Conservative Quote by Frank Gaffney

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

— Irving Kristol

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

— Stockwell Day

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

— Frank Rizzo

A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet…

— Frank Rizzo

“A conservative is a libertarian who has been mugged.”

— Anonymous

The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

— Tom Wolfe

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to…

— Irving Kristol

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

— Leo Rosten

A liberal is a conservative whose conscience is on display

— Jerome Gioia

To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality.

— Don Feder

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

— Jesse Helms