Conservative Quotes - Page 40

• I know some African-Americans, they happen to be conservative, they're successful. They, of course, have raised their kids, and kids can't escape in school the history of slavery and all of the horrible things that happened in the past. But they weren't raised that way, and they are not raising their kids to be imprisoned by that. They're raising them to be the best they can be today, to take advantage of the opportunity that exists today.

  Rush Limbaugh

  School, Kids, Successful

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• One of the sad things about this political season is that it allows [requires] us to get behind our big "Liberal" or "Conservative" banner and forget, for a time, that the big problems in our country have been around a long time and have been batted back and forth, caused and exacerbated, by both sides, and are more spiritual or ethical than [merely] political.

  George Saunders

  Spiritual, Country, Long

  "George Saunders on Trump, Mystery, and Why He Rejects Social Media". Interview with Catherine Woodiwiss, sojo.net. August 30, 2016.

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• You have a country that is 20 percent liberal, 40 percent conservative. You have a country where maybe 22 percent have faith in government. If you're a liberal, it's just going to be tough. And you should just expect that. And it's tough for people on the right, too, because they don't get what they want either if you're, say, a libertarian. So, you have got the country sort of against you. And, nevertheless, you have a president.

  David Brooks

  Country, Government, People

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• A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.

  Thomas Friedman

  Party, Sacred, Generations

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• Whether the flavour of economic advice you like is conservative or liberal, you will find that flavour available from some 'reputable' economist, since there is no single standard to which all 'reputable' economists must repair.

  Barbara Bergmann

  Advice, Economic, Flavour

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• I'm too fiscally conservative for the Democrats and too socially liberal for the Republicans, like 75% of the American people.

  Angus King

  People, Republican, Democrat

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• Actually, I think what is being shown as beauty in fashion magazines right now has become particularly ugly. This kind of straight, blonde very conservative.

  Nan Goldin

  Fashion, Thinking, Blonde

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• Some people have become [in U.S] a lot more conservative but I can't really speak about that because I wasn't there. I feel compassion for their pain but it distresses me to see them all become more patriotic.

  Nan Goldin

  Pain, Patriotic, Compassion

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• Pennsylvania might be a parochial state, but it's not a homogeneous state. So, even among just Republican voters, to be able to pull that off, when you have very moderate voters on one side of the state and more conservative in the middle, shows that Donald Trump has very, very broad support.

  John Brabender

  Support, Pennsylvania, Might

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In a state like Pennsylvania, the paradox is, to win, you have to get the conservative Democrats in the west, but you still have to do well with the collar-county moderates in the east. [Mitt] Romney did fine with the moderates, but not the conservative Democrats. Trump is doing well with the conservative Democrats. Now Trump has to seal the deal with the moderates in the east.

  John Brabender

  Winning, Pennsylvania, East

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Donald Trump actually is a pretty big-government conservative. He doesn't see eye-to-eye with them [the Kochs] on trade.

  Jane Mayer

  Eye, Government, Bigs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm not a conservative or a free market advocate or a Republican because, you know, I want people to like me.

  Daniel Garza

  People, Want, Republican

  "Libre Initiative Spreads Free Market Ideology To Latino Voters". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 13, 2016.

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• I'm a very conservative personal politically.

  Bill Bright

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I've been working since I was 14, and my father, being very conservative, has always been strict about my having a savings account.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Father, Saving, Strict

  "New Again: Michelle Pfeiffer". Interview With Colleen Kelsey, Peter Stone, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2012.

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• Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Boys, Alive, Littles

  "Ruth Bader Ginsburg on becoming ‘Notorious’". "PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. October 10, 2016.

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• How long do we have to deal with conservative failure? How long? Thirty years is not enough? So I would say enough with that, and I would say check out the Center for American Progress, and the writings by Patrick Garofalo, economic guru. That's what I would say.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Writing, Years, Long

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• As champions of green jobs, we're asking questions that progressives should like, like "How are we going to avoid baking the planet," and "How are we going to create jobs for ordinary Americans?" Meanwhile, we're offering solutions that conservative should like. I'm not calling for more welfare; I'm calling for more work.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Asking Questions, Offering

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Captain Fantastic touches on that [division]. You meet this family that lives off the grid in the woods and you go, "Oh, it's some kind of liberal utopian fantasy. The enemy is gonna be all these conservative types that they'll probably run into, and that's going to be the story."

  Viggo Mortensen

  Running, Enemy, Woods

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I grew up in a very small town in Scotland, a little place called Crieff which is beautiful and it's at the foothills to the highlands. It's a very beautiful part of the world. It's a small, I suppose quite conservative place.

  Ewan McGregor

  Beautiful, Scotland, World

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I think there's no question that everything possible is being done to stop Donald Trump and you're seeing a case study in how hard it is to be outsider and the double standard of the national media, particularly if you're a conservative outsider.

  Newt Gingrich

  Thinking, Media, Done

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The Republican Party cannot win the White House anymore with just conservative and Republican votes.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Winning, White

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Ethical systems are fundamentally conservative and primarily directed towards regulating interactions within communities.

  Dale Jamieson

  Community, Ethical, Interaction

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Movement, Republican

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days, I had a conservative right-wing way of thinking. At university, I met the other young people with whom I made this party, Jobbik. These friends grew to include more people, and as more people with these extreme-right views joined us, Jobbik became more and more extreme right. I was young, in my 20s, and we could continuously identify with these ideas.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Party, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.salon.com

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• What's most remarkable about the conservative activists who promote a small, hysterical group of conspiracy theorists claiming a Muslim theocracy is the greatest threat facing America today is that they are also promoters of the mythology that America was founded and should be governed as a Christian nation - or, when they're feeling magnanimously ecumenical, a "Judeo-Christian" nation.

  Sarah Posner

  Christian, America, Feelings

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