Best 633 quotes in «conservative quotes» category

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

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

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 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 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 don't know why my son was born conservative.

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.

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 think it is deniable: whenever we, I, conservative media, are really interested in something, the mainstream media purposely avoid it.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

If you are explaining, you are losing.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.