Conservative Quotes - Page 28

• Keep your opinions to yourself. I think it's important that I stay neutral on politics and remain hard to understand. I don't want to be pigeonholed as conservative, liberal, independent or anything. I back the man for the things the man believes in, not whether it says "R" or "D" down there beside his name.

  Merle Haggard

  Believe, Independent, Men

  The Billboard Magazine Interview, www.billboard.com. March 26, 2005.

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• Because I'm criticizing liberalism, people automatically call me a conservative. This is madness! The idea that somehow one cannot critique liberalism from the left, from the left wing of liberalism. I mean, how can people be so stupid?

  Camille Paglia

  Stupid, Mean, Wings

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.246, Vintage

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• I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.

  Bud Selig

  Self, Usual, Want

  "Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig says he's reviewing pending Marlins-Blue Jays trade" by the Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. November 15, 2012.

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• I distrust all multiculturalism, liberal or conservative. The Balkans amply demonstrate the perils of Balkanization.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Peril, Balkans, Distrust

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• I took to writing as my medicine to help me stay afloat in acting career journey. I wrote about me breaking hearts, and my heart being broken. I wrote about my views whether they were liberal or conservative. I wrote about everything. I wrote about my life. When I did not have paper coming in as green backs, I'd use random pieces of paper for stories. It was like, I got no money, but I have paper to write. So I wrote.

  Omari Hardwick

  Heart, Writing, Journey

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

  Howard Gordon

  Issues, Social, Feels

  "Interrogating the Creators of 'Homeland'". Interview with Hamed Aleaziz, www.motherjones.com. November 4, 2011.

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• I've got the courage to apply our conservative principles. I can't do it alone. With your help, with God's grace, we can save the idea of America before it's too late.

  Bobby Jindal

  Ideas, America, Grace

  CNBC's "Your Money, Your Vote: The Republican Presidential Debate", www.cnbc.com. October 29, 2015.

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• Conservative values aren't really reflected in the radical values of the NRA. And the other idea was that the NRA is not what you think it is: It's an evolving, ever-changing organization, and it has not always been this radical, right-wing arm of the Republican Party, and that the history of the NRA is in fact really interesting.

  Abigail Disney

  Party, Thinking, Wings

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.

  Tom Tomorrow

  Powerful, Mean, Names

  Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2001.

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• I don't support gay marriage despite being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative.

  Jens Spahn

  Gay, Support, Ties That Bind

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are differences between men and women.

  Kristina Schroder

  Mean, Reality, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I really don't think that Turkey has become more conservative. It just so happens that the conservatives are a lot more visible today than they were previously.

  Egemen Bag?s

  Thinking, Today

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.

  Stelios Haji-Ioannou

  Europe, Roots, America

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they’re very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.

  Rafael Cruz

  Religious, Patriotic, Pro Life

  "Rafael Cruz, Father Of Sen. Ted Cruz, Offers Advice On GOP Latino Outreach". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 8, 2013.

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• I've always been a conservative first.

  Steve Scalise

  Firsts

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• There is no one more vicious on their own than conservative women on conservative women.

  Nicolle Wallace

  Vicious

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• I'll keep reducing my trading size as long as I'm losing My money management techniques are extremely conservative. I never risk anything approaching the total amount of money in my account, let alone my total funds.

  Randy McKay

  Long, Risk, Size

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• One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Children, Believe, Thinking

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• I have always had extraordinarily good relations with very conservative colleagues. And that's not because I agree with any of them or fudge on my positions, but people feel I listen to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best of people. And that, I think, is an attitude that is maybe rare in politics.

  Barack Obama

  Attitude, Thinking, People

  Source: www.politico.com

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• When the film and music industries declined in the wake of increasingly conservative Muslim laws and social customs in Pakistan, many of these musicians found themselves out of work. They were brought together at Sachal Studios by Izzat Majeed, who built the studio in order to preserve these musical traditions.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Order, Law, Musical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Stones, Towns, Something New

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• By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves - will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence.

  Eric Alterman

  Powerful, Military, America

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• The question of whether we were misled into the war in Iraq isn't a liberal or conservative or Republican or Democratic question, it's an American one. Protecting the democracy that we ask our sons and daughters to die for is our responsibility and our trust. Demanding accountability from our leaders is our job as citizens. It's the American way. So may the truth win out.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Daughter, Jobs, War

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• Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.

  Gordon Brown

  Years, Two, Worst

  House of Commons debate, www.publications.parliament.uk. December 6, 2006.

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• Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.

  Ronald Reagan

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