Conservative Quotes:

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Giving, Conservative, Slave

There are conservative people in all colours in America.

- Adepero Oduye

topic: America, People, Conservative

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition

- Alasdair MacIntyre

source: Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.295, A&C Black

topic: Rejection, Systematic, Conservative, Modern Politics

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.

- Alex Cox

source: Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January 2003.

topic: Writing, Conservative, Language, Writers And Poets

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

- Alex Tabarrok

topic: Long, Tuning, Conservative, Chimera, Fine Tuning

The great leading objects of the federal government, in which revenue is concerned, are to maintain domestic peace, and provide for the common defense.

- Alexander Hamilton

topic: Government, Defense, Conservative, Common Defense

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

topic: Republic, Politics, Conservative, Democracy In America, Bribery

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

- Alicia Silverstone

topic: Want, Conservative, Married

I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.

- Allan Bloom

topic: Animal, Conservative, Outlook

Even if I am being conservative, I don't see how Obama can lose.

- Allan Lichtman

source: "Obama Can't Lose? Allan Lichtman Is Never Wrong, Except This Time" by Russell Halley, www.businessinsider.com. September 5, 2011.

topic: Conservative

The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.

- Amanda Beard

topic: Swimming, Community, Conservative

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.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Character, Littles, Conservative

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

- Anthony Kiedis

topic: Father, Conservative, Upbringing

Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

- Anthony S. Fauci

topic: Disease, Conservative, Predictions

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

- Antonin Scalia

source: "Scalia Describes ‘Dangerous’ Trend" by Daniel J. Hemel, www.thecrimson.com. September 29, 2004.

topic: Silly, Sake, Conservative, Stupid Conservative, Dumb Liberal

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.

- Ariel Durant

source: Will Durant, Ariel Durant (2012). “The Lessons of History”, Simon and Schuster

topic: Conservative, Radical, Valuable

I'd rather take advice from my valet than from the Conservative Party Conference

- Arthur Balfour

topic: Party, Advice, Conservative, Conservative Party, Valet

It is really quite amazing by what margins competent but conservative scientists and engineers can miss the mark, when they start with the preconceived idea that what they are investigating is impossible.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Ideas, Missing, Conservative, Investigating, Preconceived Ideas

What's funny is my husband doesn't have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.

- Ashley Scott

topic: Tattoo, Husband, Conservative

The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.

- Barry Goldwater

topic: Men, Slavery, Conservative

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

- Ben Shahn

source: Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.73, Harvard University Press

topic: Artist, Conservative, Members

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.

- Ben Stein

topic: Beverly Hills, Becoming, Conservative

No gains without pains.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Pain, Gains, Conservative, Without Pain

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Tyrants, Conservative, Rebellion, Obedience To God, Rebellion Against God

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

- Bill Halter

source: "Labor Unions Turn Against Lincoln", www.realclearpolitics.com. May 11, 2010.

topic: Issues, Conservative, Progressive

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.

- Bjork

topic: People, Sake, Conservative, Trippy, String Quartets

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

- Bob Inglis

topic: Party, Tea, Conservative

The meat in the sausage has got to be Conservative.

- Boris Johnson

topic: Meat, Sausage, Conservative

I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.

- Brit Hume

topic: Thinking, People, Conservative

I'm kind of more on the conservative side.

- Bruce Jenner

topic: Sides, Conservative, Kind

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

- Calvin Coolidge

topic: Rights, Politics, Conservative, Personal Rights, Property Rights

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

- Candice S. Miller

topic: Conservative, Pledge

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

- Carl Jung

topic: Historical, Conservative, Creation

Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.

- Catherine Austin Fitts

topic: Obfuscation, Entertainment, Conservative

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

- Catherine Opie

topic: Dad, Conservative, Problem

Would join the Conservative Coalition in the state Legislature. About 60 percent of the Legislature are members or considered conservative, which my father was one of them.

