The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.
You can not be a conservative if you're going to keep promoting new programs that you're not going to pay for.
As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
Ronald Reagan is the closest thing [to the strong conservative] we have. He said that we shouldn't spend money we don't have, and he said that the government shouldn't get involved in things that it's not very good at doing.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.
America is conservative in fundamental principles. . . but the principles conserved are liberal and some, indeed, are radical.
I am a conservative Republican, a firm believer in free market capitalism. A free market system allows all parties to compete, which ensures the best and most competitive project emerges, and ensures a fair, democratic process.
. . . only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.
A conservative, a liberal, and a moderate walk into a bar. The bartender says, 'Hi, Mitt. '
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.
My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.
It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality. '
Sloanes aren't cafe society or NYLON hedge-funders with million-pound bonuses, or London Eurotrash wearing upgraded style anglais. Ann Barr's and my original picture of them in 'The Official Sloane Ranger Handbook,' published in 1982, was of an upper-middle-class world, conservative and fairly homogeneous, united by old attitudes and institutions.
Archetypes, in spite of their conservative nature, are not static but in a continuous dramatic flux. Thus the self as a monad or continuous unit would be dead. But it lives inasmuch as it splits and unites again. There is no energy without opposites!
I tend to be what I would call more progressive than conservative, but I think either extreme is excessive.
Prince Charles's concern for the underprivileged and disadvantaged has not exactly endeared him to the Conservative Central Office. As Norman Tebbit replied, it is not surprising that the Prince is so sympathetic towards the unemployed: he is by way of being one of them himself.
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.