To ask whether the mainstream media has a conservative or liberal bias is like asking whether al-Qaida uses too much oil in their hummus. It’s – I think they might use too much oil in their hummus – but it’s the wrong question.
The medical profession is – and knows itself to be – endemically conservative and conformist.
What I owe the Tea Party is to be the conservative voice they elected me to be.
I think you can have a Left that isn’t culturally conservative talking about lunch-bucket issues.
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
It’s time for conservative Americans to do what Reagan did.
Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?
Very simply, I was the original conservative.
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.
I’m a conservative, and I’m a compassionate conservative. And I think it’s important that Florida continues to move in that direction.
Of course, there will always be, you know, conservative classical people who will judge you, but you know, who cares about them?
The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don’t believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.
Because liberalism typically doesn’t sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country.
It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.
Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.
With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.
I’m a can-do conservative, and I just love the job, and I think I’m going to get re-elected.
Well, I’m a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.
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.
We don’t believe there is a functional conservative party in this country, and we certainly don’t think the Republican Party is that.
I don’t know what a conservative is, you know, but I do know what good people are. And that’s where I sit with Donald Trump.
The ‘inability to have a dialogue’ is increasingly the norm in academia. Conservative thought is not just unwelcome, oftentimes it is banished altogether.
Louisiana’s a very conservative state. When we’ve ever polled this, we’ve found that they like conservative reforms. They want us to fight back against our leadership and Democrats, so it’s very consistent.
My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.
I’ll tell you, in my life I’ve never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values – faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
Every time there is a recession, consumers will typically be more cautious, more conservative, take more time, and make more serious price-performance trade-offs.
Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet.
You know some people are all about talk. I’m about results. Every victory, every conservative victory, I’ve had, I’ve had to bleed and fight to accomplish it, always adhering to our conservative principles, and refusing to take no for an answer.
The conservative movement is about government playing its important yet limited role, and about not falling into the trap of believing that every problem has an exclusive government answer for it.
The essence of the conservative message should be we want a dynamic nation where anybody with nothing can achieve anything.
There’s no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there’s been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I’ve always believed in the separation of church and state.
By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time.
I learned conservatism through my grandfather; I didn’t know that was the name. I didn’t know these were conservative principles. Starting his life on a sharecropping farm. Working tremendously hard. Five years old, picking cotton and laying tobacco out to dry on a farm, and today he now owns that farm.
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.
In the absence of honesty from the Conservative party leadership, it is Labour’s duty to spell out the very real consequences of a no-deal Brexit. It is also our duty to take whatever steps are necessary to prevent it.
The album that defined my childhood was probably Ella Fitzgerald’s ‘Greatest Hits,’ whereas my half-sister, who didn’t have the same conservative upbringing, was listening to Cash Money and crunk.
The challenge of writing books for teenagers is walking the fine line between truth and what the publishers, parents, and the more conservative librarians want to hear.
The people still get to choose whether they want to support conservatives or if they want to support Mr. Trump, whose record is not conservative.
There are conservative people in all colours in America.
Voters never have to question where I stand – my principles or priorities. I am a pro-freedom, pro-America and pro-life conservative.
Many of you may remember that I supported Mike Huckabee for president in 2008. He was doing great, beating out Mitt Romney, when some shenanigans were pulled by bringing in Fred Thompson as a candidate to compete against Mike for the evangelical and conservative votes in South Carolina.
We need to conceptualize; we need to articulate conservative domestic policy with a laser focus on opportunity, on easing the means of ascent up the economic ladder.
You can’t prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell – although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I’d say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn’t really looked at either painter’s work. Taste is a blood sport.
We’re not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
In Mexico, I think I’m considered conservative. Not politically – in terms of form and experimentation.
Fiscally, I’m very conservative… others say that I’m socially moderate. As a former judge, I listen to all the facts, and I make a decision as to what I believe is in the best interest of the state.
I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.
Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they’re very strongly pro-traditional family… not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.
No, I wouldn’t vote Labour, dear, if you paid me. I vote Conservative.
Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.
The great conservative insight is that order is really hard to achieve. It’s really precious, and it’s really easy to lose.
If the most liberal man that’s ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years.
We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can’t break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.
