Conservative Quotations | Page 3

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.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.

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

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

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

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

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

You know what is interesting, Condit is very conservative. He voted to post the ten commandments in schools. Yet, he himself broke the 11th commandment, 'Thou shall not put thy rod in thy staff.'

I am a conservative because I know that no one of us is better than any other one of us.

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

To those who say Ted Bundy should burn forever in eternity I would only say, so should I, so should all of us...

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

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

You know, I've had Botox. The woman who does it is very good, obviously. Very conservative.

Donald Trump actually is a pretty big-government conservative. He doesn't see eye-to-eye with them [the Kochs] on trade.

I grew up in a very small town in Scotland, a little place called Crieff which is beautiful and it's at the foothills to the highlands. It's a very beautiful part of the world. It's a small, I suppose quite conservative place.

Conservative's the last thing I am.

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.

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

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

A true conservative is on the side of science.

Ted Cruz is a small-government conservative.

The Republican Party, right now, is a conservative populist party.

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.

There is no one more vicious on their own than conservative women on conservative women.

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.

Let Detroit go bankrupt.

Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that.

I'm severely conservative.

I was a severely conservative Republican governor.

Fascism allegation [to Donald Trump] is not coming from the left. This is coming from the right. It`s coming from inside the Republican Party and from within mainstream conservative thought.

What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell.

Opposing taxes is a key conservative value.

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again

I'm pretty conservative on a lot of things. I don't want to get hurt.

I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.

The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.

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.

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

I don’t think I’m all that 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.

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.

Ronald Reagan is the closest thing [to the strong conservative] we have.He said that we shouldn't spend money we don't have, and he said that the government shouldn't get involved in things that it's not very good at doing.

If you are a conservative you can never get anything wrong. I was very proud of the fact that I didn't get anything wrong that I said during the course of the debates.

That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.

Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

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

You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.

I'm a Reagan conservative. Reagan did negotiate with the Soviets. But you have to negotiate from a position of strength.

There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.

I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to hold the line on all spending.

I call myself a constitutional conservative.

We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics.

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

My kids would probably say that I'm too strict. They probably would say that, and I try not to be, but I'm probably more on the conservative end of that. At the same time, I know full well that ultimately I don't really have control over them.

We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets.

I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.

I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don't think that I've moved left - I think the country has moved right.

A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative — like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment.

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

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

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.

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

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

Im as conservative as they come.

The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

I’ve been married for 29 years. My marriage has been the greatest joy of my life. There is nothing conservative about denying other Americans the ability to forge that same relationship with the person they love.

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

Pennsylvania might be a parochial state, but it's not a homogeneous state. So, even among just Republican voters, to be able to pull that off, when you have very moderate voters on one side of the state and more conservative in the middle, shows that Donald Trump has very, very broad support.

In a state like Pennsylvania, the paradox is, to win, you have to get the conservative Democrats in the west, but you still have to do well with the collar-county moderates in the east. [Mitt] Romney did fine with the moderates, but not the conservative Democrats. Trump is doing well with the conservative Democrats. Now Trump has to seal the deal with the moderates in the east.

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

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

The nature of the issues facing U.S. students is a bit more complicated in the U.S. because the assault on the social state, until recently, has been more incremental [i.e. the stripping of public services and so forth], whereas in Britain with the rise of the conservative-liberal government, it was immediate and bold in its assault on the social state and higher education.

The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.

Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying and I've been saying this for six months.

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

My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work

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

I'm a very, very conservative driver.

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

What I don't know is what the unexpected might be.

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'm a proud Reagan conservative.

I'm a compassionate conservative.

When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

I fear nothing for God is with me!