Abstract Quote by Arthur C. Brooks

Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor.

— Mark W. Smith

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

— Mike Rosen

The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.

— Ted Cruz

I like the Growth and Opportunity Project. These are good conservative values, proving the core of the GOP is just that: conservative.

— L. Brent Bozell, Jr

The abjectly poor, and all those person whose energies are entirely absorbed by the struggle for daily sustenance, are conservative because they cannot afford…

— Thorstein Veblen

Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.

— Robert Reich

Conservatives have a deeper intellect and tend to have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science, and economics. Liberals, on the other…

— Dick Armey

Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity.

— Rush Limbaugh

Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will…

— E. J. Dionne

“Liberals are more likely to see people as victims of circumstance and oppression, and doubt whether individuals can climb without governmental help. My own…

— Arthur C. Brooks

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

— James Fitzjames Stephen

Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was…

— Barney Frank