Quotes About Conservatism

You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand of Republicanism that is being so vocally promoted today.

Republicans are the only one who can carry the banner of what I think millions of Americans are saying.

The Dixiecrats meet again in New York. Now they're called Republicans.

I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.

I keep Reagan's 11th Commandment that I don't run down other Republicans.

The Washington establishment think Republicans win elections by you don't stand for anything, you keep your head down, you don't rock the boat. You know what? Every time we do that, we get clobbered in the polls.

It's a sad day when Republicans will attack fellow Republicans on an issue as fundamental as free enterprise.

As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.

Heading the ideological Right is more important than being in the Likud.

The genteel conservatism of 'Downton Abbey' is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.

I'd like to expand the base of the Republican Party. I would like the Republican Party to be more inclusive, not less inclusive.

My mother has an incredible rigidity, which is very Catholic.

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed and life is not static.

And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today.

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Reagan is described as delivering Barry Goldwater's doctrine with John F. Kennedy's technique.

CONSERVATIVES IN MODERN America face a chronic problem in running for office. Often believing government to be the enemy, they have to explain to themselves and others why they want to join that enemy.

There is much to dislike about President Obama's approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch.

Toward the end of the 1964 presidential campaign, Reagan gives a speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater. It was like a screen test for a new career.

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters - a very religious, ultraconservative community.

Even if you have a brain predisposed to liberalism, you might end up with some conservative friends or find inspiring conservative role models who could be very influential on you, and that could send you down a different track in life.