- Charles Capps

topic: Father, Conservative, Conservation

The Delta is a conservative place, .. District 28 is a very conservative district. We don't have many conservative districts in the Delta. Mississippi is a conservative place. We need to keep it that way.

- Charles Capps

topic: Way, Needs, Conservative

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.

- Charles Schumer

topic: Party, President, Conservative

I'm more conservative with make-up. My everyday look is a bit of concealer with lots and lots of mascara.

- Chloe Sevigny

topic: Everyday, Looks, Conservative, Mascara

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

- Christopher Lasch

topic: Understanding, Conservative, Modern, Traditional Values

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

- Christopher Lasch

topic: Sides, Conservative, Social, Traditional Values

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

- Christopher Lasch

topic: Conservative, Revival

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

- Christopher Meloni

topic: Surfing, Conservative, Republican

Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed.

- Chuck Knox

topic: Sports, Conservative, Common

I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?

- Chuck Norris

topic: Hollywood, Conservative, Very Good

I am very conservative. I don't invest in anything that is risky. If someone comes to me with a project idea, I let them risk their money, not mine.

- Claudia Schiffer

topic: Ideas, Risk, Conservative

When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Conservative, Reckless, Young

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

- Countee Cullen

source: Countee Cullen, Gerald Lyn Early (1991). “My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance”, Doubleday Books

topic: Atmosphere, Conservative, Methodists

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

- David Brock

source: "The Republican Noise Machine" by Bradford Plumer, www.motherjones.com. September 1, 2004.

topic: Media, Levels, Conservative, Misinformation

I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.

- David Cameron

topic: Conservative, Know Me

Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied, it is not surprising that the Prince is so sympathetic towards the unemployed: he is by way of being one of them himself.

- David Cannadine

topic: Office, Way, Conservative, Disadvantaged, Underprivileged

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

- David Frum

topic: Decision, Leader, Conservative, Parliamentary System

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

- David Frum

source: "Frum: Conservatives fleeced and ‘lied to by conservative entertainment complex’" by Drew Katchen, www.msnbc.com. November 09, 2012.

topic: Entertainment, Conservative, Republican

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

- David Miliband

source: "David Miliband: 'You've punished us enough about Iraq'". Interview with Patrick Wintour, Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2010.

topic: Vat, Conservative, Cameron

Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

- David Shuster

topic: Radio, Conservative, Opinion, Talk Radio

MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.

- David Shuster

topic: Foxes, Conservative

I have no skeletons in my closet.

- David Vitter

topic: Skeletons, Conservative, Closets

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

- Dennis Prager

topic: Ideas, Conservative, Wells, Meaning Well

I appear wild on the outside, but I'm a conservative businessman.

- Donny Deutsch

topic: Conservative, Businessman

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

- Doris Lessing

topic: Men, Conservative, Adventurous, Despite

Demeanor-wise, Reagan was a conservative, but a pragmatic conservative, and he found silver linings in things. He liked to be a mediator. He didn't like to have enemies around him.

- Douglas Brinkley

source: "Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. January 24, 2011.

topic: Wise, Enemy, Conservative, Pragmatic

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

- Douglas Wilson

source: Douglas Jones, Douglas Wilson (1998). “Angels in the Architecture: A Protestant Vision for Middle Earth”, p.110, Canon Press & Book Service

topic: Doe, Conservative, Conserving

In theology the conservative temper tends to formalism.

- Edith Hamilton

topic: Religion, Conservative, Temper

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

- Edmund Burke

topic: Wisdom, Historical, Conservative, Destined

The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country.

- Edward Kennedy

topic: Country, Conservative, Financial, Anti Conservative

Facebook was looking at which links I clicked on, and it was noticing that I was clicking more on my liberal friends' links than on my conservative friends' links. And without consulting me about it, it had edited them out. They disappeared.

- Eli Pariser

topic: Links, Conservative, Internet, Edited

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.

