Quotes About Conservatives

Conservatives: Self-hating moral relativists, unless you can convince me that an intellectual class that publicly praises family values but privately engages in sodomy, coke and trophy wives is more aptly described in some other way.

Liberals: The stupidest and weakest members of the political triumvirate, they allowed conservatives to turn their name into a slur against them, exposing them as the political equivalent of the kid who lets the school bully pummel him with his own fists (Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself).

It was a well-balanced family with its conservatives and its radicals, its dreamers and its realists.

All in all it was a good firm-grounded family, permanent, and successfully planted in the Salinas Valley, not poorer than many and not richer than many either. It was a well-balanced family with its conservatives and its radicals, its dreamers and its realists. Samuel was well pleased with the fruit of his loins.

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.

Because everyone knows liberals have never been wrong about anything. You can ask them. Anytime.

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate.

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue.

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

He lambasted warmongering conservatives "going to bible study 3 times a week . . . blessing the bombs we drop on women and children . . . and cursing the godlessness of this culture.

The conservatives who say, "Let us not move so fast," and the extremists who say, "Let us go out and whip the world," would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free.

On economics, crime, and welfare, the Clinton presidency offered plenty for conservatives to like. They never forgave him for it.

Buckley warned, "Those conservatives who take sly pleasure from Wallace's techniques should reflect that that kind of thing is do-able against anybody at all; do-able for instance by the Folsomite Wallace of yesteryear, who roared his approval of his candidate's attack on the 'Wall Street Gotrocks,' 'the damned decency crowd,' and 'them Hoover Republicans

Then there are other conservatives—many I know—who have more in common with Andrew Jackson than with Edmund Burke. Their hope is to build cultural siege-cannon out of the populist steel of Idaho, Mississippi, and working-class Milwaukee, and then blast the Eastern liberal establishment to ideo-institutional smithereens.

While conservatives like to put the focus for health on individual responsibility and "lifestyle," a term they use as a weapon, Geronimus's research reminds us of the social, interconnected nature of our bodies and our health, and the way that racism exacts debilitating vigilance from Black bodies.

Harper's Conservatives have used three basic methods to undermine environmental stewardship in Canada: reduce the government's capacity to gather data; downsize or eliminate offices that monitor and analyze scientific information; and seize control of channels of scientific information and prevent the publication or release of any information that could interfere with government policy.

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

The Constitution is like a "No Guns Zone" sign for conservatives, in that the only people it would bind are those who are already generally honest and peaceable. The ones who would lie or commit harm would simply look at the piece of paper and scoff. With unrelenting logic, Spooner dissects the sanctity of the Constitution and demonstrates that it cannot be said to have moral authority over anyone.

Bannon averred: "When you take out all the never-Trump guys who signed all those letters and all the neocons who got us in all these wars … it's not a deep bench.

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.

It seemed like the military was stalling, and the president wasn't challenging this tactic out of fear of upsetting conservatives. (Not until Obama's second term would the administration painfully come to realize the futility of pandering to people who would never meet them halfway.)

Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

If we conservatives "of color" refuse to promote the welfare state, unfettered abortion, affirmative action, and massive immigration, we are guilty of "selling out.