Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to oper...
Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government.
"I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal gover...
I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.
It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.
I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.
Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.
It is now an article of absolute faith among Republicans that 'the government' is an entity separate from 'the American people,' which they say the same way that the old Jesuits talked about 'the mystical Body of Christ.' It is now an ironclad comman...
While many of Mr. Obama's ideas warrant skepticism, conservative opposition to any expanded role for government is a mistake.
This is not about being liberal. This is not about being conservative. This is about making sure our government works for all Americans.
A conservative government survives essentially by dampening expectations and subduing hopes. Conservatism is basically pessimistic; reformism is basically optimistic.
Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government.
As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.
And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will ...
Conservatism has always been about reforming government and solving problems, and that's why the conservative movement should lead on immigration reform.
In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.
Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or indi...
