Quotes About Conservatives

I think that one of the errors that social conservatives made - particularly Christian social conservatives - was a belief that they needed to use the power of government to try to shore up the various things that they believe make up a life well-lived.

The media doesn't understand conservatives at all.

When people say, 'Well, I don't talk to my family because they're all conservatives,' or 'I don't talk to my family because they're racist,' I'm, like, 'No, no, no; that's exactly who you need to be talking to.'

Conservatives have to be more than just Liberals who are good at math.

Conservatives need to show Canadians our positive vision and why Conservatives believe what we believe.

All I know is that Conservatives aren't interested in helping anybody but themselves get richer.

We Conservatives believe not in big, interventionist, centralized government. But in small and limited government, government as close to the people as possible.

We have got schools that can absolutely stand on their own two feet, and I think that's what we should be doing as Conservatives.

Politics might be religion for the Left, but conservatives understand there is more to life than politics.

Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

We got our freedom and our liberty from the Creator, from God. That is a lesson conservatives have to remember.

Conservatives believe in individual choice for all parents and pupils, regardless of social or economic background, and our Better School Passport would tackle these problems head on by encouraging innovation to create new schools on one hand, while giving real choice and diversity to parents on the other.

Kamala Harris is a serious person who as California attorney general tried to tackle tough social problems in a way that most conservatives would support.

Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.

Amazingly, quite a few people, even some American conservatives, are taken in by Russian tactics.

Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.

Conservatives have always embraced the idea of grammar schools - that giving a top tier education to bright children from working class backgrounds provides them with the opportunities their middle class counterparts take for granted.

Few Conservatives MPs have taken any pleasure from the witch-hunt against moderate Labour MPs by the hard-Left Momentum group.

There are plenty of good, rational, compassionate and talented conservatives who deserve a microphone and a platform. It's time to pass the baton to a new generation of leaders who don't speak - or think - like Archie Bunker.

Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.

I think talk radio belongs to conservatives now after the last 20, 30 years of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, my colleagues at Salem, Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, Larry Elder.

Progressives resist the idea that fathers have a distinct role to play, afraid that this will somehow undermine mothers or belittle same-sex couples. So they recoil from any proposal that might smack of "fathers' rights." Conservatives meanwhile lament an epidemic of fatherlessness but simply want to restore traditional marriage, with clear and separate roles for men and women.

If you can get conservatives to sit down for 20 minutes and listen to you on drug policy reform you might have a good chance to - if not convert them - at least respect your opinion.