Quotes about Conservatives

We Conservatives hate unemployment. Votes: 4

Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration. Votes: 4

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. Votes: 4

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. Votes: 4

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. Votes: 4

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. Votes: 4

Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education. Votes: 4

Conservatives, come out of the closet Votes: 3

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground. Votes: 3

Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals. Votes: 3

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work. Votes: 3

For Conservatives, seeing is believing. For liberals, believing is seeing. Votes: 3

Conservatives claim [Hillary] Clinton campaign involved in satanic 'spirit cooking'. Votes: 3

The problem with Republicans and Conservatives is we attack each other. Votes: 3

The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter. Votes: 3

Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform. Votes: 3

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome. Votes: 3

Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do. Votes: 3

I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neo­-Conservatives. Votes: 3

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century. Votes: 3

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost. Votes: 3

Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers. Votes: 3

Conservatives are much more comfortable supporting the leader who's in power than liberals. Votes: 3

Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity. Votes: 3

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. Votes: 3

Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers. Votes: 3

People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats. Votes: 3

Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor. Votes: 3

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now. Votes: 3

British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so. Votes: 3

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century. Votes: 3

Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square. Votes: 3

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty. Votes: 3

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Votes: 3

Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people. Votes: 3

Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research. Votes: 3

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. Votes: 3

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. Votes: 3

Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it. Votes: 3

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. Votes: 3

I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment. Votes: 3

Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans, Votes: 3

Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth. Votes: 3

The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others. Votes: 3

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world. Votes: 3

Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans. Votes: 3

Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead. Votes: 3

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. Votes: 3

Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade. Votes: 3

Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills. Votes: 3

As Conservatives, We Don't Care About The Color of Your Skin, We Care About The Color of Our Flag Votes: 3

Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion. Votes: 3

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives. Votes: 3

When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird! Votes: 3

Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't Votes: 3

The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps. Votes: 3

Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents. Votes: 3

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it. Votes: 3

Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor. Votes: 3

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights. Votes: 3

The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight. Votes: 3

In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table. Votes: 3

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good. Votes: 3

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook. Votes: 3

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out. Votes: 3

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. Votes: 3

Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary. Votes: 3

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power. Votes: 3

Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult. Votes: 3

Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite. Votes: 3

Conservatives try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior. Votes: 3

Conservatives tend to believe there is a close and necessary connection between prosperity and freedom - that economic freedom is an essential part of human freedom. Votes: 3

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television. Votes: 3

Conservatives should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life. Votes: 3

Conservatives say a lot about wanting the government stay out of our lives and businesses. We need to make sure the government stays out of our uteruses. Votes: 3

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the new people whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to Votes: 3

Conservatives frequently complain of being frozen out of the culture industry, though, like all industries, the culture industry will produce or sell anything it expects to profit from. Votes: 3

You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals. Votes: 3

Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection. Votes: 3

Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save. Votes: 3

Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals. Votes: 3

Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person. Votes: 3

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form. Votes: 3

Conservatives are, I think, correct to highlight family stability as a fundamental issue that goes to the welfare of children as much as food stamps or anything else. Votes: 3

Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person. Votes: 3

Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it. Votes: 3

At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair. Votes: 3

For the second time in history the Conservatives will have a female prime minster, proving that we are not just the greatest but the most progressive party in Britain. Votes: 3

Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out. Votes: 3

Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity." Votes: 3

There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives. Votes: 3

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views. Votes: 3

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much. Votes: 3

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. Votes: 3

Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family. Votes: 3

Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope that more of us will open our hearts to animals. Votes: 3

Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid. Votes: 3

And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it's bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada. Votes: 3

While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that. Votes: 3

Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they are inherently accepting of those who downplay such problems. Votes: 3

Conservatives insist that government should be " run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does not market goods and services for the purpose of capital accumulation. Votes: 3

Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's politics of personal destruction when it came to smearing elected officials. 'Fair game,' they said, even when crass and crude. That's just the way it is. Votes: 3

