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Conservative Quotes
"The conservative revival cannot be dismissed."
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"Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part."
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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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"A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
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"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."
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"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."
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"I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it."
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"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
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"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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"I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways."
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"The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic."
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"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."
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"Conservation is an American value, and it is lacking from this bill."
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"I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up."
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"Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general."
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"I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on."
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"In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute."
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"A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one."
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"Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party."
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"I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage."
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"White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high."
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"Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media."
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"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."
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"The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it."
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"Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters."
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"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."
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"A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth."
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"It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned."
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"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."
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"A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now."
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"I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative."
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"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
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"The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions."
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"But I came from a conservative Republican background."
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