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Conservative Quotes


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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 like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways."


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


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


"I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity."


"Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments."


"Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part."


"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."


"Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was."


"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."


"It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism."


"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."


"The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it."


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


"Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party."


"You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush."


"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."


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


"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 like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax."


"But I came from a conservative Republican background."


"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."
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