Conservative Quotes

Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

A more humane form of capitalism is about the best I think we can get. Which might sound very reformist or conservative, but that's basically where I am.

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.

People who oppose Obama are said to be racists - so I guess I'm a racist.

When people begin to talk about "our island story" my hackles rise. It is deluded and conservative.

I mean you've got a conservative and right-winged press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum.

I don't recognize this new brand of Republicanism that's afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects.

America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.

And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.

In the '80s and '90s we started to have economic problems because society became more conservative. So we didn't have the wherewithal for expanding to other areas.

There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

No man can be a conservative unless he has something to lose.

I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.

Donald Trump actually is a pretty big-government conservative. He doesn't see eye-to-eye with them [the Kochs] on trade.

Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.

My characters never die screaming in rage. They attempt to pull themselves back together and go on. And that's basically a conservative view of life.

Conservative talk radio hosts have conned the American people into thinking there is such a thing as a pro-life, pro-war, pro-gun, pro-death penalty Christian.

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

I was ranked the second most conservative member in the House.

I've always viewed Mitt Romney as a very conservative person.

You know what is interesting, Condit is very conservative. He voted to post the ten commandments in schools. Yet, he himself broke the 11th commandment, 'Thou shall not put thy rod in thy staff.'

John Wayne was just a very conservative guy, who had not served in World War II, and he was defensive about that - he almost overcompensated his anti-Communism because of that reason.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

I hadn't expected to be kidnapped today or I'd have worn something more conservative.

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.

I'm one of the top 2 or 3 or 4 most conservative members in the House of Representatives when it comes to economics.

Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.

Folks are obviously reluctant to do things that they don't feel comfortable with, and the conservative nature of the state is such that they can understand property rights.

The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.

Frankly, if independents and Democrats want to work with us on conservative ideas, I can do that better at Heritage than as a partisan inside.

Conservative forces in the South have a lot of power - almost dynastic - dating back many years.

The Catholic hierarchy has become more conservative. What we don't know is whether [Catholic voters] will become increasingly conservative, or .. stay swing voters.

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

I was brought up and raised in Britain as a Labour man, and that quickly changed. And I find there are more working-class people in the Conservative Party than the Labour party.

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.

I am proud to be a conservative ... but I am also proud throughout my life to have attracted the support and the love and affection of people from all over America and all parts of it.

I'm a proud Reagan conservative.

Be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

Reform Jews are the children of Conservative Jews, or as they are sometimes known, Christians with curlier hair.

For all the worship that Ronald Reagan elicits in conservative circles in the United States, I would venture that Thatcher did far more to reshape British society than Reagan did here.

Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.

I don't know why my son was born conservative.

I'm not a "conservative" because I see precious little left in this world worth conserving. Playing defense, it seems to me, can only forestall an inevitable slide into tyranny.

The great political tragedy of our time is that conservative leaders in America have chosen to use their superior messaging and political skills to thwart serious action on global warming.