I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not…

I am admittedly eccentric and very silly and I laugh all day and it makes me laugh that people think that I'm going to…

— Grace Dent

“Social conservatives seem to see a bigger threat to marriage from committed gay couples who want in on it than from straight ones who…

— Margaret Talbot

As much as the social conservatives might not like to hear it, there will be a time when your grandchildren say: 'What was the…

— Jim Kolbe

Yeah, I think that social conservatives recognize that they didn't just lose the debate about same-sex marriage. They lost the debate about the institution…

— Ross Douthat

“For years, social conservatives have been fighting to prevent certain people from getting married. But they’re waging a parallel battle, too: Trying to keep…

— Anonymous

I think that one of the errors that social conservatives made - particularly Christian social conservatives - was a belief that they needed to…

— Ben Domenech

“...the people at the top know what they have to do to stay there, and in a pinch they can easily overlook the sweaty…

— Thomas Frank

Many social conservatives want to encourage married couples to have children, and it is becoming increasingly difficult if the couple feels strapped and concerned…

— Mercedes Schlapp

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics…

— John Bolton

Social conservatives say who drives the bus.

— Richard Land

we should reject the attempt to divert the national conversation away from soaring inequality toward the alleged moral failings of those Americans being left…

— Paul Krugman

Social conservatives are very focused on strengthening the family, and I think they are right to do so. One of the worst blind spots…

— Jonathan Haidt

Social conservatives have been involved in the pro-life movement for decades.

— Mollie Hemingway

“Social conservatives from the right wing of the Republican party, who do not like globalization or closer integration with the world because it brings…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“If I – as a beneficiary of that exact formula – will concede that my own life was indeed enriched by that precise familial…

— Elizabeth Gilbert