Quotes on Conservative

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

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

Author: Hannah Arendt

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

I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.

Author: Glenn Beck

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

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

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

Compared to the United States, physicians in Europe have a much more conservative approach to joint replacement in general.

Author: Allen Boyd

I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

Author: David Brock

It's my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.

Author: Vincent Bugliosi

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

I'm conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

Author: George Bush

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Author: Samuel Butler

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

Author: Herman Cain

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

All great peoples are conservative.

Author: Thomas Carlyle

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

If the Republican Party continues to ignore its conservative base, then the Party is headed to oblivion.

Author: Jerome Corsi

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

Author: Countee Cullen

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

Author: Frank Dane

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

Author: Stockwell Day

I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.

Author: James Denton

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

Author: Shannen Doherty

I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

Author: Bob Edwards

I'm a compassionate conservative.

Author: John Engler

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.

Author: Julius Erving

I am a conservative and proud of it.

Author: Carly Fiorina

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

Author: David Frost

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.

Author: John Galbraith

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

Author: Rube Goldberg

Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part.

Author: Paul Graham

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

Author: Jesse Helms

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.

Author: Jimi Hendrix

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

Author: A. Housman

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Author: Elbert Hubbard

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one.

Author: Douglas Jerrold

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

Author: Ken Kesey

I do not know which makes a man more conservative - to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.

Author: John Keynes

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Author: Martin King, Jr.

Bush is no conservative.

Author: Bill Kristol

I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.

Author: Lisa Kudrow

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

Author: Christopher Lasch

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Author: Rich Lowry

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.

Author: John Machen

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

Author: Bill Maher

Conservative's the last thing I am.

Author: Ewan McGregor

Reaching out to Hispanics is critical to our future. The fastest-growing, and most conservative, segment of the population are natural Republicans.

Author: Ken Mehlman

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

Author: Christopher Meloni

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.

Author: Rick Mercer

I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

Author: Candice Miller

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.

Author: Christine O'Donnell

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

Author: Daniel Okrent

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.

Author: Ron Paul

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

Author: John Podhoretz

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

Author: Jon Postel

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

Author: Frank Rizzo

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Author: Franklin Roosevelt

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

Author: Leo Rosten

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

Author: Mort Sahl

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.

Author: Rick Santorum

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.

Author: Robert Scheer

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.

Author: Charles Schumer

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.

Author: Pete Seeger

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.

Author: Jay Sekulow

It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?

Author: Yahoo Serious

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.

Author: Martin Sheen

You know, I'm a Republican, I'm a Conservative, I voted for George Bush.

Author: Tom Tancredo

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.

Author: Denis Thatcher

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.

Author: Clarence Thomas

I'm as conservative as they come.

Author: Matthew Vaughn

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.

Author: Zach Wamp

Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.

Author: Paul Weyrich

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.

Author: Paul Weyrich

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

Author: Paul Weyrich

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.

Author: Theodore White

I'm actually quite conservative.

Author: Peta Wilson

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Author: Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Author: Woodrow Wilson

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

Author: Tom Wolfe

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

Author: Tom Wolfe