Quotes About Conservative

I had a reputation of being somewhat moderate, partly, I think, because I wasn't a 'bomb thrower' like some of my conservative colleagues, and partly because I got along with people all across the political spectrum.

My parents were a little more on the hippie spectrum of Christianity - they weren't liberal Christians by any means, they were pretty conservative - but they preached mostly about love and caring for people, so I grew up with a lot of compassion and empathy.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn't believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

If some modern-day David Brock wanted to defect from the conservative movement and write a tell-all focused solely on the financial chicanery of the entire right-wing nonprofit/think tank/publishing sphere, I would read the absolute heck out of it.

The man of conservative temperament believes that a known good is not lightly to be surrendered for an unknown better.

All that Democrat/Republican stuff is bullshit, he said. And as far as liberal versus conservative, well, people are very promiscuous in the way the use those words. They don't really mean anything. Within those two camps there are very wide divisions. And between those two camps, there is a lot more overlap than you think. None of that bullshit really matters. The only thing that matters is values.

I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction.

There's every financial incentive in the world to stay in the conservative movement forever.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

The Gen X generation never got past 'Reality Bites,' apparently, and my generation, the Gen Yers... Facebook? Maybe a conservative revolution?

The great irony was that the punks were more conservative and narrow-minded and musically bigoted that anyone else.

On social questions, national defense, economic issues, I'm a strong conservative.

If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.

Before Donald Trump, the Republican Party was a majority conservative party with a white nationalist fringe. Now it's a white nationalist party with a conservative fringe.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

There are times when it is conservative to be a revolutionary, when the world must be turned on its head in order to be stood on its feet.

Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon.

Change comes through action. Balthasar once said to me, "There's no such thing as a conservative hero.

Change," Joshua said. "A Messiah has to bring change. Change comes through action. Balthasar once said to me, 'There's no such thing as a conservative hero.' He was wise, that old man.

Both her mom and dad were so right wing they were like one-winged birds forever flapping in circles.

the government of the country was conservative and, like all such governments, found it easier to get along with well-heeled and well-dressed Fascists than with ex-labor leaders and agitators, refugees who generally were destitute and frequently had jail records. This is something which applies to nearly all governments;