Quotes About Conservative Politics

#1. We are witnessing the criminalization of conservative politics.

Tom DeLay

#2. Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.

John Bercow

#3. Christians who like to write might do as a description of the genus. But the actual species shared more precise characteristics, including intellectual vivacity, love of death, conservative politics, memories of war, and a passion for beef, beer, and verbal battle.

Philip Zaleski

#4. How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#5. To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Douglas Wilson

#6. If we conservatives "of color" refuse to promote the welfare state, unfettered abortion, affirmative action, and massive immigration, we are guilty of "selling out.

Michelle Malkin

#7. Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

John Major

#8. Am I a liberal or conservative? I'm neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I'd like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me.

Soledad O'Brien

#9. That effort to undermine competitive markets is no better in the market for labor than it is for goods and services.

Richard A. Epstein

#10. A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

Fred Thompson

#11. Without idealism, politics is reduced to a form of social accounting, the day-to-day administration of men and things. This too is something that a conservative can survive well enough. But for the Left it is a catastrophe.

Tony Judt

#12. The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.

Steve Jobs

#13. Speaker Ryan, who voted for the $1.1 trillion 2016 Omnibus Spending Bill, demanding Trump show him his conservative credentials is as though a guy who never built a thing were to mock a man who has built lots of things.

Ilana Mercer

#14. Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.

Greg Gutfeld

#15. At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.

Philip Slater

#16. A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes.

Marsha Blackburn

#17. 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

#18. I am a Conservative: Barack Obama is the Hans Gruber of American politics. #caring

Kurt Schlichter

#19. A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Woodrow Wilson

#20. I think that's one thing that, you know, we all need to remember is that, you know, politics, even though it's been really rough, is that we are all human beings first. And that it is more important for us to have civil dialogue. And you know what? I'm conservative, but I'm not mad about it.

Marlin Stutzman

#21. Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means ... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.

Kingsley Amis

#22. Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

Walker Percy

#23. I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

Debbie Harry

#24. The sense that just about anything goes with the collection of public revenues and the making of public expenditure has contributed mightily to the current malaise.

Richard A. Epstein

#25. There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

Barack Obama

#26. That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

Thomas Jefferson

#27. The pillars of classical liberalism call for flat taxes, with revenues put to limited uses; strong property rights; and free markets.

Richard A. Epstein

#28. You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

Winston Churchill

#29. In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

Howard Baker

#30. I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.

Tim Scott

#31. (A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

Tammy Bruce

#32. Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.

Mark McKinnon

#33. When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

John Bercow

#34. I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.

Richie Furay

#35. It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.

Richard Prince

#36. Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

Rich Lowry

#37. A desire to rescue secular America from fallen grace has driven conservative evangelicals at least since the 1970s, when Jerry Falwell formed the Moral Majority as a vehicle for conservative Christians to muscle their way into national politics.

Nina Easton

#38. Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Kurt Vonnegut

#39. I was just born involved in politics. My family is conservative Mormon, and so I was born - although the Mormon faith is not inherently political, their faith requires some political stands, and those are ones that I happen to disagree with vehemently - so I was just political from a very early age.

Kyrsten Sinema

#40. Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

Jonah Goldberg

#41. The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

Mark Levin

#42. I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

John Key

#43. ...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.

David Welch

#44. Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.

Edward Brooke

#45. They were more than hostile. In the first place, I was a south Georgian and I was looked upon as a fiscal conservative, and the Atlanta newspapers quite erroneously, because they didn't know anything about me or my background here in Plains, decided that I was also a racial conservative.

Jimmy Carter

#46. This is what happens in politics. The establishment doesn't like Ted Cruz either. It's not just [Donald] Trump. That's because he is who he is. He is conservative. He does want to get government out of people's lives and that - we can't have that in the establishment.

Rush Limbaugh

#47. I don't know how many parts I've lost because a lot of the politics in California are very conservative, and I'm fairly outspoken. I always tried to get as much politics in as I could, because I do believe in class struggle, and I think that's what's left out.

