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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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"But I came from a conservative Republican background."

"Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era."

"A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill."

"I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court."

"I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy."

"If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion."

"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."
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"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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!"

"The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble."

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