Top 640 Conservative Quotes

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
Ariel Durant
We’ve not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can’t trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I’m much more conservative with money than George Bush is.
Howard Dean
One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative – and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.
Jeffrey Bernard
I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.
Jim Carrey
My mom passed away when I was 4 years old, and she came from a very conservative Korean background. I feel like my life would’ve been incredibly different had she still been alive.
Awkwafina
Including myself, it is now clear that there is a significant group of Conservative MPs who think that a People’s Vote – a vote on the final form Brexit will take, is absolutely indispensable for the future wellbeing of our country.
Dominic Grieve
I’m a Christian, a wife, a mother, a homeschooler, a conservative, a citizen journalist, a talk radio host, an insatiable music nerd who plays a poor rhythm guitar, a blogger, a proud granddaughter of a sailor, and a proud tea partier in awe of the potential and the people in this movement.
Dana Loesch
Conservative ideas don’t just sound good. They actually work. That’s the secret of our success.
Bobby Jindal
When I first started painting, I had an interesting nightmare about Cleveland – I dreamed the houses there were encased in this free-floating cage structure. I guess Cleveland was a confining place for me, even though my parents weren’t too conservative.
April Gornik
What’s funny is my husband doesn’t have any tattoos at all, so he must be the very conservative one.
Ashley Scott
I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.
Gary Johnson
The ‘Ms. Marvel’ mantle has passed to ‘Kamala Khan,’ a high school student from Jersey City who struggles to reconcile being an American teenager with the conservative customs of her Pakistani Muslim family.
G. Willow Wilson
While I’m trying to be different, I’m trying to be very conservative at this point in my career.
Christy Romano
I think I’m being conservative when I say there are more people playing soccer in the United States than in 90% of the world’s other countries, probably 95%.
Rabih Alameddine
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
David Frum
My parents are very conservative. They taught me the value of hard work – don’t depend on other people, do it yourself.
Kyrsten Sinema
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
I’ve always been a conservative first.
Steve Scalise
I’m a total Republican, but I’ve never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They’re a large but dwindling part of the Party.
Roger Stone
Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.
Jon Stewart
I have a message for Democrats, including Joe Biden: the time of demeaning and destroying conservative Americans simply for their beliefs has come to an end.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
I’m a conservative Republican.
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.
Daniel Okrent
I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
Edgardo Osorio
I’m a conservative. I voted for Donald Trump and back in 2016 everybody was talking about, ‘Oh my God, here’s another TV character trying to run for the presidency.’ They didn’t really take him seriously.
Jake Hager
I call myself a constitutional conservative.
Rand Paul
I’m still a fiscal conservative, and I’m inclined to pay down debt.
Jim Flaherty
A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
Frank Dane
The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.
John Frame
I certainly think you could look at the business side of how WWE was run, which was as a conservative company with little debt and strong cash balance.
Linda McMahon
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There is a very conservative element of crime writers that don’t recognise what I do is crime fiction.
John Connolly
I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
John Podhoretz
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.
Kenneth Clarke
I’m more boring and more conservative.
John Malkovich
I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.
John Key
You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.
Karl Ove Knausgard
It is wrong to believe that Hispanics are Democrats. Hispanics are traditionally and historically conservative, not just socially conservative, but fiscally conservative.
Luis Fortuno
I’ve been watching and involved in presidential politics since 1960 when I first voted, and the Republican, the conservative candidate in the primary is always going to lean right and come back to the center for the general – the opposite for the Democrat.
Phil Gingrey
Maybe I am conservative, but I like to have a little fun, too.
Roger Penske
The bottom line is, there’re a lot of conservatives that don’t feel Donald Trump is conservative, right? Or, he’s not their brand of conservatism… and there’s a lot of people who don’t have a seat on the inside who used to have a seat on the inside.
Sean Duffy
I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. As children, we tend to copy our parents.
Elton John
Personally, my interest in social history ends around 1959, by which time I was an adolescent. I’ve always attributed this to my particular sensibilities. I like formality and elegance, and I’m fundamentally conservative.
Laurie Graham
I will support the Republican nominee. I don’t think that’s going to be Donald Trump. My party has historically nominated someone who’s a mainstream conservative.
Mitt Romney
It’s fashionable in some circles to be pessimistic about America, about conservative solutions, about the Republican Party. I utterly reject that pessimism.
Mitt Romney
Nashville is a boys’ club of redneck conservative ideas. But they’re ready to embrace gay people. I never felt for one second that someone was judging me. Some people are like, ‘Oh, I love gay people’ in that ‘I have lots of black friends’ kind of way. It’s awkward, but you have to appreciate that they’re trying.
Shane McAnally
It’s important to ensure that the person who replaces Tim Scott be a reliable conservative, a proven fighter and a leader who will join our mission to cut wasteful Washington spending. I’m convinced the best person for the job is Larry Grooms.
Jeff Duncan
I think it’s important that the Republican Party remain the home of conservatives and that the best way to advance conservative principles is to elect Republicans up and down the ballot.
Tom Cotton
As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.
Daniel Keys Moran
For eight years Republicans worked around the clock to delegitimize Bill Clinton. For the next eight years, Democrats tried to delegitimize Bush. Now Barack Obama is enduring the rage of his conservative opposition.
Joe Scarborough
I consider myself neither liberal nor conservative when it comes to foreign policy.
Peter Landesman
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.
Gail Collins
I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.
James Denton
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
Harold Rosenberg
I like to get input from all different kinds of listeners, including the really conservative ones, and sometimes those listeners steer me in a direction that I haven’t seen. But at the end of the day, my vote is always to go in the direction that makes me the most excited.
Rivers Cuomo
I’m not a conservative of any kind.
Christopher Hitchens
Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
John Stuart Mill
Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.
Jim Talent