- Elton John

topic: Mind, Conservative, Grew Up

I'm a very, very conservative driver.

- Emile Hirsch

topic: Conservative, Drivers

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

- Emilio Estevez

topic: Lines, Conservative

The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.

- Eric Hobsbawm

source: Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”

topic: Conservative, Communism, Paradox

There is a radicalism in all getting, and a conservatism in all keeping. Lovemaking is radical, while marriage is conservative.

- Eric Hoffer

topic: Marriage, Radicalism, Conservative

Conservative's the last thing I am.

- Ewan McGregor

topic: Lasts, Conservative

Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.

- F. Lee Bailey

source: "F. Lee Bailey looks back on his legal career". Interview with Greta Van Susteren, www.cnn.com. August 17, 2000.

topic: Justice, Conservative, Opinion, Justice Scalia

Of all social institutions language is least amenable to initiative. It blends with the life of society, and the latter, inert by nature, is a prime conservative force.

- Ferdinand de Saussure

source: Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.74, Columbia University Press

topic: Conservative, Language, Initiative, Social Institutions, Amenable

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

- Fiona Shaw

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Hate, Conservative, Murder, Pomposity

A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says, 'Hi, Mitt.'

- Foster Friess

source: "Life of the Party" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. March 12, 2012.

topic: Bars, Conservative, Bartender

One of the greatest injustices we do to our young people is to ask them to be conservative. Christianity is not conservative, but revolutionary.

- Francis Schaeffer

source: Francis August Schaeffer (1982). “The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer: A Christian view of the church”

topic: People, Conservative, Injustice

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

- Frank Gaffney

topic: Reality, Conservative, Enough, Truism

A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet....

- Frank Rizzo

topic: Conservative

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

- Frank Rizzo

topic: Night, Conservative

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

- Frank Zappa

topic: Rocks, Taste, Conservative

The essence of conservative ideology is its being anchored in the divine order of things.

- Franz von Papen

topic: Order, Essence, Conservative, Divine Order

What to the Slave is the 4th of July.

- Frederick Douglass

topic: 4th Of July, July, Conservative, Be A Slave

Free people will set the course of history.

- George W. Bush

topic: People, Conservative

I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.

- George W. Bush

topic: People, World, Conservative, September 11th

America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people.

- George W. Bush

topic: America, People, Conservative

I know the human being and fish can co-exist peacefully.

- George W. Bush

topic: Silly, Dumb, Conservative, Coexist, Stupid Conservative

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

- Greg Gutfeld

source: Greg Gutfeld (2012). “The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage”, p.22, Crown Forum

topic: People, Libertarian, Conservative

You may boo, you may turn your back, but I have devoted my life to the conservative cause.

- Gresham Barrett

topic: May, Causes, Conservative

The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.

- Harold Rosenberg

topic: Practice, Conservative, Individual

I think 2-D animation disappeared from Disney because they made so many uninteresting films. They became very conservative in the way they created them. It's too bad. I thought 2-D and 3-D could coexist happily.

- Hayao Miyazaki

topic: Thinking, Way, Conservative

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

- Howard Baker

topic: Tennessee, Conservative, Bolsheviks, American Politics

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.

- Ione Skye

topic: School, Kids, Conservative, Close Minded, Private School

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

- Irving Kristol

source: "Reflections of a Neoconservative: Looking Back, Looking Ahead". Book by Irving Kristol, 1983.

topic: Conservative, Welfare, States, Welfare State

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

- Irving Kristol

topic: Reality, Conservative

If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something outrageously, god-awfully collectivistic, you may be sure that the author is a conservative.

- Isabel Paterson

topic: May, Chance, Conservative

If you are explaining, you are losing.

- J. C. Watts

topic: Losing, Conservative, Explaining

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration.

- James Bovard

topic: Favors, Administration, Conservative, Suppression

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

- James Denton

source: "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

topic: Conservative, Born, Raised, Raised In The South

To those who say Ted Bundy should burn forever in eternity I would only say, so should I, so should all of us...

