Conservative Quotes

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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee- pad conservative.... — Edward Abbey
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no… — Edward Abbey
On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that… — Katrina vanden Heuvel
I am not a conservative â€” neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal. — Allan Bloom
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both… — Jacques Barzun
Exactly for the sake of what is new and revolutionary in every child, education must be conservative; it must preserve this newness and introduce it… — Hannah Arendt
Republicans should never abandon pro-growth conservative principles in an effort to embrace the ideas of Al Gore. — Mitt Romney
Afghanistan is a rural nation, where 85 percent of people live in the countryside. And out there it's very, very conservative, very tribal - almost… — Khaled Hosseini
Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it — John Gresham Machen
Merely because I was black, it seemed, I was supposed to listen to Hugh Maskela instead of Carole King, just as I was expected to… — Clarence Thomas
The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically. — Sidney Blumenthal
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.… — Christine O'Donnell
I am a conservative and proud of it. — Carly Fiorina
As a conservative, I maintain a healthy skepticism of the theory of man-made global warming. I also believe that more people enjoying the fruits of… — Gary Bauer
Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because… — Van Jones
Healing the wounds of the earth and its people does not require saintliness or a political party, only gumption and persistence. It is not a… — Paul Hawken
We now know that a neo-conservative is an arsonist who sets the house on fire and six years later boasts that no one can put… — Bill Moyers
I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open and… — Dean Ornish
Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a… — Hal Crowther
Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the… — John F. Kennedy

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