Children Quote by Nicholas Kristof

Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are three times…

— Nicholas Kristof

Many, many conservatives especially realize that ultimately at the end of the day people want to just focus on what's best for their families.

— Anna Paulina Luna

Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So…

— Gail Collins

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

One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior…

— Lyn Nofziger

I think what the Conservatives have done, scaling back welfare payment, is overwhelmingly positive. There's only a certain amount of welfare they can give…

— Georgia Toffolo

The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it.

— Roger Scruton

If the Left really wants to preserve family structure and advance cultural values such as work, why do they oppose reforms to a welfare…

— Stephen Moore

When my Republican colleagues talk about family values, they mean that a woman should not be able to have the right to control her…

— Bernie Sanders

“Conservatives are the “party of order and stability,” in Mill’s formulation. They generally resist the changes implemented by the “party of progress or reform.”…

— Jonathan Haidt

My family was inherently conservative in their values, in their belief system and how they conducted themselves from a fiscal and financial perspective, and…

— Leslyn Lewis

If you're a person of faith that is conservative, that's pro-life, as I am, that believes strongly in traditional family values, as I do...…

— Kevin Cramer