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Conservative Quotes

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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."
Jesse Helms
"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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"Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them."
David Frost
"Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them."
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"If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion."
Jerome Corsi
"If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion."
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"I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court."
Julius Erving
"I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court."
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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."
Theodore White
"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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"I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways."
Augusten Burroughs
"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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"I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on."
Lisa Kudrow
"I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on."
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"I'm a compassionate conservative."
John Engler
"I'm a compassionate conservative."
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"I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it."
George H. W. Bush
"I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it."
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"The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it."
Paul Weyrich
"The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it."
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"I'm actually quite conservative."
Peta Wilson
"I'm actually quite conservative."
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"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
Robertson Davies
"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
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"I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy."
Bob Edwards
"I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy."
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"The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right."
Bill Maher
"The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right."
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"Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general."
Allen Boyd
"Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general."
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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."
Denis Thatcher
"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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"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."
Leo Rosten
"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."
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"Bush is no conservative."
Bill Kristol
"Bush is no conservative."
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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."
Douglas Jerrold
"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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"The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic."
A. E. Housman
"The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic."
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"I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage."
Countee Cullen
"I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage."
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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."
Jacques Barzun
"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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"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."
Paul Weyrich
"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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"Conservation is an American value, and it is lacking from this bill."
Jim Costa
"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."
Herman Cain
"I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up."
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"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."
Woodrow Wilson
"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."
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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."
Rick Mercer
"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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"I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative."
Candice S. Miller
"I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative."
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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."
Jimi Hendrix
"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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"Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters."
Rich Lowry
"Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters."
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"It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned."
Vincent Bugliosi
"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 believes in reform. But not now."
Mort Sahl
"A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now."
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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."
Tom Bergeron
"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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"The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions."
Samuel Butler
"The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions."
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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."
Ambrose Bierce
"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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"All great peoples are conservative."
Thomas Carlyle
"All great peoples are conservative."
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"But I came from a conservative Republican background."
Christopher Meloni
"But I came from a conservative Republican background."
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