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"It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative."
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"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."

"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."

"The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic."

"A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one."

"But I came from a conservative Republican background."

"The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right."

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

"The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill."
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"In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party."

"The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN."

"I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!"

"Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals."

"That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage."

"America must be the moral leader. It is not enough to have power. Power must be used to protect freedom and give all people hope for the opportunity to see the fruit of their own labor."

"Such schemes take money from people who can least afford to spend it to support an unneeded bureaucracy that eats money people thought they were providing for education."

"I want our government to encourage and protect freedom as well as our traditions of faith and family."

"It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment."
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