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If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
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Tom Wolfe
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A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
Author:
Tom Wolfe
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
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Woodrow Wilson
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A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
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Woodrow Wilson
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I'm actually quite conservative.
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Peta Wilson
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A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
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Theodore White
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The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.
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Paul Weyrich
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Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.
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Paul Weyrich
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Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.
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Paul Weyrich
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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Zach Wamp
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I'm as conservative as they come.
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Matthew Vaughn
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Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.
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Clarence Thomas
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The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.
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Denis Thatcher
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You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush.
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Tom Tancredo
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What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.
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Martin Sheen
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It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
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Yahoo Serious
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The president does not have any obligation to make a consensus appointment here. What the president's obligation is, is to pick a judicial conservative, and I believe that's what he's gonna do.
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Jay Sekulow
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I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.
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Pete Seeger
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Whether you are a Democrat or Republican, whether you are a liberal or a conservative, we know that neither this President nor prior Presidents of both parties did everything right or we would not have had a 9/11.
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Charles Schumer
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The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.
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Robert Scheer
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If the most liberal man that's ever been in office can get elected when 20 percent of the population identifies as liberal then I think we can elect a conservative when 40 percent of the population identifies themselves as conservative.
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Rick Santorum
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A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
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Mort Sahl
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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
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Leo Rosten
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
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Franklin Roosevelt
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A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.
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Frank Rizzo
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Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
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Jon Postel
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I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
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John Podhoretz
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How did we win the election in the year 2000? We talked about a humble foreign policy: No nation-building; don't police the world. That's conservative, it's Republican, it's pro-American - it follows the founding fathers. And, besides, it follows the Constitution.
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Ron Paul
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I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.
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Daniel Okrent
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The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.
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Christine O'Donnell
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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Candice Miller
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In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.
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Rick Mercer
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But I came from a conservative Republican background.
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Christopher Meloni
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Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans.
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Ken Mehlman
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Conservative's the last thing I am.
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Ewan McGregor
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The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.
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Bill Maher
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Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.
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John Machen
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Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.
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Rich Lowry
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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
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Christopher Lasch
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I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.
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Lisa Kudrow
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Bush is no conservative.
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Bill Kristol
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When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
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John Keynes
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If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?
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Ken Kesey
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A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one.
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Douglas Jerrold
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A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
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Elbert Hubbard
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The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
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A. Housman
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White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
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Jimi Hendrix
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It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.
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Jesse Helms
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Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.
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Paul Graham
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Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.
Author:
Rube Goldberg
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
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John Galbraith
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Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.
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David Frost
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I am a conservative and proud of it.
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Carly Fiorina
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I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.
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Julius Erving
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I'm a compassionate conservative.
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John Engler
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I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
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Bob Edwards
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I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.
Author:
Shannen Doherty
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I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.
Author:
James Denton
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Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.
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Stockwell Day
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A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.
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Frank Dane
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I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
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Countee Cullen
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If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.
Author:
Jerome Corsi
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Conservative think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute have criticized Bush for his big increases in spending, which far exceed those of the Clinton era.
Author:
Jim Cooper
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All great peoples are conservative.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Nevada's one of the most conservative states in the Union, but you can do what you want in Vegas and nobody judges you.
Author:
Drew Carey
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I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.
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Herman Cain
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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
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George Bush
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I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways.
Author:
Augusten Burroughs
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It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
Author:
Vincent Bugliosi
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I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.
Author:
David Brock
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Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.
Author:
Allen Boyd
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
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Ambrose Bierce
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One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.
Author:
Jeffrey Bernard
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I'd like to have a drink with Bill Maher and see how he feels. We were too conservative coming over to Fox from fX, and got ourselves off our best game.
Author:
Tom Bergeron
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I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.
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Glenn Beck
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What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.
Author:
Glenn Beck
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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Author:
Hannah Arendt
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And truly, when you look at the Constitution and our founding fathers and their writings, the things that made this country great, you might draw those conclusions: That they were conservative. They were fiscally conservative and socially conservative.
Author:
Sharron Angle
