Quotes About Conservative

Ralph Peters, a conservative uber-hawk and former army intelligence officer who in early 2018 resigned in disgust as a Fox commentator. In a scorching letter of resignation leaked to BuzzFeed, he wrote, "Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.

The Canada we know and love will not survive another four years of Stephen Harper and his Conservative government.

They're convinced that the more conservative you are the more orthodox you are. They're more Catholic than the Pope.

I have also seen the sinner's prayer abused. Some conservative churches treat the prayer like a magical incantation that guarantees an individual's salvation.

Smith was as conservative as it got in American politics, but he figured that part of conservatism meant conserving things.

A new ideological struggle has emerged between Russia and the West, not between communism and capitalism but between democracy and autocracy. Putin also has championed a new set of populist, nationalist, conservative ideas antithetical to the liberal, international order anchored by the United States. Putinism now has admirers in Western democracies, just as communism did during the Cold War. Europe is divided again between East and West; the line has just moved farther east.

The ability to be tough-minded remains useful; but by now, the fact that we are all in trouble in terms of both nature and culture can only be denied by those who become overly conservative and blindly reactionary. The more tender-hearted imagination that suggests we are all in this together and that there must be an underlying unity in life may be the only way to survive.

The conundrum was that conservative media saw Trump as its creature, while Trump saw himself as a star, a vaunted and valued product of all media, one climbing ever higher. It was a cult of personality, and he was the personality. He was the most famous man in the world. Everybody loved him—or ought to.

He clearly did not understand that what conservative media elevated, liberal media would necessarily take down.

In Trump's 2011 CPAC address he specifically calls for a relaxation of immigration restrictions for Europeans . . . that we should re-create an America that was far more stable and more beautiful. . . . No other conservative politician would say those things . . . but on the other hand pretty much everyone thought it . . . so it's powerful to say it. . . . Clearly [there's] a normalization process going on.

elevated, liberal media would necessarily take down. Trump, goaded by Bannon, would continue to do the things that would delight conservative media and incur the wrath of liberal media. That was the program. The more your supporters loved you, the more your antagonists hated you. That's how it was supposed to work. And that's how it was working.

Cette doctrine s'étage sur plusieurs plans : à partir d'un héritage soviétique assumé et d'un libéralisme feint, le premier plan est une vision conservatrice. Le deuxième, une théorie de la Voie russe. Le troisième, un rêve impérial inspiré des penseurs eurasistes. Le tout sous le signe d'une philosophie à prétention scientifique.

It will all be much easier for the conservatives, who are in even worse shape, and who never cared about education—they hardly even know what education is.

how we've now got to be "magnanimous" and not "sore winners," as the prominent conservative columnist George Will put it in his criticism of the mythical gay activists who supposedly took down Eich.

Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It doesn't matter if you're a conservative stay at home mom, work at home mom, or work outside the home mom. If you're Right, the Left is gonna hate.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

The theocracy, like other autocratic political systems, is the most conservative form of social structure. Modern democracies, for all their flaws, have evolved as mature political systems that protect against the religious and secular excesses of totalitarian regimes. Democracies do not declare war against each other, as Kant claimed in his essay, Perpetual Peace (1795), because he thought that a majority of the people would never vote to go to war unless in self defense.

In other words, they were unwilling to tolerate conservative speech, which they were intolerant of conservative speech.

Although it costs taxpayers more than twice as much to send an 18-year-old to prison as to university, politicians reap greater rewards from lobbyists and conservative voters for building cells than for building classrooms.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

shoot for a more conservative guy with the Seventh-Day Adventists on Saturday.

In the mainstream of evangelicalism, where female senior pastors were often unwelcome, most leaders and laypeople had adopted the conservative Reformed view of gender and had forgotten (or never knew of) women's leadership in the moral crusades of the nineteenth century, or even their prominence as Bible teachers, relief workers, and missionaries prior to the 1930s.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.