Conservative Quotes

Science is conservative and one of the reasons science is conservative is science is trying to play it safe.

Only our own strength, a strong conservative party, can prevent Red-Red-Green from taking power at the federal level in 2017.

This is not the party of Reagan. Today the conservative movement took a backseat to liberal Democrats in the state of Mississippi.

A faction willing to take the risks of making war on the ossified status quo in the Middle East can be described as many things, but not as conservative.

I think the prospect of bringing back grammar schools has always been wrong and I've never supported it. And I don't think any Conservative government would have done it.

We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

Doing well is a conservative idea; meaning well is a liberal idea

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their economy or their form of government, be conservative.

I was drawn to the arts because I sensed that I was by nature Bohemian, and yet very conservative.

Fiscally, I'm very conservative. I don't believe in welfare states. I believe in giving people jobs.

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

Bold objects require conservative engineering.

I'm a conservative and I believe if you tax something more you get less of it.

Out here a man settles his own problems.

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

Donald Trump's staffing up a pretty traditional, very conservative Republican government, not a populist outsider government, at least not yet.

I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.

I was a severely conservative Republican governor.

A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.

There is no one more vicious on their own than conservative women on conservative women.

The Conservative Party has one overriding concern in foreign policy, and that is the growth of Communist power and influence in the world, and the dangers it can bring for all of us.

Among the conservative Greek opinion there would be no regrets that Alexander the Greek leader was invading the barbarians.

Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.

They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.

I did a lot of shopping for her in Tokyo because the colors here are very conservative. A shopaholic would have a coat in every color and lots of accessories

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

I like pretty conservative guys, good guys. I always look for the qualities I find in my father.

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

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

I often think it's comical How Nature always does contrive That every boy and every gal That's born into the world alive Is either a little Liberal Or else a little Conservative!

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.

That level of expectation that I'm going to be conservative is really disappointing, but it is how many people think about clergy and the church

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.

When you're a pop star, it's a little conservative; you always have to stay in a box. You have fans that are five and fans that are 65; there are so many people wanting so many things.

Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

It is an old liberal theme that conservative ideas, being red in tooth and claw, cannot possibly emerge from any notion of the public good.

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

I'm certainly very conservative when it comes to education. We're getting rid of Common Core. We're going to have education at a local level.

I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road.

I used to be a conservative.

Where I live in Manhattan and where I work at ABC, people say conservative the way people say child molester.

I think the immigration thing has really stuck to Marco Rubio. He was on the wrong side of what's emerged as probably the most important issue for the conservative base.