Conservative Quotes - Page 34

• If a woman or a gay person has a right, by conservative logic, then the right is not actually a right but instead an assault on rights. Women and gays: So evil that we can turn actual rights into assaults on freedom just by having them.

  Amanda Marcotte

  Gay, Rights, Evil

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• If you are a conservative you can never get anything wrong. I was very proud of the fact that I didn't get anything wrong that I said during the course of the debates.

  Michele Bachmann

  Proud, Facts, Debate

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• Being conservative has never been regarded as old-fashioned. But if you fight for a sensible step in the right direction which others has deserted you will be branded "reactionary".

  Poul Henningsen

  Fighting, Steps, Old Fashioned

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• I am a Libertarian. I want to be known as a Libertarian and a Constitutionalist in the tradition of the early James Madison - father of the Constitution. Labels change and perhaps in the old tradition I would be considered one of the original Whigs. The new title I would wear today is that of Conservative, though in its original connotation the term Liberal fits me better than the original meaning of the word Conservative.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Father, Titles, Would Be

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• Because Fox News is allegedly biased in favor of conservatives, critics whine like children whose lunch money got snatched. Conservatives have been pummeled for decades. Now that Fox News and conservative talk radio give people alternatives, critics squeal as if being sodomized.

  Larry Elder

  Children, Lunch, People

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• Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.

  David Limbaugh

  Past, Self, Objectivity

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• The New York Times is most definitely a left-wing concern that is openly contemptuous of the conservative, traditional point of view. That is the primary reason the paper may soon dissolve.

  Bill O'Reilly

  New York, Views, Wings

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• The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

  Mark Steyn

  Principles, Rewards, Behavior

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• All conservatives are bilingual we have to be. We speak both liberal and conservative. But liberals are monolingual - they don't have to be anything else. They speak liberal, and are completely ignorant of the conservative tongue.

  John Podhoretz

  Ignorant, Tongue, Speak

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• Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.

  Ari Marcopoulos

  Country, People, Might

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.

  Zainab Salbi

  Religious, Impact, Law

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The judgment of God against this nation will not be turned by a more conservative President, but by the repentance of its people.

  Paul Washer

  People, President, Judgment

  Twitter post from Nov 07, 2012

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• Having daughters tends to help a guy get in touch with his inner social conservative.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Daughter, Guy, Helping

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• The only place where we're not segregated in mass is in sports. You go to a football stadium or a basketball arena, and all of America is there: the wealthy, the poor, the black, white, Latino, conservative, liberal, and we all talk about sports.

  Jason Whitlock

  Basketball, Sports, Football

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• Both the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.

  Bill Bonner

  Agreement, People, Want

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• Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.

  Rick Perlstein

  Running, Military, Communication

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• I've always believed that conservatism is the politics of reality, and that reality ultimately asserts itself in a reasonably free society, in behalf of the conservative position.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Reality, Behalf, Always Believe

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• I think our party and particularly our movement, the conservative movement, does have more of a problem with con men and charlatans than the Democratic Party. I mean, the incentives seem to be set up to allow people - as long as you have a band of a few million fanatical followers, you can make money. The Democrats have managed to figure out how not to do that.

  Ann Coulter

  Party, Mean, Men

  "Ann Coulter: GOP has a ‘problem with charlatans’ like Sarah Palin". www.rawstory.com. March 14, 2012.

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• The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.

  Terence McKenna

  Dmt, Perspective, Soul

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• I think opera music is very conservative, and Rock and Roll music is conservative as well, and that's why I'm trying to make a bridge between these two elements.

  Klaus Nomi

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

  William Hague

  Government, Next, Responsible

  "Hague's 'foreign land' speech". Speech at the Spring forum in Harrogate, www.theguardian.com. March 4, 2001.

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• The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to be called neoconservatism. Many ... , myself included, disliked the term because we did not think we were conservative, neo or paleo. (I voted for John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey and worked in the latter's presidential campaign.) It would have been better if we had been called policy skeptics; that is, people who thought it was hard, though not impossible, to make useful and important changes in public policy.

  James Q. Wilson

  Thinking, Views, People

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• CNN recently ran a sort of roundup article on why some conservatives say that Trump talk is fascist. The roundup included this tweet from Iowa Republican radio host, very influential guy in Iowa Republican caucuses, Steve Deace. Quote, "If [Barack] Obama proposed the same religion registry as Trump, every conservative in the country would call it what it is - creeping fascism."

  Rachel Maddow

  Country, Iowa, Cnn

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• Fascism allegation [to Donald Trump] is not coming from the left. This is coming from the right. It`s coming from inside the Republican Party and from within mainstream conservative thought.

  Rachel Maddow

  Party, Republican, Mainstream

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• The idea of the Overton Window of using people on the political fringe to change the terms of acceptable debate, that`s an idea that`s been hugely influential in conservative politics since Joseph P. Overton thought it up, making radical ideas seem acceptable by advocating for the unthinkable.

  Rachel Maddow

  Using People, Ideas, Political

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