Quotes About Conservatism

It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.

You put a car on the road which may be driving by the letter of the law, but compared to the surrounding road users, it's acting very conservatively. This can lead to situations where the autonomous car is a bit of a fish out of water.

In certain quarters, conservatism is simply racism by another name. And minorities who openly identify themselves as conservatives are still novelties, fish out of water.

The revival of the Right is as extraordinary as it would be if the public had demanded dozens of new nuclear plants in the days after the Three Mile Island disaster; if we had reacted to Watergate by making Richard Nixon a national hero.

To understand the fanatic rejection of women's liberation in the Muslim world, one has to take into account the time factor. Most of us educated women have illiterate mothers. The conservative wave against women in the Muslim world is a defense mechanism against profound changes in both sex roles and the touchy subject of sexual identity.

If liberalism discredited itself, Obama woulda never gotten elected, and the New Deal woulda gone by the wayside, and LBJ woulda never gotten the Great Society. Liberalism does not discredit itself. It has to be explained and beaten back.

There have been plenty of little changes down the years but what's never been changed is that the fact that marriage is between a man and a woman.

I'm a conservative classical writer.

We must combat ill-advised conservative-led state legislation by encouraging every eligible person you know to vote.

Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.

We have to make conservatism cool and exciting again.

The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.

Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism.

Condemnatory conservatism isn't anything I'm interested in.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

I see a bright, bright future for the Republican Party and conservatism in general.

Conservatism is the new counterculture.

Conservatism accomplished a lot of its goals in the latter part of the 20th century. What does 21st-century conservatism look like?

Social conservatism was really bringing me down. And I realized, as time went on, that I wasn't a Bush conservative. I was really a libertarian.

While I loved my family, I would always have this association with my father. I would always be coming up against that conservatism. It was just liberating to be in London.

I want to reignite the idea of community with a positive conservatism in which the word 'development' has a new connotation, kind of like a social revolution.

'National Review' came along, in '55, at the moment when American conservatism most needed it.

Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.

As an 18-year-old, I really sensed the call of God. What was interesting about that time was, I come from a very conservative part of the body of Christ, so there was really nothing for a woman to do.