American politics Quote by Howard Baker

I grew up in a small town in the Mojave Desert where conservative Republicans were as common as cacti. Inexplicably, I grew up liberal…

— Sabaa Tahir

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.

— Mike Huckabee

“conservative n. A person who possesses an underdeveloped taste for tyranny. liberal n. A person who believes in liberty, but only for the state.”

— Leslie Starr O'Hara

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

— Mort Sahl

I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.

— Gary Locke

I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution.

— Charlie Sykes

The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C.

— Andrew Breitbart

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

I became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and it was a reaction against political correctness,…

— David Brock

When I left the West Coast I was a liberal. When I landed in New York I was a revolutionary.

— Jane Fonda

I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used…

— Christopher Hitchens

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

— Irving Kristol