Any Quote by Rick Perlstein

To me, conservative means believing in a minimum amount of government and a maximum amount of freedom - and keeping government out of people's…

— Lyn Nofziger

“Liberal” in the nineteenth-century United States and Europe designated people who in many, but not all, respects would be called conservatives in the twenty-first…

— Richard White

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

— Mort Sahl

Sometimes, it might be called conservative; sometimes it might be called liberal. But the point is that the meaning of the Constitution and other…

— John Cornyn

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. In all those things which deal with the people's money or their…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve…

— Dan Rather

In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other…

— Camille Paglia

A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

— James Fitzjames Stephen

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

— Ambrose Bierce

'Conservative,' to me, means someone that has an appreciation for the Constitution, that has an appreciation for a limited government and has an appreciation…

— Tomi Lahren

But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have…

— Stephen Harper

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

— Preston Manning