Conservative Quotes

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do.
Nick Clegg

Justice, Political, Social

Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.
Jane Smiley

Fashion, Hold, Surface

A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.
Jarvis Cocker

Government, Necessary, Credible

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.
Jarvis Cocker

Good, Government, Far

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.
Jarvis Cocker

Two, Leader, Weird

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.
Allen West

Selfish, Philosophy, Liberal

The mistake I really learned from was in 2005, leading the Indianapolis 500. I had a decision whether or not to save enough fuel to finish the race - which meant slowing down - or going all-out for the win. I went conservative and saved enough fuel to go to the end but finished fourth.
Danica Patrick

End, Decision, Win

I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
Ted Cruz

Faith, Family, Patriotism

I don't know of a Democrat - whether they're a conservative, a centrist or a liberal Democrat - that doesn't think that it's important to have quality jobs that pay decent wages so that families can support themselves, so that they can have the dignity of being able to afford health care, put money aside for pension, buy a home.
Tom Vilsack

Health, Money, Home

It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.
Ann Romney

Experience, Living, Quite

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.
John Bolton

Social, Three, Economics

I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the 'Goldwater for President' campaign in 1964.
John Bolton

Old, Since, President

It is wrong to believe that Hispanics are Democrats. Hispanics are traditionally and historically conservative, not just socially conservative, but fiscally conservative.
Luis Fortuno

Wrong, Democrats, Hispanics

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.
Jeff Miller

Time, Political, Vote

A message I've been telling myself: the cinema is very conservative, and unless you have a story that satisfies you, that is within the unchallenging zone, but you love it, you can't do it as cinema. Otherwise, you better go do it for television, which is more daring now.
Jane Campion

Love, Story, Within

I think feature film can be quite conservative, because you have to now get audiences to come out, and it's quite a hard thing to do. Of course, television can be conservative too.
Jane Campion

Hard, Film, Quite

I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.
Jan Brewer

Liberal, Issues, Acceptable

I always try to keep a pretty conservative demeanor on the court.
Julius Erving

Pretty, Try, Keep

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.
Anthony Kiedis

Father, Him, Against

I wouldn't live in Chicago cause it's too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there.
Madonna Ciccone

Live, Fact, Lives

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
Madonna Ciccone

School, High, Felt

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

Describe, Total

In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.
Stockwell Day

Vote, Again, While

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.
Stockwell Day

Two, Actually, Liberal

I don't think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.
Brit Hume

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
Tom Wolfe

Liberal, Arrested

I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?
Chuck Norris

Good, Why, Start

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.
Mitch Daniels

Nothing, Outlook, Vigorous

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

Politics, Regret, Often

I thought I could do something different from any Conservative prime minister before me. But I couldn't.
John Major

Different, Thought, Before

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