- James Dobson

topic: Forever, Ted Bundy, Conservative, Should I

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.

- Jane Campion

topic: Thinking, Television, Conservative

You know, I've had Botox. The woman who does it is very good, obviously. Very conservative.

- Janeane Garofalo

topic: Doe, Botox, Conservative

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

- Jarvis Cocker

topic: Government, Alternatives, Conservative

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

- Jarvis Cocker

topic: Government, Way, Conservative

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

- Jason Chaffetz

topic: Conservative, Persons, Romney

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

- Jason Chaffetz

topic: House, Conservative, Members

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.'

- Jay Leno

topic: School, Interesting, Conservative

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

- Jeaniene Frost

topic: Today, Conservative, Worn, Kidnapped

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

- Jeb Hensarling

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: House, Conservative, Economics

While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE...TORTURE...

- Jeremiah Denton

topic: Voice, Messages, Conservative

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

- Jerome Corsi

topic: Party, Conservative, Republican

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

topic: Being Yourself, Use, Conservative, Describe Yourself

I fear nothing for God is with me!

- Joan of Arc

topic: Conservative, Fear Nothing, Fear Not

You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.

- Joan of Arc

source: Saint Joan (of Arc), Thomas de Courcelles, Guillaume Manchon, Pierre Cauchon, Catholic Church. Diocese of Beauvais (France) (1931). “The trial of Jeanne d'Arc”

topic: Judging, Conservative, Judge Me

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

- John Barrasso

source: "State of the Union" with Candy Crowley, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 1, 2011.

topic: Believe, Conservative, I Believe

When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

- John Bercow

topic: Might, Firsts, Conservative

But, you know, I'm presiding over an institution that was designed not to work.

- John Boehner

source: "Boehner: Senate Wants No Part of Cutting Spending". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. February 6, 2012.

topic: Conservative, Institutions, Values, Conservative Values

The problem is not that Christians are conservative or liberal, but that some are so confident that their position is God's position that they become dismissive and intolerant toward others and divisive forces in our national life.

- John C. Danforth

source: "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 10, September 19, 2006.

topic: Christian, Conservative, Problem

I'm a compassionate conservative.

- John Engler

topic: Conservative, Compassionate

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

- John Major

topic: Different, Conservative, Prime, Prime Minister

I'm more boring and more conservative.

- John Malkovich

topic: Conservative, Boring

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

- John Maynard Keynes

topic: Past, Men, Conservative

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

- John Podhoretz

topic: Cities, Atmosphere, Conservative, Wholeheartedly

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

- John Podhoretz

topic: Tactics, Conservative, Republican

Duty is ours, results are God's.

- John Quincy Adams

topic: Reality, Conservative, Results

The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

- John Redwood

topic: Party, Cutting, Conservative, Conservative Party

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

- John Stott

topic: Christian, Conservative, Should

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

- John Stuart Mill

topic: Stupid, People, Conservative, Stupid Conservative, Anti Conservative

I would never speculate on the limit. Every time you speculate, you're way too conservative

- John Warnock

topic: Way, Limits, Conservative

If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

- John Wayne

topic: Black And White, Reality, Conservative

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.

- John Wooden

topic: Would Be, Conservative, Enough

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

- Jon Postel

source: "The Robustness Principle". RFC 793, "Transmission Control Protocol", entire text of section 2.10, www.ietf.org. September 1981.

topic: Principles, Conservative, Accepting

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

- Jon Postel

source: RFC 791, "Internet Protocol", www.ietf.org. September 1981.

topic: Receiving, Conservative, Behavior, Implementation

Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.

