.