Believe Quote by Ben Domenech

“But for a younger generation of conservative operatives who would soon rise to power... They were true believers who meant what they said, whether…

— Barack Obama

Social conservatism was really bringing me down. And I realized, as time went on, that I wasn't a Bush conservative. I was really a…

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

“They would brilliantly co-opt the conservatives and the Christian churches, and when they had the power to do so, they would turn on them…

— Eric Metaxas

America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers…

— Dick Armey

“Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.”

— Iain Banks

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

— Christopher Lasch

I always thought of myself a fiscal conservative, and that's what really brought me to the party. It wasn't really my social conservative value.

— Leslyn Lewis

“Christians can disagree about public policy in good faith, and a libertarian and a social democrat can both claim to be living out the…

— Ross Douthat

“Old Conservatism, at least in its more principled forms, is, as has been aptly said, the ‘other God that failed’ alongside Communism and radical…

— Anthony Giddens

...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.

— Adolf Hitler

“They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the country backwards…

— Robert Reich

I thought the whole idea of being a conservative was to keep the government from messing around in people's lives. And yet they say…

— Edward Zigler