- Jon Postel

topic: Conservative, Accepting

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

- Jon Stewart

topic: America, Conservative, Lost

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

- Jose Manuel Barroso

topic: Son, Conservative, My Son

I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

- Josephine de La Baume

topic: Nice, Conservative, Tradition

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

- Josh Billings

topic: Men, Conservative, Radical

I was a romantic, messy thinker. I was raised with very conservative beliefs, but that was a long time ago.

- Julia Child

topic: Long, Belief, Conservative

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

- Julius Erving

topic: Basketball, Trying, Conservative, Demeanor

I'm not that conservative. I do feel - I guess I'm more of a Democrat at heart, although I've never affiliated myself with a particular party.

- Kathy Bates

topic: Party, Heart, Conservative

These are times when what used to be called liberal is now called radical; what used to be called radical is now called insane; what used to be called reactionary is now called moderate; and what used to be called insane is now called solid, neo-conservative thinking.

- Katrina vanden Heuvel

topic: Thinking, Insane, Conservative, Reactionaries

I am not a moderate. I am a conservative. I'm a fix-it conservative.

- Kay Bailey Hutchison

topic: Conservative

A true conservative is on the side of science.

- Kenneth R. Miller

topic: Sides, Conservative

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

- Kenneth R. Miller

source: "America’s Darwin Problem" by Kenneth R. Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

topic: Conservative, Students, Agnostic

I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

- Kevin Cramer

source: "New House members of 113th Congress: A-B-C". POLITICO Interview, www.politico.com. January 17, 2013.

topic: Optimistic, Ideas, Conservative, Big Ideas

Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost medieval.

- Khaled Hosseini

topic: People, Conservative, Medieval

I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote.

- Kim Alexis

source: Supermodel Kim Alexis: 'My son said thank you for never doing nudes', www.foxnews.com. August 01, 2012.

topic: Way, Conservative, Vote

I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative.

- L. Brent Bozell, Jr.

topic: Opportunity, Growth, Conservative, Conservative Values

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

- Laura Schlessinger

topic: Conservative, Hateful

A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar.

- Leo Strauss

source: Leo Strauss (2012). “Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought”, p.414, SUNY Press

topic: Men, Effort, Conservative

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

- Lincoln Chafee

source: "Q&A: Lincoln Chafee". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. September/October, 2008.

topic: Party, Caring, Conservative

Revolutionary in my ideas, liberal in my objectives and conservative in my methods.

- Luis A. Ferre

source: "Luis A. Ferré Dies at 99; Pushed Puerto Rican Statehood" by Douglas Martin, www.nytimes.com. October 22, 2003.

topic: Ideas, Conservative, Revolutionary

It is wrong to believe that Hispanics are Democrats. Hispanics are traditionally and historically conservative, not just socially conservative, but fiscally conservative.

- Luis Fortuno

topic: Believe, Conservative, Democrat

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Conservative, Republican, Democrat, Anti Conservative

The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

- Manning Marable

source: Manning Marable (1980). “From the grassroots: essays toward Afro-American liberation”

topic: Use, Hierarchy, Conservative

There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

- Margaret Thatcher

topic: Liberty, Conservative, Economic, Iron Lady

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Thought Provoking, Advice, Conservative

Im as conservative as they come.

- Matthew Vaughn

topic: Conservative

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

- Maurice Saatchi

topic: Conservative

Ronald Reagan is the closest thing [to the strong conservative] we have.He said that we shouldn't spend money we don't have, and he said that the government shouldn't get involved in things that it's not very good at doing.

- Michael Enzi

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Strong, Government, Conservative

The fundamental question is is the Conservative Party leadable

- Michael Heseltine

topic: Party, Fundamentals, Conservative, Conservative Party

So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.

- Michael Kinsley

topic: Years, Another Year, Conservative, Judicial Activism, Judicial

I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.

- Michael Moore

topic: Conservative, Lifestyle, Persons

Conservative pundits have a remarkable amount of free speech.

- Michael Pare

topic: Speech, Conservative, Pundits

I live a pretty conservative life, so I probably really haven't done anything crazy.

