Conservative Quotes - Page 36

• I was raised a nice Jewish boy in a Conservative household. Went to Camp Ramah. It's funny actually. I think I enacted my queerness there unconsciously. I was kind of one of the weirdos. I was on staff and definitely interested in alternatives to what that social structure was supposed to be.

  Jay Michaelson

  Nice, Boys, Thinking

  "Interview: Jay Michaelson, Author Of God Vs. Gay? The Religious Case For Equality". BYT interview, brightestyoungthings.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Marco [Rubio] has more of an allegiance to Chuck Schumer and to the liberals than he does to conservative policy.

  Ted Cruz

  Doe, Allegiance, Chuck

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• It is not like the white Republican, the conservative, who clears it up for you and says, "I don't like you", to your face and then you know immediately he is an antagonist. Racism operates in a lot of ways, and so I live it every day.

  Bocafloja

  White, Racism, Way

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• Most human beings who are accustomed to attempting to see the world from various points of view tend to be more liberal than conservative.

  Sydney Pollack

  Views, World, Attempting

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• There was a conservative consensus for an amendment I put forward called Trust, But Verify that would have strengthened border security on both refugees, students and those coming here. And Marco sided and I guess was more sympathetic to Chuck Schumer and to the president than he was to conservative principles.

  Rand Paul

  President, Principles, Borders

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• To me, there is no greater threat than our debt. I'm the only fiscal conservative on the stage because I'm willing to hold the line on all spending.

  Rand Paul

  Debt, Lines, Stage

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

  Randall Robinson

  Religious, Management, Approach

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

  Immortal Technique

  People, Viewpoints, World

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• I thought the whole idea of being a conservative was to keep the government from messing around in people's lives. And yet they say the government should be getting into people's families. That's messing pretty heavily where I come from.

  Edward Zigler

  Government, Ideas, People

  "Edward Zigler". The Progressive Magazine, Interview, www.thefreelibrary.com. June 1, 2002.

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• My conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?

  Gene Robinson

  Brother, Views, Tasks

  "Face to faith" by Gene Robinson, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2008.

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

  Warren Buffett

  Intelligent, Sound, Facts

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

  Robin Williams

  Gun, Volvo, Racks

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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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