Conservatives Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It's not merely that conservatives are better at selling their product, or that they happen to have an easier-and undoubtedly simpler-ideological product to sell. It's that they know what they are selling. Liberals in general and Obama in particular cannot say the same.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.

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

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

Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.

Conservatives who believe that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the plain meaning of its language and the original intent of the Framers have long been troubled by the court's decisions expanding the commerce clause to authorize Congress to regulate the most local of matters within a state's borders.

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

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

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

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

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.

Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.