Intellectually religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.
Every great movement and which the conservative movement is, of course, every great movement ends up being a little bit sclerotic and dusty after a time and I think they need new fusion of energy.
I guess I can call myself a pragmatist with a conservative perspective. It would be hard for me to explain this, but I always take realities of today, lessons from the distant and recent past into consideration.
I've rebelled against all types of conformity throughout my life, not just Utah's conservative culture
I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.
I call myself a constitutional conservative.
Our philosophy has been to be fiscally conservative, so we can be operationally aggressive. We're not using borrowed money to grow. So we'll put up a store just to get there before the competition. If it doesn't work, we'll close it and lose a little equity. It won't kill us.
Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it.
People always say, "Could it have been a show about a conservative Republican administration?" No! Nobody wants to watch that! Watching Republicans flirt makes people queasy!
I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.
Conservative ideas are alive and dynamic, the result of a free and intellectually honest vision for the country. As long as conservatism is strong, the future of a strong America is assured.
The axis today is not liberal and conservative, the axis is constructive-destructive.
I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
. . . only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as "nonpatisan, nonprofit. " Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as "right-wing" or "conservative. "
Everyone knows Bob Beckel views, radical left wing, socialist. He says he's a Democrat. But what may surprise you is that he actually has a conservative brother.
The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.
It's so much easier to do press if you take positions that the press likes than to take conservative Republican positions.
This is a very, very conservative judge who in his dissenting opinions is overwhelmingly likely to be more conservative than the majority.