I believe that I am more conservative than George W. Bush. However, it is important to note that he has had to govern, which often necessitates political compromise, I had not had to make any such concessions.
In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.
So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.
But I came from a conservative Republican background.
While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE. . . TORTURE. . .
I'm always looking for an opportunity to bring progressive Democrats together with some conservative libertarian types, because there are places where we can agree.
I truly believe Donald Trump is not a true conservative. His values as a Republican or a self-described Republican, when he mocks the disabled, when he really badly stumbles when asked about David Duke and the KKK, when he says that he admires Vladimir Putin and then quotes the dictator Francisco Mussolini - this is unfathomable to me that this is the type of individual who leads the party that I love.
He who today utters a bold truth that seems to shock some old institution with the premonition of destruction, and that scares men from their propriety, will a hundred years hence be regarded as a remarkably conservative man. And yet the people who stand peculiarly upon what they call the foundations of conservatism, and hold to hard, practical facts, now stand upon that which one hundred years ago was rank heresy.
Let's make it clear: the Conservative Party has no plans for new NHS charges.
I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.
No gains without pains.
Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
My experience in life tells me that the values that are now being labeled 'conservative' are the only way that blacks can get ahead.
Boom and bust is a term that applied to the Conservative years and two of the worst recessions in history.
Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.
The Republican - conservative Republican answer has always been when we lose it's because we're not ideological enough. If they lose midterm elections, that's why. If Obama defeats McCain and then Mitt Romney, it's because those two Republican candidates were not ideological enough.
I'm actually a fairly conservative person. I live a very conservative lifestyle.
I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.
Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.
The American Revolution was a vindication of liberties inherited and possessed. It was a conservative revolution.