James Cromwell

#48. I've got to put forward a very strong conservative voice, advocate for conservative values and advocate for principle in politics to restore faith in politics.

Cory Bernardi

#49. I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#50. I don't have time to put up with the politics. Who's a Democrat? Who's a Republican? Who's liberal? Who's conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That's what I'm concerned about.

Charles Barkley

#51. As guardians of a continuity of religious and racial tradition" the Zionists were, Balfour decided, "a great conservative force in world politics." Immediately

Barbara W. Tuchman

#52. The conservative thinks of political policies as intended to preserve order, justice, and freedom. The ideologue, on the contrary, thinks of politics as a revolutionary instrument for transforming society and even transforming human nature. In his march toward Utopia, the ideologue is merciless.

Russell Kirk

#53. He had an AM radio playing a conservative talk show. The host was making some very interesting statements about the president. I don't usually pay much attention to politics, but from what the man said, I had to believe that sometime in the recent past the laws regarding sedition must have changed.

Jeff Lindsay

#54. But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things.

T. S. Eliot

#55. The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#56. A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Woodrow Wilson

#57. I already see what kind of man he is, this Valentin. The sort who will adduce an array of liberal reasons for voting for a conservative.

Momus

#58. A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics as played by liberals. And that I think what they're trying to say is that progressives are the first to say.

Dahlia Lithwick

#59. Thatcher set ordinary people free, but into a landscape that her other policies had already shaped to suit other, more powerful interests, such as large corporations or Britons with inherited wealth.

Andy Beckett

#60. Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

Edward Abbey

#61. If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist.

Joseph Sobran

#62. We [he and his wife Trish Van Devere] don't talk politics. I'm an independent conservative; she's a radical Democrat. We never vote together.

George C. Scott

#63. Mr. Audley, never having been in politics, treated them a little more seriously. Sometimes he even embarrassed the company by phrases suggesting that there was some difference between a Liberal and a Conservative.

G.K. Chesterton

#64. As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.

Lauren Graham

#65. It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

Frank Gaffney

#66. There are people who are surprised at my politics and being a conservative and the rest of it. But the truth of the matter is, to my knowledge, I have never been overlooked or turned down for anything that I wanted to do that was being offered to me.

Wayne Newton

#67. When conservative judges strike down laws, it's because of what's in the Constitution. When liberal judges strike down laws (or impose new laws), it's because of what's in the New York Times

Ann Coulter

#68. I will continue my involvement in politics through Lord Ashcroft Polls and my political publishing interests: Conservative Home, Biteback Publishing and Dods.

Michael Ashcroft

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

Ambrose Bierce

#70. We have successful, strong-willed, independent women who stand up for conservative, traditional values. Women are leading this movement because they've been raised to be unafraid....I didn't grow up feeling oppressed. I didn't grow up feeling like a victim.

S. E. Cupp

#71. The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.

Richard A. Epstein

#72. Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

David Horowitz

#73. I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ.

Ann Coulter

#74. People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

Greg Gutfeld

#75. A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Leonard Bernstein

#76. Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Aristotle.

#77. I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.

Benjamin Disraeli

#78. Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It doesn't matter if you're a conservative stay at home mom, work at home mom, or work outside the home mom. If you're Right, the Left is gonna hate.

Michelle Malkin

#79. Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition.

Alasdair MacIntyre

#80. The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,
because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#81. Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#82. I'm a committed Republican. I believe very strongly in individual liberty. I tend not to think much in terms of group politics. I really am a kind of small government person and I'm most certainly a fiscal conservative and strong on national defense.

Condoleezza Rice

#83. Service is the rent we pay for the life we have been given.

Marian Wright Edelman

#84. It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.
It's not about being rich or poor, it's about being alive and happy.
It's not about being right, it's about being considerate and compassionate.

Karen L. Syed