Conservative Quotes
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I don`t know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that`s state of the art?
Senator John Kerry
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To be conservative.....is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to...
Michael Oakeshott
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A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man`s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth
Jacques Barzun
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A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they`re dead.
Leo Rosten
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If a conservative is a liberal who`s been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who`s been arrested
Thomas Wolfe
Subject: Liberalism QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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If a conservative is a liberal who`s been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who`s been arrested
Thomas Wolfe
Subject: Liberalism QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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If you`re a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you`re a conservative, anything you say is hateful.
Laura Schlessinger
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A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin Disraeli
Subject: Conservatives QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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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
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Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Mark Twain
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The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Mark Twain
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A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson
Subject: Conservatives QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson
Subject: Politics QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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I wouldn`t live in Chicago cause it`s too conservative, aside for the fact that Oprah Winfrey lives there. (from her documentary, "In Bed with Madonna_qv" )
Madonna Ciccone
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I registered as a Republican when I was twenty-one. My parents were Republicans. But as I`ve gotten older I`ve questioned my whole conservative background ... I think you should be fair about how you treat people.
Kevin Costner
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I`m a liberal at heart; I don`t want to vote Conservative. I`d vote Green, but I know it`s a wasted vote or whatever, but it`s the only party with integrity. I`m not saying we live in a dictatorship, in a fascist regime, because that`s really disrespectfu...
Sienna Miller
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I`d like to grab an opportunity to finally lay to rest a much quoted untruth about my political leanings. I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his doing that was a hangover ...
Phil Collins
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I`d like to grab an opportunity to finally lay to rest a much quoted untruth about my political leanings. I have never been a Conservative, or at least not since being a young teenager. My father voted Conservative, and even his doing that was a hangover ...
Phil Collins
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I have found a certain type calls himself a liberal . . . Now I always thought I was a liberal. I came up terribly surprised one time when I found out that I was a right-wing conservative extremist, when I listened to everybody`s point of view that I ever...
John Wayne
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[on his role in "The Daily Show" (1996)]: Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center. [March 2003].
Jon Stewart
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How do we escape who we are? I think going to college, I felt freer. I loved the clean slate. I wasn`t known as the sort of nerdy, studious girl. I met gay people for the first time in my life. I needed that expansion from a very conservative little town.
Joan Allen
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I know a couple of my friends - quite a few - there is a conservative movement in Hollywood, and we kind of stay amongst ourselves.
Robert Davi
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Even more than MGM, Disney [in the early 1960s] was the most conservative studio in town....They were growing aware. They weren`t stupid. They could add two and two, and I think they were beginning to suspect my homosexuality. I noticed people in certain ...
Tommy Kirk
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These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist. (2003)
Jane Russell
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I think David Lynch really adored the Fifties - the simplicity, the conservative attitude - and I think the show, though it has a timeless feeling, is kind of Fifties also. The saddle shoes are part of that - Audrey knows she can be daddy`s little girl in...
Sherilyn Fenn
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People have been asking me for thirty-five years if I was losing jobs because of my conservative politics. I`ve never felt that was the case.
Charlton Heston
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[when asked if he has disappointed his conservative fans by directing Million Dollar Baby (2004)] Well, I got a big laugh out of that. These people are always bitching about "Hollyweird", and then they start bitching about this film. Are they all so mad b...
Clint Eastwood
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