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What never fails inside the mind of an intellectual never works outside the confines of his head. The world’s stubborn refusal to vindicate the intellectual’s theories serves as proof of humanity’s irrationality, not his own. Thus, the true believer retrenches rather than rethinks; he launches a war on the world, denying reality because it fails to conform to his theories. If intellectuals are not prepared to reconcile theory and practice, then why do they bother to venture outside the ivory tower or the coffeehouse? Why not stay in the world of abstractions and fantasy?

When you’re a conservative Republican, you never think people are making money by ripping other people off,” he said. His mind was now fully open to the possibility. “I now realized there was an entire industry, called consumer finance, that basically existed to rip people off.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

A black conservative is a black who dissents from the victimization explanation of black fate.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

YOU ARE JUST You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be conscious human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.

A conservative frame of mind is very limiting for an actor, and a human being, too.

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says, 'Hi, Mitt.'

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.

All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.

A man's got to do what a man's got to do.

A lot of Muslims, a lot of Arab Americans, Muslim Americans were very attracted to the Republican Party - conservative social values and so on. But Trump has horrified them.

A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

A radical is one of whom people say ''He goes too far.'' A conservative, on the other hand, is one who ''doesn't go far enough.'' Then there is the reactionary, ''one who doesn't go at all.'' All these terms are more or less objectionable, wherefore we have

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Americans are conservative. What they want to conserve is the New Deal.

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

Am I conservative? Yes, I am. I would have thought conservative is very much middle of the road, representative of the aspirational values of the Australian people. The extreme right has connotations with it that I would never seek to identify with.

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

Any Republican, especially any conservative, expects the media to be hostile. That's just the reality of being a Republican. You've got to be prepared to deal with that.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

As a conservative power, the United States has a vital interest in upholding and expanding the reign of law in international relations.

At some point in this death-penalty debate, the sanctity of innocent life demands that men and women of conservative conscience have to say: Enough.

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

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

Bold objects require conservative engineering.

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

Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.

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.

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

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

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".

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

Caissa, the goddess of chess, had punished me for my conservative play, for betraying my nature.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

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