On the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government: I think it should be made clear that the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, they have not got into bed together; they are merely sharing a room. Votes: 3

Conservatives have a deeper intellect and tend to have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science, and economics. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to flock to occupations of the heart. Votes: 3

We in the Labour party owe it to the people we represent to make sure that we offer a choice at the next election between our Labour values and those of the Conservatives. Votes: 3

Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them. Votes: 3

[Being a] conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian. Votes: 3

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. Votes: 3

Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are three times as likely to live in poverty as kids in two-parent homes. Votes: 3

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it. Votes: 3

Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money. Votes: 3

I read quite a few complaints last night about Lester Holt's choice of debate topics. Liberals wanted to know why climate change didn't come up. Conservatives thought there should have been a question about abortion. Votes: 3

Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. Votes: 3

Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like. Votes: 3

Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of. Votes: 3

Conservatives are driven and inspired by principles, not personalities. We therefore seek consistency with our elected officials. To the extent that they are not consistent, anger is the inevitable result, so yes, many will be angry. Votes: 3

I think the most basic difference between Liberalism and Conservatism today, at its core, is that Conservatives just seem to want a better world for themselves - while Liberals just seem to want a better world. Votes: 3

What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice. Votes: 3

The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives. Votes: 3

Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it. Votes: 3

Conservatives cannot govern well for the same reason that vegetarians cannot prepare a world-class boeuf bourguignon: If you believe that what you are called upon to do is wrong, you are not likely to do it very well. Votes: 3

Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further. Votes: 3

I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it. Votes: 3

It seems to me that the Conservatives neither recognise the scale of the living standards crisis facing British families nor offer credible answers as to how the British economy or British society can be better in the future. Votes: 3

Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries. Votes: 3

Conservatives are people who look at a tree and feel instinctively that it is more beautiful than anything they can name. But when it comes to defending that tree against a highway, they will go for the highway. Votes: 3

Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is. Votes: 3

Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy, feeding you, tucking you in, and wiping your nose. Libertarians want to treat you as an adult. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor? Votes: 3

Conservatives want smaller government. They want to focus on market-based solutions wherever one can. They want to have as little regulation as possible. But in general, they recognize that government must play an important role for a society to operate. Votes: 3

When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier. Votes: 3

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity. Votes: 3

...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest. Votes: 3

If there is a class war-and there is-it is important that it should be handled with subtlety and skill. ... it is not freedom that Conservatives want; what they want is the sort of freedom that will maintain existing inequalities or restore lost ones. Votes: 3

Conservatives believe in the ties that bind us. Society is stronger when we make vows to each other and we support each other. I don't support gay marriage in spite of being a conservative. I support gay marriage because I am a conservative. Votes: 3

The Liberal Democrat Party and the Conservative Party come at things very differently when it comes to Europe. When it comes to political reform, we have a much greater tradition in the Liberal Democrats of social justice and fairness than the Conservatives do. Votes: 3

I see some parallels between then [Lincoln's era] and now. Certainly the division of ideologies between two parties, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party. In 1865, the Democrats were the Conservatives and the Republicans were the progressives, and today it's just the opposite. Votes: 3

‎"I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution. Votes: 3

Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He's not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated - and by liberals as well as conservatives. Votes: 3

The Conservatives are a confusing lot. They first denied climate change was a serious issue and then suggested strengthening the nuclear industry as a solution to it. They oppose the European Union, but support joining North American Free Trade Agreement, despite its obvious failure. Votes: 3

We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives. Votes: 3

Conservatives are better talking about opportunity and growth in the abstract, while liberals talk more about poor people. We [americans] need a good, optimistic, conservative opportunity ideology that is totally geared toward lifting up the poor. That's what I most want to see in candidates. Votes: 3

