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Conservative Quotes



"Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it."


"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."


"Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans."


"I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media."



"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."


"I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on."


"Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them."


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



"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."



"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."


"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."


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


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


"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."


"I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it."


"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."


"Conservation is an American value, and it is lacking from this bill."


"Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general."


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


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


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


"Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters."


"I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up."



"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."


"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."


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



"It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned."


"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."



"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."


"A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now."


"The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions."


"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."


"But I came from a conservative Republican background."
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