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Conservative Quotes
"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."
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"This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries."
172
"A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested."
121
"If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested."
74
"A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal."
68
"A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before."
61
"It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?"
59
"I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past."
56
"What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right."
52
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
52
"I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense."
50
"I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity."
49
"If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful."
49
"Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you."
48
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
48
"And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue."
45
"Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome."
44
"The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do."
44
"How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution."
43
"You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush."
43
"Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments."
43
"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others."
42
"If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative."
42
"It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism."
42
"Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11."
42
"I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative."
42
"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."
41
"A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
41
"The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed."
40
"What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch."
40
"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."
39
"We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources."
39
"If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?"
38
"Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party."
38
"I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican."
37
"Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was."
37
"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."
36
"The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative."
36
"One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically."
36
"I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington."
35
"Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it."
35
"And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative."
35
"Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans."
35
"I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media."
35
"The conservative revival cannot be dismissed."
34
"Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part."
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