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In fact I have a full page warning, right in the front of the book, that no one under the age of eighteen should read this book and no one should even turn the pages if they are sexually conservative or erotically deprived.
Burt Ward
Age Conservative Fact Right
I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that’s what the Tea Party was all about. It’s getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it’s also effective and efficient. I think that that’s what we’ll be able to do.
Allen West
Conservative Government Party Principles Tea
You know, I’m a Republican, I’m a Conservative, I voted for George Bush.
Tom Tancredo
Conservative Republican
We’ve not had one Republican president in 34 years balance the budget. You can’t trust right-wing Republicans with your money. You ought to hire somebody who has balanced a budget. I’m much more conservative with money than George Bush is.
Howard Dean
Balance Conservative Money President Republican Republicans Right Trust Years
One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative – and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.
Jeffrey Bernard
Conservative Word
Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein
Conservative Desire Liberal People Race Want
White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I’m gonna wave my freak flag high.
Jimi Hendrix
Conservative Will
The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.
Christine O'Donnell
Conservative Years
I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I’m chilling with myself, people always come ask me, ‘What’s wrong with you? What are you wondering about?’
Wayne Wonder
Conservative People Wrong
There’s nothing wrong with being a Conservative and coming up with a Conservative believe in foreign policy where we have a strong national defense and we don’t go to war so carelessly.
Ron Paul
Being Conservative Defense Foreign policy Nothing Policy War Wrong
A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.
Tom Wolfe
Conservative Liberal
I do not know which makes a man more conservative – to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
John Maynard Keynes
Conservative Man Nothing Past Present
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that “ancient institution” the old one.
Douglas Jerrold
Conservative Man Moon Old Respect Will
We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
Kate Clinton
Conservative Gay People Republican
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
John Major
Conservative Politics Regret Voice
The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.
Mike Pence
Conservative Government Today
I have long felt that it is readers and viewers of conservative media who could benefit from a more balanced discussion of what is at stake in our policy and the actions of our government.
Joe Wilson
Actions Conservative Government Media Policy
I am getting frustrated by the fact that we have been out of office for eight years. I desperately want to lead the Conservative Party to make quicker progress back into power.
Kenneth Clarke
Conservative Fact Office Party Power Progress Want Years
All great peoples are conservative.
Thomas Carlyle
Conservative
I’m a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.
Shannen Doherty
Conservative Thought
As a fiscal conservative, I think that our government should pay for itself.
Daniel Keys Moran
Conservative Government
I believe people who are looking for a fresh idea and spirit have received Danielson. The conservative Christian press have been quite mean to us, but the mainstream “secular” press has been very, very nice.
Daniel Smith
Christian Conservative Idea People Press Spirit
I love this country very much, and I’m proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
Ed Harris
Conservative Country Extreme Love People Right
I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.
James Denton
Conservative Pretty
What we try to say is that it doesn’t matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.
Martin Sheen
Conservative Culture Republican Responsibility
As a fiscal conservative, I believe one of the most important roles the federal government can play in assuring that our economy remains strong is to keep our fiscal house in order.
Allen Boyd
Conservative Economy Government Order Play
There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.
Barack Obama
America Conservative Liberal states United
We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can’t break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.
Peter MacKay
Alliance Conservative Country Liberals Stress Support
It’s my view that any conservative who loves his country has to be extremely concerned.
Vincent Bugliosi
Conservative Country
You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.
Henry Cabot Lodge
American Conservative Life May Will
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Change Conservative Culture Liberal Politics Society Success Truth
I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.
James Ellroy
Authority Conservative Temperament Truth
We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won’t back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That’s what we need for our nominee, whether it is me or whether it is someone else.
Michele Bachmann
Conservative Fight Values Will
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
A. E. Housman
Conservative Criticism Man
I don’t think very many people would accuse Paula Zahn of being a conservative.
Brit Hume
Being Conservative People
So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.
Kenneth Baker
Conservative February Leader Party Running
I’m a compassionate conservative.
John Engler
Conservative
Conservative’s the last thing I am.
Ewan McGregor
Conservative
The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it.
Ariel Durant
Change Conservative Radical
The next four years, there won’t be a week that goes by without a discussion of climate change. It’s a naturally Conservative issue.
Tim Yeo
Change Climate Climate change Conservative Years
I think it’s very clear that the American people are frustrated with this move toward socialism. And so whether you’re back or white, if you believe that the conservative construct is in the best interest of our future, than you too would be voting with Republicans, and if you had the opportunity to run you’d join us as well.
Tim Scott
American Conservative Future Interest Opportunity People Republicans Socialism Voting
It’s an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
Yahoo Serious
Conservative Infinite Options Universe
But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.
Jeff Miller
American Being Commitment Compromise Conservative Gain Ideals Time Vote
I’m not a professional politician. I’m a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.
Herman Cain
Balance Common sense Conservative Senators
I’m from the South. I’m a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I’m a Republican.
Shannen Doherty
Conservative Republican
When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
Henry Ward Beecher
Conservative Men Nation
No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
Gloria Steinem
Conservative Home Labor Liberal Man Office Play Radical Women Work
Because liberalism typically doesn’t sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.
Rich Lowry
American Conservative Liberal Liberalism Politics
The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They’re about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.
Al Franken
Conservative Liberal Media Money
What is not conservative about saying, ‘Don’t go to war unless we go to war properly with a full declaration of war and no other way?’
Ron Paul
Conservative Saying War
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