Quotes of: Conservative-government Keyword

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.

Jack Abramoff

There is a contradiction between market liberalism and political liberalism. The market liberals (e.g., social conservatives) of today want family values, less government, and maintain the traditions of society (at least in America's case). However, ...

Slavoj Zizek

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It sign...

Thomas Frank

Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other and we support each other. I don’t support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative.

David Cameron

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

Ken Kesey

I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.

Michael Moore

There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal.

Dennis Prager

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

Mohamed ElBaradei

I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

Candice S. Miller

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

John Stuart Mill

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

Matt Lauer

The test of leadership for David Cameron was actually to bring the British Conservative Party back in to the mainstream.

David Miliband

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

Bob Inglis

Mennonites are very conservative. They don't drink, dance, smoke, go to movies. I grew up in a very conservative faith-based community.

David A. R. White

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

Tom Wolfe

The Conservative party, the modern Conservative party, is on the side of people who want to work hard and get on.

George Osborne

The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.

Ted Cruz

Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

Harriet Harman

The new America, instead, is fast becoming a vast ghetto in which all of us, conservatives and progressives, are being bled dry by a relatively tiny oligarchy of extremely clever financial criminals and their castrato henchmen in government, whose jo...

Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

1776: A declaration of the Parlement of Paris: The first rule of justice is to conserve for each individual that which belongs to him. This is a fundamental rule of natural law, human rights and civil government; a rule which consists not only in mai...

A Place of Greater Safety

People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very cleve...

Terry Pratchett