- Michael Phelps

topic: Crazy, Done, Conservative

Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas.

- Michele Bachmann

topic: Silly, Conservative, Study, Stupid Conservative, Carbon Dioxide

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.

- Michele Bachmann

topic: Conservative, Complicated, Problem

My kids would probably say that I'm too strict. They probably would say that, and I try not to be, but I'm probably more on the conservative end of that. At the same time, I know full well that ultimately I don't really have control over them.

- Michelle Pfeiffer

topic: Kids, Trying, Conservative

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

- Mike Huckabee

topic: Conservative

Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying and I've been saying this for six months.

- Mike Lee

topic: Six, Months, Conservative

The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives.

- Mike Lee

topic: Conservative, Misguided

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

- Mike Pence

source: VP Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 20 July 2016

topic: Christian, Order, Conservative

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again

- Mike Pence

topic: Ships, Conservative

It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.

- Mike Royko

source: Mike Royko (2014). “Mike Royko: The Chicago Tribune Collection 1984-1997”, p.2954, Agate Digital

topic: Hands, Giving, Conservative, Columnists, Helping Hand

Reagan's approach will achieve one of the basic goals of the conservative: Things remain basically the same. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, or even a little poorer.

- Mike Royko

topic: Goal, Littles, Conservative

Inflation is taxation without legislation.

- Milton Friedman

topic: Money, Taxation, Conservative

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.

- Mitch Daniels

topic: Conservative, Outlook, Inconsistent

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

- Mohamed ElBaradei

topic: Egypt, Class, Conservative

The facts of life are conservative.

- Mona Charen

topic: Facts, Conservative, Facts Of Life

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

- Mort Sahl

topic: Political, Politics, Conservative, Unworthy

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

- Mort Sahl

topic: Believe, Reform, Conservative

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.

- Nancy Reagan

topic: Father, Conservative, Rich, Untrue

I was more conservative when I was younger. But I don't think that I've moved left - I think the country has moved right.

- Nick Hanauer

source: Source: gawker.com

topic: Country, Thinking, Conservative

He's a good, brave and honourable soldier.

- Norman Lamont

topic: Brave, Soldier, Conservative

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

- Norman Tebbit

source: Speech at Conservative Party Conference, 15 October 1981, in 'Daily Telegraph' 16 October 1981

topic: Dad, Conservative, Riot

If this be treason, make the most of it!

- Patrick Henry

topic: Conservative, Treason, Stamp Act

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

- Paul Weyrich

topic: Radio, Conservative, Reason, Talk Radio

I'm actually quite conservative.

- Peta Wilson

topic: Conservative

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.

- Pete Seeger

topic: Income, Conservative, Clock

My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

- Peter MacKay

topic: Party, Government, Conservative

Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals.

- Philip Yancey

topic: Conservative, Sometimes, Feels

I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin

- Rachel Caine

topic: Tests, Fields, Conservative, Amelie, Myrnin

Gandhi: Ninny of the 20th Century.

- Ralph E. Reed, Jr.

topic: Conservative, Century, 20th Century

I call myself a constitutional conservative.

- Rand Paul

topic: Conservative

There is nothing conservative about bailing out Wall Street. Likewise, there is nothing progressive about billion dollar loans to millionaires to build solar panels.

- Rand Paul

topic: Wall, Dollars, Conservative, Solar Panels, Bailing Out

We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.

- Randy Hultgren

topic: Able, Needs, Conservative, Wonderful Experience, Entitlement Programs

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

- Rich Lowry

topic: Voters, Bills, Conservative, Bubba

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

- Rich Lowry

topic: Running, Presidential, Conservative

All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

- Richard John Neuhaus

source: "Lutheran Minister Prodding U.S. Catholics to Lead Christian Revitalization" by Peter Steinfels, www.nytimes.com. 1988.

topic: Religion, Conservative, Should, Pragmatic