Conservatives are tougher. They fight harder, they fight for their own, and they're willing to win for themselves and they're willing to impose pain on the opposition. Liberals are much less willing to do that. They're much more - they would much rather give to everybody. Votes: 3

Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear. Votes: 3

The Middle East is now filled with death and destruction and that was the aim of Neo-Conservatives who planned this destruction of seven Muslim nations in five years and they are on schedule and the final nation in their sights to destroy is the Islamic Republic of Iran. Votes: 3

Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock. Votes: 3

Radical conservatives want to police bedrooms. Votes: 2

Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives. Votes: 2

Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives. Votes: 2

Progressives, in a way, are the new conservatives. We want to conserve what we fought to build. Votes: 2

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. Votes: 2

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring. Votes: 2

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal. Votes: 2

It's not that conservatives don't care. We do. We just have different answers than liberals do. It's a difference of the mind, not of the heart. Votes: 2

This is what the election of 2010 was about. We didn't send conservatives to Washington to flirt with Democrat proposals for higher taxes and more debt. We sent leaders to stop them. Votes: 2

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. Votes: 2

I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware. Votes: 2

In a hundred years, Christianity will have mutated into something utterly unpredictable which, nevertheless, we'd recognize immediately. And same-sex marriage will be one of the fine old God-given traditions that conservatives leap to defend. Votes: 2

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome. Votes: 2

A disturbing prospect looms before us as Americans consider the possibility of a second term for President Barack Obama. Millions of conservatives who revere the Constitution, with its guarantees of freedom and limited government, have watched with alarm as the campaign season has unfolded. Votes: 2

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause. Votes: 2

Conservatism is, among many other things, a culture. The most important glue binding it together is a shared sense of cultural grievance - the conviction, uniting conservatives high and low, theocratic and plutocratic, neocon and paleocon, that someone, somewhere is looking down their noses at them with a condescending sneer. Votes: 2

It really is a fact that liberals are much higher than conservatives on a major personality trait called 'openness to experience.' People who are high on openness to experience just crave novelty, variety, diversity, new ideas, travel. People low on it like things that are familiar, that are safe and dependable. Votes: 2

There is a reason why conservatives talk about 'government' and not 'self-government,' because to refer to the latter is to concede that 'the government' is really the most basic product of our political commonwealth, that it is what we produce among ourselves so as to order the production of everything else that we do together. Votes: 2

I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don't like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I've been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I'll hold his feet to the fire just as much. Votes: 2

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. Votes: 0

Liberals exploit weakness; conservatives offer strength. Votes: 0

Social conservatives say who drives the bus. Votes: 0

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives. Votes: 0

Libertarians are conservatives who still get high. Votes: 0

I hate conservatives, but I really ... hate liberals. Votes: 0

Self-professed conservatives comprise about 40% to 45% of the electorate. Votes: 0

We conservatives fight evil; the Left fights carbon emissions Votes: 0

Of course, conservatives always claim to be against judicial activism. Votes: 0

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action. Votes: 0

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives. Votes: 0

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. Votes: 0

The religious opponents of Christian conservatives are presented as moderates. Votes: 0

Most conservatives are conservatives because they think they are morally correct. Votes: 0

The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body. Votes: 0

Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do. Votes: 0

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system. Votes: 0

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives. Votes: 0

The conservatives nearly always tolerate the demagogue while he is destroying liberals. Votes: 0

This is my question for conservatives: don't you want to live, too? Votes: 0

Some people call themselves fiscal conservatives; my wife says I'm just cheap. Votes: 0

I'm willing to zap conservatives when they do things that are not libertarian. Votes: 0

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up. Votes: 0

You can't get more racist than hating black conservatives just because they're black. Votes: 0

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives. Votes: 0

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives. Votes: 0

Progressives always like clean energy ideas. But conservatives should like this agenda, too. Votes: 0

I'm an eccentric, silly, observational guy, but I'm not gonna frighten off social conservatives. Votes: 0

