Conservative Quotes - Page 32

• I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

  Rand Paul

  Running, Thinking, Ifs

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• I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'

  David Mamet

  Talking, Years, Guy

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. June 10, 2011.

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• There are those who believe a liberal or a conservative bias permeates the media. I don't. The operative press bias is one that favors conflict, not ideology, and it is lashed by a market-driven bias to boost ratings or circulation with more wow stories, more sizzle.

  Ken Auletta

  Believe, Media, Stories

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• So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.

  Dick Gregory

  Thug, White, Racism

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• Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Party, Nhs, Clear

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• I think Essex Man will vote for a Conservative Government.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, Thinking, Essex

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• I call the Conservative Party now to a crusade. Not only the Conservative Party. I appeal to all those men and women of goodwill who do not want a Marxist future for themselves or their children or their children's children. This is not just a fight about national solvency. It is a fight about the very foundations of the social order. It is a crusade not merely to put a temporary brake on Socialism, but to stop its onward march once and for all.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Children, Block, Party

  Margaret Thatche's Speech to Conservative Party Conference, www.margaretthatcher.org. October 8, 1976.

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• I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even going to be consistent with the same person. People can hold liberal and conservative dogma points at the same time. They're not living their lives via platforms. They're living their lives. The whole thing is an awfully tired construct.

  Jon Stewart

  Tired, Thinking, Two Sides

  "Jon Stewart on the end of the Bush Administration". Interview with Adam Bulger, artvoice.com. November 12, 2008.

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• I think you are looking at sexuality and not attributes, and I think it's odd because the conservative mantra is a meritocracy. And I think what you're suggesting is the fact that being gay parents makes you not as good as others. And I would suggest that a loving, gay family with a financially secure background beats the hell out of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline any day of the week.

  Jon Stewart

  Gay, Thinking, Parent

  "Mike Huckabee, Part 2". "The Daily Show" official website, December 09, 2008.

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• Reform Jews are the children of Conservative Jews, or as they are sometimes known, Christians with curlier hair.

  Jon Stewart

  Christian, Children, Hair

  "Naked Pictures of Famous People". Book by Jon Stewart, 1998.

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• It is probably well on the conservative side to estimate that during the past ten to fifteen years the camera has destroyed a thousand pairs of eyes, corrupted ten thousand, and seriously deceived a hundred thousand, for every one pair that it has opened, and taught.

  James Agee

  Eye, Past, Years

  Helen Levitt, James Agee (1989). “A way of seeing”

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• If anybody comes up to you and says, My kid is a conservative - why is that? you say, Remember in the 60′s when we told you if you kept using drugs your kids would be mutants?

  Mort Sahl

  Kids, Drug, Would Be

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• A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.

  James Fitzjames Stephen

  Men, Thinking, Progress

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• I was delighted that by campaigning throughout England, Scotland and Wales, addressing in all 39 public meetings, I had contributed to the victory of the Conservative Party at this general election.

  Edward Heath

  Party, Scotland, Victory

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• I would say that, unfortunately, the word liberal has been redefined over the last 30 years as if it is a bad thing. But liberalism is a great American philosophy. Being a liberal is one of the best things you can be. I don't think they get a fair shake at all in the conservative mainstream media. So maybe there's some intimidation there.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Philosophy, Thinking, Media

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• As Margaret Thatcher came up in the world, so the Conservative Party came down.

  Julian Critchley

  Party, World, Conservative Party

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• I myself share with the Conservative Party a profound dislike for such fandangles as proportional representation.

  Hugh Dalton

  Party, Profound, Share

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• On the question of taking credit for what goes right and blame for what goes wrong - having led the Conservative party for four years, I have never heard of this notion before.

  William Hague

  Party, Years, Credit

  "The SAS and the farmers" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. March 7, 2011.

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• Renewable energy fits well into the conservative mindset by allowing competition into the energy markets so that consumers have choice. The system as it is, with big utilities monopolizing the energy playing field or fossil fuel energy being given massive subsidies so that they are on a kind of corporate welfare, is the antithesis of conservative principles.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Choices, Competition, Fuel

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• This is what I say to the most conservative person that's so terrified of gay marriage becoming legal. Just because the state says it's legal, it's not like God's going to let them into Heaven. So you can still sleep sound every night knowing that goal line defense is up at the pearly gates.

  Daniel Tosh

  Sleep, Gay, Night

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• I've got money so I'm a Conservative.

  Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet

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• I was in a real conservative area just outside of Chicago recently. And this guy's like, 'Hey, Arj, you're from San Francisco. Are you in favor of gay marriage?' I was like, 'Well, I'd like to get to know you a little bit better first. I don't know what ever happened to buying a guy a smoothie and seeing what happens. That's how we do it back home.

  Arj Barker

  Real, Home, Gay

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• Conservative concepts believe in little government - take care of yourself, and that makes men who invent things like the constitution! Liberal thought has big government - we'll take care of you - and that creates boys and they create things like Occupy Wall Street! There's a difference between the way men and boys behave.

  Brad Stine

  Wall, Believe, Boys

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• When it comes to my daughter, I'm a conservative. But when it comes to your daughter, I'm a liberal!

  Carlos Mencia

  Daughter, My Daughter, Your Daughter

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• I'm really, really, really, really conservative with money. I got to give myself a lot of excuses to spend money, because I come from nothin'.

  Joell Ortiz

  Giving, Excuse

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