Conservative Quotes - Page 23

• ...only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as "nonpatisan, nonprofit." Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as "right-wing" or "conservative."

  Irving Kristol

  Wings, Organization, Research

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• The clothes do not match my personality. I'm more of a very conservative, blue-blazer kind of guy. But as far as my personality, it's a lot of hot-dog mustard - have a lot of a fun and a lot of excitement. I feel like I'm 68; I act like I'm 12, talking about a game of basketball.

  Dick Vitale

  Basketball, Dog, Fun

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• There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's fine, that's wonderful. What I am against is labelling. Nobody ever labels a child a cricketer because his father is a cricketer, but they do label a child a Catholic because his parents are Catholic. I think it's more or less unique. Nobody ever labels a child a socialist or a conservative or a liberal because that's what their parents are.

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Father, Unique

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". "Science Show" with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• Being a conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian.

  Bill Maher

  Hurt, Long, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My line is probably a little more conservative than some of my compatriots in the business. But again, I think it's all - like, it just - it comes down to me knowing who I am and knowing how I want to be seen in the world, how I want to discuss things.

  John Legend

  Thinking, Who I Am, Knowing

  "John Legend On Marriage, Music And 'Genius' Kanye West". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 31, 2013.

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• 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

  Daughter, Jobs, School

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• The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Lying, Radicalism, Facts

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.93, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• People have had certain ­assumptions in the past about ­Conservative governments, partly because of some of the things that happened in the 1980s, and partly because of the tone of some of the debate in the 1980s that appeared to say public spending on the arts was something you might want to progressively ­reduce.

  Jeremy Hunt

  Art, Past, Government

  "Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt: 'It is going to be tough'". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2010.

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• Most conservative and progressive talk radio is primarily just that - bloviated opinion and whacky viewer calls.

  David Shuster

  Radio, Opinion, Progressive

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• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Istanbul, Class, Western Culture

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• While, as I recall, conservative little boys practice quick draw with their cap guns while playing cowboys and Indians, apparently liberal little boys practice how fast they can throw up their hands to surrender to the guys in the black hats.

  Tony Blankley

  Gun, Boys, Cowboy

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• 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

  Benefits, Sinner

  "Liberalism Makes It Easier to be Bad". www.dennisprager.com. July 30, 2013.

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• Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.

  Dennis Prager

  Issues, White, Males

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• What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small l but sensible and pragmatic and with a chance of winning. Thats more or less the empty set.

  Tyler Cowen

  Winning, Libertarian, Chance

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• I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

  Bill Halter

  Issues, Progressive

  "Labor Unions Turn Against Lincoln", www.realclearpolitics.com. May 11, 2010.

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• We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.

  Vijay Mallya

  Class, Broken, Want

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• I balanced the budget for four straight years, paid off $405 billion in debt - pretty conservative. The first entitlement reform of your lifetime - in fact, the only major entitlement reform now is welfare.

  Newt Gingrich

  Years, Four, Firsts

  "Cain to Push Passage of 9-9-9 Plan if Conservative Republican Occupies White House". "Hannity", www.foxnews.com. December 16, 2011.

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• ...the differences between the conservative and the radical seem to
  spring mainly from their attitude toward the future. Fear of the
  future causes us to lean against and cling to the present, while faith
  in the future renders us receptive to change.

  Eric Hoffer

  Attitude, Spring, Differences

  Eric Hoffer (2011). “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• There are no conservatives in the United States. The United States does not have a conservative tradition. The people who call themselves conservatives, like the Heritage Foundation or Gingrich, are believers in -- are radical statists. They believe in a powerful state, but a welfare state for the rich.

  Noam Chomsky

  Powerful, Believe, People

  "On US Military Budgets". Interviewed with Ira Shorr, chomsky.info. February 11, 1996.

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• It is necessary to have a very liberal and simultaneously very conservative mentality to practice Tantric Zen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Mentality

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• Tantric Zen is not being kinky; nor is it being conservative and austere. It is eclectic. It is a real mixture of all things.

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Buddhism, Kinky

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• Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.

  Ann Coulter

  Two, Together, Sticks

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• My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.

  Rose Kennedy

  Daughter, Father, Innovators

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• Don't send your kids to Baylor. And don't send your kids to [Texas] A&M... Texas A&M used to be a conservative university. It's lost all of its conservatism.... My daughter went there. You know, she had horrible experiences with coed dorms and guys who spent the weekends in the rooms with girls.

  Tom DeLay

  Girl, Daughter, Kids

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• I grew up in the Fifties and early Sixties, which were still quite conservative, and I wasn't given any information about sex or anything like that... I went out with girls at school because one had to. I didn't experiment with sex for quite a long time.

  Elton John

  Girl, Sex, School

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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