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians. Votes: 0

Primary responsibility for Brexit lies with British conservatives, who took an entire continent hostage. Votes: 0

Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government. Votes: 0

The establishment isn't new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives, isn't anything new. Votes: 0

Latinos are just like everybody else. There are conservatives. There are moderates. There are liberals. Votes: 0

The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions. Votes: 0

I think there are probably more closet conservatives in Hollywood than there are closet homosexuals. Votes: 0

The establishment isn't new. The establishment not wanting outsiders, not wanting conservatives, isn't anything new. Votes: 0

So many people, including stark conservatives, have family members and close friends who are gay. Votes: 0

The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal. Votes: 0

This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives. Votes: 0

What I mean is that conservatives are in a constant state of hair-on-fire, yelling anger, Votes: 0

To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality. Votes: 0

Most Americans will let liberals and conservatives play their games because most Americans don't pay attention. Votes: 0

The conservative candidate who ignores moderates is as misguided as the moderate candidate who ignores conservatives. Votes: 0

Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives. Votes: 0

If we do with Latinos what we did with African-Americans, Republicans and conservatives will be doomed. Votes: 0

It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again. Votes: 0

It's highly ironic that it was the conservatives on the court who overturned so many statutes. Votes: 0

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. Votes: 0

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America? Votes: 0

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness. Votes: 0

For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past. Votes: 0

Obviously, there are conservatives who are in the mainstream and conservatives who would take people's rights away. Votes: 0

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness. Votes: 0

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong. Votes: 0

Christian conservatives care about their families eating. They're concerned about energy independence. They're concerned about functional government. Votes: 0

We need conservatives that can accept gays, and then we need hippies that can shave and bathe. Votes: 0

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong. Votes: 0

Most conservatives also believe in the death penalty, but not abortion, which proves they like to procrastinate. Votes: 0

I would urge my fellow conservatives to avoid the temptation to crow about it or take credit. Votes: 0

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives. Votes: 0

Sometimes I feel like the most liberal person among conservatives, and sometimes like the most conservative among liberals. Votes: 0

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census. Votes: 0

Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family. Votes: 0

Its often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census. Votes: 0

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner. Votes: 0

I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment. Votes: 0

Oh absolutely. Look they hate all conservatives but they have a special kind of loathing for women conservatives. Votes: 0

I think, any politician, you have to hold them to their word. And conservatives run on fiscal conservatism. . Votes: 0

Embryonic stem cell research wears no political stripes - it is embraced by conservatives, liberals, Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. Votes: 0

I raised another shot. "That sound you hear is the heads of moral conservatives spontaneously exploding in the distance. Votes: 0

Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together. Votes: 0

If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it. Votes: 0

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating. Votes: 0

We have seven months before the election. Our top priority as fiscal conservatives is to make sure President Obama retires. Votes: 0

I don't like conservatives. They always talk about the good old days. I'm black, we have no good old days. Votes: 0

I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard. Votes: 0

That is [liberalism's] goal - to destroy the family [liberals] just made up this gay marriage thing gays are natural conservatives. Votes: 0

When conservatives talk about opportunity, they mean opportunities for the rich to get richer, for the powerful to get more powerful. Votes: 0

There are conservatives in Hollywood who make good movies. They just don't make conservative movies because that's not what gets funded. Votes: 0

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims there are no homosexuals in Iran, just like there are no gay conservatives in the US. Votes: 0

The takings clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals. Votes: 0

The base that Donald Trump is speaking to are not that conservative, at least not the way conservatives have defined themselves. Votes: 0

The 'takings' clause of the Fifth Amendment is for conservatives what the equal protection clause of the 14th is for liberals. Votes: 0

The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians. Votes: 0

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it... Votes: 0

As conservatives, we can only be glad if two people legally take responsibility for each other, in good times and bad. Votes: 0

Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion. Votes: 0

I'm very proud to have joined with conservatives in both the Senate and the House to reform how we target bad guys. Votes: 0

In the conventional wisdom of conservatives, the modern search for security is regularly billed as the greatest single threat to economic progress. Votes: 0

Liberals like using government to solve problems in OUR country and conservatives are using our government to solve problems in OTHER countries. Votes: 0

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments. Votes: 0

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. Votes: 0

The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything Votes: 0

We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech. Votes: 0

The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures. Votes: 0

The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives. Votes: 0

Foreign journalists writing about Turkey like to focus on the most fundamental divide in Turkish society: the rift between religious conservatives and secularists. Votes: 0

I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately. Votes: 0

I represent an emerging group of leaders within the Jewish community who are conservatives; not just fiscal conservatives, but social conservatives as well. Votes: 0

We conservatives don't have a corner on saying 'no'. We're just the ones who say it when it's the right thing to say. Votes: 0

Used to be, conservatives revered the Average American, that Norman Rockwell oil painting of diner food, humble faith, honest toil, and Capraesque virtue. Votes: 0

I'm not going to assume liberals are stupid, as they do with conservatives. No, I'll attribute it instead to more fraud and deceit. Votes: 0

The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across. Votes: 0

A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration. Votes: 0

Economic conservatives like immigration reform, and in fact, many of them supported the bill that John McCain and I put together in the Senate. Votes: 0

Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media. Votes: 0

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything. Votes: 0

Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abstract reason – that is, reason divorced from experience. Votes: 0

When liberals advocate a value-added tax, conservatives should respond: Taxing consumption has merits, so we will consider it - after the 16th Amendment is repealed. Votes: 0

The mainline media attacks all conservatives, especially Christians, and distorts their policies and beliefs so that the local population is afraid to vote for them. Votes: 0

I've always wondered how in the hell we conservatives became denoted by red. That's a commie color! It is! The liberals have always been red! Votes: 0

The reality of it is I think the GOP - Republicans and certainly conservatives - will partner with the Tea Party movement around this country. Votes: 0

There are some in black robes sitting on federal benches all across this country. They're Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and even conservatives that pervert the Constitution. Votes: 0

Liberals and conservatives are looking for entirely different things. Their attitudes toward romance and how they court are really dramatically different. There's almost no overlap. Votes: 0

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives. Votes: 0

Most of the media bullshit you about who they are. We don't. We're not programming to conservatives, we're just not eliminating their point of view. Votes: 0

People of all political persuasions - conservatives, moderates, and liberals alike - need to dedicate themselves once again to preserving the moral foundation of our society. Votes: 0

No day passes without a Democratic politician, a left-wing commentator, or, if I may be excused a redundancy, a left-wing academic labeling Republicans and conservatives racist. Votes: 0

Mr. Cain would structurally change the voting demographic. There would be more black economic conservatives, and the Democrats would lose their stranglehold on the black vote. Votes: 0

As governor of California in 1970, Reagan endeared himself to millions of conservatives nationwide when he publicly rebuked the anti-war movement that was exploding on college campuses. Votes: 0

Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution. Votes: 0

This is what many people in the movie industry don't get: when you express hostility to conservatives, many Americans feel that you're expressing hostility to them. Votes: 0

Big government conservatives are spending trillions and wasting billions. Republicans are no longer the party of fiscal conservancy, but the party of runaway spending and corruption. Votes: 0

Whereas liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think. Votes: 0

If conservatives get to call universal healthcare 'socialized medicine,' I get to call private, for-profit healthcare 'soulless, vampire bastards making money off human pain.' Votes: 0

So the majority of Americans are conservatives. They believe in things like the Constitution. I know that's weird to some people but they believe in it. Votes: 0

There's a whole industry of conservatives saying, 'Ah, it's those damn liberals,' and a whole group of liberals saying, 'It's all those damn conservatives.'... Votes: 0

