Conservative Quotes - Page 31

• I want to make the United States great again. This country is a hell-hole. We are going down fast and I'm a conservative but I have a big heart. I will take care of people, but a lot of people want me to run, and we'll see what happens.

  Donald Trump

  Running, Country, Heart

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this.

  Kelly Clarkson

  People, Depth, Problem

  "Kelly Clarkson Reveals the Emotional Stories Behind Piece by Piece, Plus Her Big Plans for Beyonce and Taylor Swift Covers". Glamour Interview, March 10, 2015.

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• I grew up in an Orthodox family, as I grew older, I became Conservative and that's how it ended up. But I've developed that Jewish feel to my act from my surroundings and my family.

  Don Rickles

  My Family, Grew Up, Surroundings

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• I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always take realities of today, lessons from the distant and recent past into consideration.

  Vladimir Putin

  Past, Reality, Perspective

  Source: www.profitmagazin.com

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• Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what the relationship terms are going to be. And that's why the terms of marriage change with every century and decade. We're shaping it from the inside. Marriage endures because it evolves. Obviously it does. None of us would accept marriage on its 13th century terms, not even the most conservative people...

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Long, People, Doe

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. January, 2010.

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• Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.

  Philip Pullman

  Dark, Thinking, Long

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• I'm a small government conservative.

  Tucker Carlson

  Government, Small Government

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

  Mario Bunge

  Jobs, Philosopher, Contemporary

  Source: deutsche-denker.de

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• There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Rights, Government, Iran

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I used to play a narcissistic-conservative pundit. Now, I'm just a narcissist.

  Stephen Colbert

  Play, Narcissistic, Used

  "Stephen Colbert Brings Showmanship — And Harmony — To His 'Late Show' Debut". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 9, 2015.

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• I'm not a conservative or a republican but I know that there's conservative republicans who I probably vigorously disagree with but I also am smart enough, or something enough, to understand that they really think that they're right, and they're looking at me like I'm crazy.

  Henry Rollins

  Crazy, Smart, Thinking

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• We are aching to come together and I think it has little to do with liberal or conservative discourse. I think it has to do with increasing disconnection with what is real and soul-serving.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Real, Thinking, Soul

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My parents are really conservative. My dad is Muslim, and my mom is the most conservative woman you've ever met. They're very aristocratic in the most quaint suburban way.

  SZA

  Mom, Dad, Parent

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well, I don't know whether it caused anguish in China, but it was not a wise way to proceed. But one has to remember that it was the first experience. And in a Republican administration, there is a conservative wing that looks at China as the last embodiment of communism, which therefore tends towards a more bellicose rhetoric anyway than I would. It's not the dominant element, but every once in a while they get a crack at public statement.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Wise, Wings, Cracks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The difference between Libertarian and Conservative is that Conservatives understand this, and know that unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat sold in market places, and slavery. Alas, many Conservatives think that everything has to be regulated and controlled.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Thinking, Differences, Political

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• I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor; so's George Bush. . . . But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help? And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.

  Barbara Bush

  Mean, Rights, People

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• The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.

  Mark Levin

  Men, Rights, Dignity

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

  William Bennett

  Needs, May, Too Much

  "The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories". Book by William Bennett, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1993.

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• I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

  Michael Howard

  Party, Conservative Party

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• It is unfortunate that some in our party have lost sight of the importance of conservation and environmental protection for keeping America strong, healthy, prosperous, and secure. It's time for all of our Republican leaders to recognize that conservation is conservative.

  David Jenkins

  Strong, Party, Sight

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• In our country [US] equality means your liberal and freedom means you're conservative. That tension is there and it can't be handled on its own terms. It can't be handled as you go out of that and go back into natural institutions or natural law or divine revelation. Something outside of the system has to tell you the system has gone wrong.

  Francis George

  Country, Mean, Law

  Source: www.realclearreligion.org

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• I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.

  Erica Jong

  Sex

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

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• What I'm hoping for is something that goes much, much further than the conservative enablers of dog-eat-dog capitalism putting on a puppet show of cleaning house. But that's probably not going to happen just yet.

  Charles Stross

  Dog, House, Puppets

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 2, 2012.

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• On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.

  Edward Norton

  Country, Talking, White

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At thirty I lived in a world where death wasn't immediately real; it was always something "out there." My deeply held illusions of immortality - a product of my very conservative religious upbringing - were still pretty much intact.

  Sam Keen

  Religious, Real, World

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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