Conservative Quotes - Page 34

• People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.

  Ben Stein

  Grandchildren, People, Want

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• My mother used to say: 'It's not enough to be Hungarian. You still need a little talent, too.' To paraphrase her, its not enough to be conservative, you still need to have the brainpower to be a Supreme Court justice. And, if Harriet Miers is confirmed, she likely won't be in the same league with her colleagues in terms of gray matter.

  Dick Morris

  Mother, Gray Matter, League

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• I come from very conservative parents, and we weren't particularly wealthy, but we were comfortable.

  Richard Armitage

  Parent, Wealthy, Comfortable

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• Love-making is radical, while marriage is conservative.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love Making, Radical

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Putting measures like gay marriage on ballots for elections only hurts the gay rights cause and elects more conservative politicians.

  Roseanne Barr

  Hurt, Gay, Rights

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• Don't ever let anyone tell you that history doesn't repeat. For 70 years, liberals have been spinning the yarn that FDR's New Deal, despite all the evidence that it exacerbated and prolonged the Great Depression, quickened our economic recovery. Indeed, I remember scratching my head when one of my college history professors in the 1970s tried to convince us of that theory and its corollary - an even better howler - that FDR was actually a conservative, because if he hadn't implemented his socialist programs, the republic would have died right there.

  David Limbaugh

  Recovery, College, Convince Us

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• It is unquestionably true that the investment companies have their money more conventionally invested than we do. To many people conventionality is indistinguishable from conservatism. In my view, this represents erroneous thinking. Neither a conventional nor an unconventional approach, per se, is conservative.

  Warren Buffett

  Thinking, Views, People

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• Truly conservative actions arise from intelligent hypotheses, correct facts and sound reasoning.

  Warren Buffett

  Intelligent, Sound, Facts

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• The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.

  Barack Obama

  Pie, Growing, Revolution

  Barack Obama (2007). “The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream”, p.156, Canongate Books

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• Stoners just got a powerful new ally in the fight to legalize marijuana - conservative broadcaster Pat Robertson. He said it's time to 'you know, legalize it, tax it, and keep it away from Mel Gibson.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Powerful, Fighting, Marijuana

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• No American conservative has ever argued that the government should never be involved in peoples' lives. That is anarchy, and we don't argue for that.

  Dennis Prager

  Government, Anarchy, Arguing

  "Dennis Prager: Americanism Is The Best Hope". Interview with Dave Gordon, www.breitbart.com. June 3, 2012.

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• For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Issues, Generations

  "The American Trinity" by Dennis Prager, www.realclearpolitics.com. November 13, 2012.

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• Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics.

  Dennis Prager

  America, People, Projects

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• There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.

  Dennis Prager

  Two, Light, Race

  "Dennis Prager: Americanism Is The Best Hope". Interview with Dave Gordon, www.breitbart.com. June 03, 2012.

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• Conservative Republicans are back. We're in the fight for fiscal discipline and limited government, and we are on the side of the American people.

  Mike Pence

  Fighting, Government, Discipline

  "Pence addresses GOP while world watches Tiger" by Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. February 19, 2010.

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• I am proud to be a conservative ... but I am also proud throughout my life to have attracted the support and the love and affection of people from all over America and all parts of it.

  John McCain

  America, People, Support

  "Bush says Virginia win proves he's 'doing it the right way'" by Mike Ferullo, www.cnn.com. February 29, 2000.

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• I'm a proud Reagan conservative.

  John McCain

  Proud

  John McCain's speech at Town Hall Meeting in Riverside, California, votesmart.org. March 1, 2000.

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• I'm convinced that the most important division in human affairs is probably not the one between left and right, liberal and conservative. It's the one between zealotry and understanding, between absolute conviction and compromise, between preachers and politicians.

  Bill Keller

  Understanding, Important, Division

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• A conservative doesn't want anything to happen for the first time; a liberal feels it should happen, but not now.

  Mort Sahl

  Firsts, Want, Should

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• Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo.

  Robin Williams

  Gun, Volvo, Racks

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• What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because I thought he had a conservative bone in his body somewhere. I supported him in 2004 because I thought him the lesser of two evils. At this point, I wouldn't let the fool park his car in my driveway. Bruce Bartlett was right, every damn word.

  John Derbyshire

  Eight, Years, Two

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• As both a conservative and a Republican, I confess that we deserve to lose this year. We have governed badly and have earned the wrath of voters, who will learn in due course how inadequate the nostrums of liberal Democrats are to the crisis of our times. If I cannot in good faith cast a vote against the Bush years by voting for Obama, I can at least do so by withholding my vote from McCain.

  Rod Dreher

  Years, Wrath, Voting

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• The Bush administration has now provided three case studies in arrogance, isolation and destructiveness: Michael Brown during Hurricane Katrina, Ambassador Jerry Bremer in Baghdad and Secretary Paulson at Treasury. It is a tragic and very expensive legacy. No conservative and no Republican should doubt how much it has hurt our cause and our party.

  Newt Gingrich

  Hurt, Party, Arrogance

  "Dawn of a Newt Age" by David Corn, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• I don't know how you make a record on liberal and conservative these days. We've had a conservative Republican Congress, so to speak, and a conservative president, and we've run up one of the most astounding deficits in the history of our nation.

  Sam Nunn

  Running, President, Records

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• Ann Coulter is, at this point, a known quantity (especially after the raghead remarks last year), and she delivered what they knew she would deliver. Where were the complaints in advance of her appearance? There were none that I am aware of, and this is just damage control. An open letter isn't going to solve the real problem with the conservative movement. And hell, the authors can't even write this letter without sniping at liberal websites. Ann Coulter is not the problem - she is a symptom of the problem.

  John Cole

  Real, Writing, Damage Control

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