We have to fight twice as hard, three times as hard - not only as conservatives, but frankly, as women - to have our voices heard. Votes: 0

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own. Votes: 0

I do great with Tea Party, I do great with conservatives I do great with moderates, I do great with evangelicals, I do great with everybody. Votes: 0

It isn't that black people are protected in America by the left; it's that black liberals are protected just as female liberals are protected, not conservatives. Votes: 0

Obama is huge in the polls these days. His popularity is soaring. Even conservatives are coming around. 30 percent of them now believe Obama deserves a Green Card. Votes: 0

Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder. Votes: 0

The effort of Reince Priebus and the RNC to reach out to movement conservatives has been impressive and will, I believe pay great dividends come election time Votes: 0

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans. Votes: 0

"Moderate" Republicans such as Arnold Schwarzenegger like to boast that they're fiscal conservatives and social liberals. But the social liberalism always ends up burying the fiscal conservatism. Votes: 0

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries. Votes: 0

Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in the market. Votes: 0

Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think. Votes: 0

It's the progressive left in this country that has viciously and systematically slimed female conservatives for their beliefs. We have the well-worn battle scars to prove it. Votes: 0

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter. Votes: 0

It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end. Votes: 0

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots. Votes: 0

Social conservatives seem to see a bigger threat to marriage from committed gay couples who want in on it than from straight ones who opt out of it. Votes: 0

The myth of the liberal media empowers conservatives to control debate in the United States to the point where liberals cannot even hope for a fair shake anymore. Votes: 0

[Facism] that incredibly loaded word we do not associate with the real American politics is being used by other conservatives, by other Republicans to talk about Donald Trump. Votes: 0

The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin. Votes: 0

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time. Votes: 0

The more propaganda . . . conservatives spread for capitalist economics while at the same time preaching collectivism morally and philosophically , the more nails they’ll drive into capitalism’s coffin. Votes: 0

Why is it fair game to question conservatives' love or loyalty to children or to their fellow man, but beyond the pale to question liberals' love of country? Votes: 0

The Republicans or conservatives always, when it comes to judging, when it comes to legalities, always try to do the right thing even if it harms their interests. Votes: 0

2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation. Votes: 0

Dreher is correct in saying that traditionalist conservatives also have been conservationists...I think most conservatives should agree that this is an area we need to think more about. Votes: 0

War has all the characteristics of socialism most conservatives hate: Centralized power, state planning, false rationalism, restricted liberties, foolish optimism about intended results, and blindness to unintended secondary results. Votes: 0

It has been surprising to me that so few conservatives have voiced concern over the precedence that are being set in favor of suppression by this so-called conservative administration. Votes: 0

The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature. Votes: 0

It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil. Votes: 0

When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich and everybody else, so instead, conservatives try to argue that it doesn't exist. Votes: 0

Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem. Votes: 0

The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks. Votes: 0

Black conservatives have a right to exist, but why would I want to walk around with a swastika on my shirt after the way Hitler done messed it up? Votes: 0

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives. Votes: 0

I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred. Votes: 0

Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics. Votes: 0

The anti-marijuana campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents. Votes: 0

I don't believe that same-sex marriages would weaken heterosexual marriage. Marriage is not a scarce resource. I thought that conservatives worried about too few people choosing marriage, not too many. Votes: 0

The issue of environmental quality is one which transcends traditional political boundaries. It is a cause which can attract, and very sincerely, liberals, conservatives, radicals, reactionaries, freaks, and middle-class straights. Votes: 0

This always confuses liberals, that conservatives like the military and don't like the bureaucracy. That's because the military has their guns pointed out and the bureaucracy has them pointed in. Votes: 0

We have a pope [Francis] who's very popular among the Catholic faithful and non-Catholics, but there's no doubt he's going to continue to face resistance from conservatives inside the church. Votes: 0

