I’m a conservative, but I’m not a nut about it.
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.
I think that there’s a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don’t like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.
Europe certainly needs a genuine conservative movement to combat the creeping bureaucratic collectivism that is stifling the human potential of the Continent.
How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We’re supposed to be the party of personal freedom and civil liberties.
I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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 Supreme Court’s most conservative Justices have presented themselves as great respecters of precedent and opponents of ‘judicial activism’ – of judges using the Constitution to strike down laws passed by the elected branches of government. If they are true to those principles, they should uphold rent control.
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.
My dad was Chinese-American and very conservative when it came to his family’s futures. He said if I wanted to have a secure job, I should go into science. So I did what Dad said and went to medical school, but the writing bug never left me.
I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical ’60s libertarian.
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million.
I’m probably the most uptight, conservative person you’ll meet. I’m very religious.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt eventually became the greatest liberal leader of 20th century United States, but he started as a fiscal conservative. His greatness is founded in his willingness to change his mind to save his country from the Great Depression.
People want to protect the territory that they have, and they’re very threatened by change. That’s not true for all of scientists, but you know, fortunately, the scientific community moves forward in a conservative fashion.
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.
Look, I think Hispanic community – the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism.
Women overwhelmingly support conservative policies.
Money makes people bold and cosmopolitan; if you are poor, you are naturally conservative. It’s not easy to be a bohemian when you have to worry about what is going to happen with you and with your next paycheck.
There is clearly a move among some tea-party people, not all of them, to always elect or nominate the most conservative person, and under that scenario, I don’t think Scott Brown would probably be their first choice.
My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.
On trade, a Conservative government would challenge China’s actions on canola and meat imports through the World Trade Organization and withdraw funding from the Chinese-run Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank.
When people talk about conservative government, that’s it in a nutshell. We’re using taxpayers’ money like we would use our own. We’re holding in the reins during good times so we’re prepared during bad times.
The most conservative man in this world is the British trade unionist when you want to change him.
I’m tempted to say that Conservative governments are normally elected to clear up the mess left by Labour governments.
I guess there’s nothing funny about a guy who looks conservative and has it all together, but it’s satisfying to see a conservative guy crumbling inside, and I think a lot of American comedy has cottoned on to that.
I am an unapologetic Christian, constitutional conservative, pro-life, Second Amendment-loving American!
In the days when I wasn’t being taken seriously, I wore long skirts – very conservative. But now, I dress any way I want to.
NSA is a very conservative culture legally. Our lawyers at NSA were notorious for their conservatism up through the morning of September 11th, 2001. The single most consistent criticism of the NSA legal office by our congressional oversight committee was that our legal office was too conservative.
The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.
I am a fiscal conservative.
We’ve got very large freshman class, it’s historic in its size, so there’s people that are extremely diverse in their backgrounds and their viewpoints. I think that we’re going to see a conservative group of people coming together, focused on some real ideals that are going to be extremely important.
It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.
I shall not grow conservative with age.
I think that’s one thing that, you know, we all need to remember is that, you know, politics, even though it’s been really rough, is that we are all human beings first. And that it is more important for us to have civil dialogue. And you know what? I’m conservative, but I’m not mad about it.
I love this country very much, and I’m proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
I’m innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
I’m not sure what a conservative is. I don’t know whether a conservative is a guy that goes to bed too early or maybe doesn’t sleep long enough or just what the hell he might be. I don’t know. Maybe he’s a guy that – you know, he just wants to be real quiet.
Myself, I’m a post-ideological conservative.
My father is quite conservative and religious, and he’s been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
It’s a cliche, and in a way it’s a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.
Conservatives like to talk about ‘the strivers’ who share what they like to think of as Conservative values. But as I found in my Blue Collar Tories research in 2012, such people no longer see the party as their natural ally.
To make the argument that the media has a left- or right-wing, or a liberal or a conservative bias, is like asking if the problem with Al-Qaeda is do they use too much oil in their hummus.
Here’s one measure of the man and the scope of his achievement: No serious historian will be able to write about 20th-century America without discussing Bill Buckley. Before Buckley, there was no conservative movement. After Buckley, there was Ronald Reagan.
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.
If we continue to cut something with each resolution, I would say we’re making steady progress and sending a strong conservative message.
What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.
I think I’m basically a liberal Conservative – I believe in low tax, spirit of free enterprise, and in making sure that we as politicians create the framework for business to produce the dosh that we’re going to need to pay for the poorest. And the longer I live, the more I think that we all have a duty to each other.
It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been ‘mugged by reality.’
Like Jon Voight, Pat Boone, Kelsey Grammer, and Gary Sinise, Clint Howard is one of the few courageous enough to identify himself publicly as a conservative.
Dick Armey is an economic conservative. He is not a social conservative. He doesn’t like to talk about marriage and about the unborn child, the sanctity of life and things like that. He wants to talk about smaller government.
I’m a political conservative.
I have considered voting Conservative because I am so against the Labour party.
I’m a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the ‘Goldwater for President’ campaign in 1964.
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you’ll never know. I truly believe what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
