Conservative Quotes

• People of good character are not all going to come down on the same side of difficult political and social issues. Good people - people of character and moral literacy - can be conservative, and good people can be liberal. We must not permit our disputes over thorny political questions to obscure the obligation we have to offer instruction to all our young people in the area in which we have, as a society, reached a consensus: namely, on the importance of good character, and some of its pervasive particulars.

  

  William Bennett
  • People
  • Character
  • Political

• My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Conservative
  • My Father
  • Abused

• The right to do something doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

  

  Michael Steele
  • Things
  • Right
  • Conservative

• I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

  

  Nikki Haley
  • Conservative
  • Senators
  • Legislators

• We've got a major problem, we've got a divide between the left, which understands how vital Hollywood and propaganda in communications is, and a conservative movement that thinks "no, we're the ones who are going to solve all the issues in America, we're congressmen, how could you not trust us?".

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Thinking
  • America
  • Problem

• What yells out at the US public . . . is the incandescent hypocrisy of so many people who, in the name of free speech, persecute its practitioners if their opinions are conservative.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Hypocrisy

• They Republicans say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.

  

  Sharron Angle
  • Republican
  • Conservative
  • Wacky

• The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evidence makes you a 'racist.'

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Racism
  • Evidence
  • Racist

• I think that we're always gonna be in a position as Republicans and as conservatives where we gotta be willing to stand up for our conservative values. And certainly, you know, at the top of that list is a strong national defense, the importance of a United States military that is superior to all others in the world.

  

  Liz Cheney
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • You

• I'm a very conservative personal politically.

  

  Bill Bright
  • Conservative
  • Politically

• 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.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Freedom
  • Small
  • Moral

• How is it that I became a conservative from being a liberal? It's because I witnessed how liberals behaved to a conservative. They treated him poorly. Had I not seen that, I wouldn't have opened my eyes.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Treated

• A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • History
  • Yelling
  • Urges

• I'm a Conservative, but I talk for the ordinary working classes. I get on with the boys at the pub, but I can also mix with Prince Andrew. I understand both levels. The toffs haven't lived in council estates; they've just known big mansions. How can they understand how the postman feels? I would never say no to becoming an MP.

  

  Vinnie Jones
  • Boys
  • Conservative
  • Postman

• I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Acknowledge

• The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Conservative
  • Liberal
  • Axis

• Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

  

  William Bennett
  • May
  • Prove
  • Boundaries

• What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.

  

  John G. Diefenbaker
  • Politics
  • Cactus
  • Caucus

• If you're not sure about whether to support Mitt Romney, whether you're liberal, or whether you're very conservative, you ought to be excited, because he's been on your side at one time or another. So I'm not completely misunderstood. I'm not as excited as I am desperate.

  

  Louie Gohmert
  • Time
  • Support
  • Republican

• I'm kind of conservative. I like to build on what I've done in the past and try something new.

  

  Cliff Martinez
  • Done
  • Past
  • Build

• I have gay friends in my life who are conservative. I have gay friends in my life who are for gay marriage and against gay marriage. I believe in an open and free debate.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Friends

• Despite its professed radicalism, the Republican party had obviously become the conservative party, spokesman of vested interests and big business, defender of an elaborate system of tariffs, subsidies, currency laws, privileged banks, railroads, and corporations, a system entrenched in the law by Republicans while the voters were diverted by oratory about Reconstruction, civil rights, and Southern atrocities.

  

  C. Vann Woodward
  • Party
  • Republican
  • Radicalism

• The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Society
  • Free
  • Politics

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