The left considers conservatives and Republicans to be their number one enemy, not Islam. Certainly not Islam! We conservatives and Republicans are a greater enemy that even Al-Qaeda or ISIS. Votes: 0

The left considers conservatives and Republicans to be their number one enemy, not Islam. Certainly not Islam! We conservatives and Republicans are a greater enemy that even Al-Qaeda or ISIS. Votes: 0

I think that sometimes conservatives are way too naive to understand the zeal that liberals have in trying to destroy using Alinsky tactics the very humanity of their conservative opponents. Votes: 0

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives. Votes: 0

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes. Votes: 0

One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism. Votes: 0

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that. Votes: 0

I know some in the media think conservatives don't care about the cities, but they're wrong. We believe that every American and in every community has a right to pursue happiness. Votes: 0

'The Lorax,'...it's a mythical, woodland creature, right, who's for saving trees. He speaks for the trees because no one else can. Kind of the way conservatives speak for fetuses. Votes: 0

We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country. Votes: 0

Our two-party system is a fraud, a sham, a delusion. On foreign policy, trade, immigration, Big Government, we have one-party government, one party press; and conservatives are being played for suckers. Votes: 0

The struggle between the opponents and defenders of capitalism is a struggle between innovators who do not know what innovation to make and conservatives who do not know what to conserve. Votes: 0

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself. Votes: 0

There is only one candidate in this election who can universally mobilize conservatives, and as evident from the variety of primary victors, none of them is a Republican. It's Hillary Clinton. Votes: 0

The rival ideologies of the left and right are both pining for the 50s. The only difference is that liberals want to work there, while conservatives want to go home there. Votes: 0

This is the difference between conservatives and liberals. Liberals want justices to vote a certain way. We [ conservatives] want a particular legal philosophy, a philosophy for how to interpret the Constitution. Votes: 0

Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them. Votes: 0

Actually, I never really look at myself as a real radical activist; I am more the conservative. I mean, the conservatives are trying to conserve; the radicals are destroying the planet. Votes: 0

There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision global democratic revolution into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives. Votes: 0

Forgive me for noting that conservatives seem to believe that the rich will work harder if we give them more, and the poor will work harder if we give them less. Votes: 0

The Lorax,'...it's a mythical, woodland creature, right, who's for saving trees. He speaks for the trees because no one else can. Kind of the way conservatives speak for fetuses. Votes: 0

This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries. Votes: 0

As much as the social conservatives might not like to hear it, there will be a time when your grandchildren say: 'What was the argument with gay marriage? Who cares?' Votes: 0

I think that is why we're seeing conservatives uniting behind our campaign, because I have a proven record as a consistent conservative of standing up to Washington and fighting for the constitution. Votes: 0

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives. Votes: 0

You know, probably the notion that conservatives, Republicans, only care about the rich and that Democrats care about the poor - is that true? And nothing could be further from the truth. Votes: 0

The people of South Carolina support conservatives who are trying to push real change, and the people of South Carolina expect their presidential candidates to back them up when they show courage. Votes: 0

I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist. Votes: 0

It is time for conservatives to do what they do best and insist that a wasteful, inefficient government program gets off the books. Small government and the death penalty don't go together. Votes: 0

If you can stitch together that kind of coalition with young people, bringing together conservatives and evangelicals - and I will tell you, in Iowa, we also won Reagan Democrats, working-class voters. Votes: 0

There are a lot of people whose livelihoods depend on keeping lots of conservatives terrified and ill-informed. The groups that exist to raise funds raise more funds when they endorse the crazier candidate. Votes: 0

A French Republican is a Republican who beats up on conservatives and is constantly praising the Democrats and contributing to the massive spending in this country while they go home and pretend otherwise. Votes: 0

All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effiminated by position of nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. Votes: 0

When talking about unicorns, minotaurs, or compassionate conservatives, one does not normally have to prove their non-existence; the mere lack of any evidence is sufficient reason not to believe in any of them. Votes: 0

Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence. Votes: 0

The many - and by the way, white, black, Asian, it covers everybody. Evangelicals, conservatives, Tea Partyers. Everybody has been hurt by the incompetent way that our government is run. By incompetent negotiators. Votes: 0

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him. Votes: 0

What conservatives and Republicans must recognize is that the White House has broken with them. What President Bush is doing, and has been doing for some time, is sundering a great political coalition. Votes: 0

Barbara Comstock is a solid and reliable conservative. I've known her for many years. She'd make a great member of Congress. I am happy to join other conservatives and proudly endorse her candidacy. Votes: 0

Republicans and conservatives have to figure out that Democrats have plenty of rope to hang themselves on their own. But you have to give voters a reason to vote for you as well. Votes: 0

To those of you who would classify yourselves as conservatives I would say, meditate long and hard on Jesus' saying "Whatever you do to the least of these you have done to me". Votes: 0

Sixty-five months into Bush's presidency, conservatives feel betrayed The main cause of conservatives' anger with Bush is this: He talked like a conservative to win our votes but never governed like a conservative. Votes: 0

Instead of 'counterrevolutionaries,' liberals' opponents are called 'haters,' 'those who seek to divide us,' 'tea baggers,' and 'right-wing hate groups.' Meanwhile, conservatives call liberals 'liberals'-and that makes them testy. Votes: 0

Freedom is the one value conservatives place above all others, yet time and again, their ideal of freedom ignores the growing imbalance of power in our society that's eroding the freedoms of most people. Votes: 0

A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything. Votes: 0

Personally, I always find it especially piquant when cultural conservatives, usually quick to profess their devotion to the Free Market, rail against the success in said market of some product of which they disapprove. Votes: 0

Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people. Votes: 0

If you look at the polls - the conservatives are fine.I think there will be a fair amount of enthusiasm, or at least motivation. They very much want to remove President [Barack] Obama. Votes: 0

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with. Votes: 0

I take note of the fact that there are a lot of people who appreciate what I do as parliament president, not just within my Social Democratic party group, but also among the conservatives. Votes: 0

If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments. Votes: 0

We conservatives can win the ideological battles on a level playing field. Our ideas are better. Given fair elections based on contributions from regular voters, instead of $100,000 checks from business-as-usual special interests, we will prevail. Votes: 0

And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred. Votes: 0

And conservatives know that if you reject these principles of limited government and urge others to reject them you can be my ally, you can be my friend but you cannot call yourself a conservative. Votes: 0

There are many reasons why the Republican establishment hates Donald Trump, and some of them are legitimate. I mean, a lot of people have sensible reasons for be being afraid of Trump - Republicans, conservatives. Votes: 0

[Nominee for the Supreme Court] will be something designed to very much please conservatives, even as they may get a little nervous on some of what he's talking about in terms of ObamaCare and infrastructure. Votes: 0

There's a rising level of frustration with the disconnect between where the vast majority of conservatives are in this country and how Congress is behaving. There's going to be a wake-up call sooner or later. Votes: 0

We're doing a horrible job, and by "we" I mean conservatives, Republicans, free marketers, anyone who believes in liberty is doing a horrible job if half of young people think socialism is a good idea. Votes: 0

I can deal with conservatives in a democracy. With real conservatives, I don't agree with them, but I understand why they believe what they believe and I believe they're being honest with me about it. Votes: 0

If liberalism has grown so weak and ineffective, why does it evoke such alarm on the part of conservatives? It turns out that while liberals are weak and spineless, they are also sneaky and clever. Votes: 0

Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles. Votes: 0

What happens to conservatives when they get near the White House? How come they only seem to be talking the good talk at, say, the Senate level, when they don't have to run the show? Votes: 0

By the accusation of liberal bias ... the institutions that conservatives revere - the military, corporate America, organized religion, and the powerful conservative groups themselves - will be able to escape scrutiny and increase their influence. Votes: 0