Conservative Quotes

My dad didn't riot. He got on his bike and looked for work

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings.

The conservative may clamor against reform, but he might as well clamor against the centrifugal force. He sighs for the "good old times,"--he might as well wish the oak back into the acorn.

Barbara Comstock is a solid and reliable conservative. I've known her for many years. She'd make a great member of Congress. I am happy to join other conservatives and proudly endorse her candidacy.

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

Particularly conservative Christians, I was very angry that they were not involved more in the AIDS emergency.

Even on Ben Carson, he's not exactly steeped in housing policy, but his statements on the issue have also been very conservative.

Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.

I remember my Republican Party as fiscally conservative, as caring about the environment.

The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.

I grew up in conservative rural Kansas in the 1950s when it was expected that girls would not have a life outside the home, so educating them was a waste of time

I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

I thought Jeb Bush would have made a good president. He was on the board of my foundation. He's very conservative, much too conservative for me.

Conservative's the last thing I am.

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.

Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.

To be sure, conservative radio talk show hosts have a built-in audience unavailable to liberals: People driving cars to some sort of job.

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

The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

I think the thing that I admire about Rick Santorum is that he hasn't backed down or apologized one bit for his personal religious views, for standing up for social conservative values.

I would describe myself as a "total conservative, a conscientious one."

Democrats always assure us that deterrence will work, but when the time comes to deter, they're against it.

Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative characters on Aaron Sorkin's little teleplays.

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Ive been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior.

I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

Do you have blacks, too?

It's always written that my father was a rich, conservative John Bircher. That is untrue. He was not rich. He was not a John Bircher.

Free people will set the course of history.

Conservative Denyers and Delayers are the main reason America lacks the consensus and the political will to take up the fight against catastrophic climate change.

I believe the default position in life is liberalism. You have to work at being a Conservative.

I'm conservative with my money. I'm the one who's got a family and I can't be playing basketball forever, so when I retire, I want to live on what I've made.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press.

When I'm on TV, I'm often talking to a conservative host. I may have another conservative arguing with me. You've got very limited time, and you're using 'sound-bite' type language.

More conservative advocacy work often encourages portrayals of trans people as people who deserve rights. Deservingness, of course, corresponds to national racial, gender and ability norms.

Planned Parenthood, we're going to get rid of that.

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

The Conservative Party have got to ask themselves, 'How do we persuade people who at the moment are voting Labour and Liberal Democrat to vote Conservative

A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'.

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn't white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans.