Conservative Quotes - Page 27

• Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

  David Frost

  Air, Castles, Vote

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.

  Bob Edwards

  Guy, News, Kind

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• The Conservative sees in the free market the harmony of interests and rules of cooperation that also underlie the civil society.

  Mark Levin

  Politics, Cooperation, Harmony

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.

  John Howard

  Mean, Government, Mixtures

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• People are not going to reelect Barack Obama. But will the new president govern as a real conservative? We're going to have to apply the heat to make sure.

  Steve Forbes

  Real, People, President

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.

  David Lloyd

  Strong, Government, Views

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• I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

  Michael Howard

  Party, Conservative Party

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• It is unfortunate that some in our party have lost sight of the importance of conservation and environmental protection for keeping America strong, healthy, prosperous, and secure. It's time for all of our Republican leaders to recognize that conservation is conservative.

  David Jenkins

  Strong, Party, Sight

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• A conservative is someone who does not think he is morally superior to his grandfather.

  John Howard

  Thinking, Grandfather, Doe

  "The Howard Era". Book by Keith Windschuttle and Ray Evans, 2009.

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• In our country [US] equality means your liberal and freedom means you're conservative. That tension is there and it can't be handled on its own terms. It can't be handled as you go out of that and go back into natural institutions or natural law or divine revelation. Something outside of the system has to tell you the system has gone wrong.

  Francis George

  Country, Mean, Law

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.

  Erica Jong

  Sex

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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• I've never met anyone who has said, "My goal is to make America mediocre." That's a kind of hard-right conservative fallacy.

  Aaron Sorkin

  America, Goal, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Everyone is a poet at 16, but how many are poets at 50? Generally, people seem to get more conservative as they age, but in my case, I seem to have gotten more radical.

  Fidel Castro

  People, Age, Poet

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning house. But that's probably not going to happen just yet.

  Charles Stross

  Dog, House, Puppets

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2012.

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• On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.

  Edward Norton

  Country, Talking, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a young New Yorker, it was one city. When I was a grown man, it was another city. I worked with many dance organizations and many wonderful people. In the '90s, it became kind of a hard and unwelcoming city in many ways. It became conservative, like the whole country.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Country, New York, Men

  "Mikhail Baryshnikov Shared His Walls". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 10, 2012.

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• At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions of immortality - a product of my very conservative religious upbringing - were still pretty much intact.

  Sam Keen

  Religious, Real, World

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• We are all "conservatives" in some sense, because we want to "conserve" some things while changing others. We are all "liberals" because we all want to be "free" in some respects. We are all "progressives" because we want to progress towards something: the question is, towards what? So instead of asking someone, are you conservative or liberal, right-wing or left-wing, why don't I ask what you want to conserve, and what to change, and why? Then we might finally have an intelligent debate about politics.

  Stratford Caldecott

  Intelligent, Wings, Progress

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• We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.

  Peter Kreeft

  Heart, Mind, Needs

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• Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.

  Winston Churchill

  Heart, Brain, Doe

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• ...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public.

  Clive Ponting

  Opening Up, Benches, Body

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• America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Hero, America, Leader

  Gunnar Myrdal (1995). “Black and African-American Studies: American Dilemma, the Negro Problem and Modern Democracy”, p.7, Transaction Publishers

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• How can you have in our country that is based upon liberality and liberation, be so anti-liberal. That's toxic waste to our consciousness. It's hard to be an American conservative because that's a contradiction in terms. Now if you take away freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of protest, and lock people out based upon their race, their language and their religion, that's conservative and fascist. America is a liberal idea.

  Jesse Jackson

  Country, Race, Ideas

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• You know, these conservative women, somebody really needs to go repossess their ovaries. Really, truly, they have no right to them. They are fabulous, little organs and they have absolutely no right to be estrogen-bearing beings. Okay? Just cut 'em off, let 'em go through the hot flashes, let 'em just sit there and complain about hormone therapy, okay? Just take the ovaries and get it over with. Because they don't deserve to have estrogen. They really don't. It's a privilege.

  Randi Rhodes

  Cutting, Hot Flashes, Ovaries

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• And people in America are very practical people across the political spectrum. Very conservative women want their kids, their daughters taking birth control.

  Howard Dean

  Daughter, Kids, America

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