Top 1200 Conservative Political Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Ma Ying-jeou tends to use cross-strait policy as an election tool and a political tool, too, and my position is that we don't use that as a political tool because that is an issue that is critical and essential to the interests of the Taiwanese people.

There was a time, before I was in graduate school, when political philosophy pretty much ceased to exist. The positivists thought there were only two things you could do: conceptual analysis or empirical investigation. Any kind of political theory or even ethical theory was nonsense.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office from economic power held by citizens, and the broad diffusion of privately owned economic power.

For historic reasons - principally the political Right's opposition to gay rights - most gay spokespeople continue to think that the political Right is the sole locale from which anti-gay sentiment can come.

It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.

I come from a working-class family. They're the people I know and the people I love, I guess. I do not write about them for political reasons, but because, as I see it, most interesting things - social, political, emotional - take place there. It's a bottomless well for an author like me.

Fiscally I'm very conservative ... others say that I'm socially moderate.

Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.

That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.

The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

I am my own man. I governed as a conservative, and I govern effectively.

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

Claims of anti-conservative bias in the tech industry are baseless.

I'm pretty conservative on a lot of things. I don't want to get hurt.

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with China's national conditions.

I don't think having a conservative mind in 2012 is a cool thing.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

We do not have many women leaders in the world. But if you look at the current examples, most of those few female leaders that we have today lead their countries under the pressure of difficult political and economic circumstances. They all posses strong personalities and have real political influence on the domestic and international scene.

Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations - clubs, associations, political parties, unions - to which politicians were responsive.

To ignore [the] great social facts -- political facts, if you please -- and over-emphasize the old moral responsibility of the 'domestic' mother is a hollow mockery and betrays a hopeless ignorance of industrial and urban conditions in the Twentieth Century. ... Everything that counts in the common life is political.

Trump is an innovator who has shown how out of step the political establishment was. Which I think, probably, in the long term will be healthy. We have to figure out how to reinvigorate our political institutions and he's demonstrating to us the urgency of that task.

I was the original moderniser in the Conservative Party, telling it, 'No change, no chance.'

What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.

We are deceiving ourselves if we believe that a literary work written and published in a country where 70 per cent of the population is illiterate, can change the political and social life of the country..it is up to political organization..and not to romantic literature.. to change the present situation.

I'm not conservative, but I am kind of clean living in my own life.

I think The New Yorker's cartoons aren't very political because the people who do the cartoons aren't awfully political people, and they aren't paid to be political. I think editorial cartoonists are. That's what they do. They probably have a great natural interest in politics, and then they are paid to do it, so they sort of have to hunt out these ideas. I admire editorial cartoons, but I'm also sort of happy that I don't do them because I'd hate to have to label things and I'd especially hate, more than anything, to label something Dennis Hastert or Mark Foley.

Compassionate conservative, that's like having a gun rack on a Volvo.

It's very important to the conservative movement to be rid of the Ex-Im Bank.

I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.

My tendency has always been to lean more conservative, for sure.

If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C.

I'm from the South. I'm a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I'm a Republican.

I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.

If you want to say something radical, you should dress conservative.

Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.

What I owe the Tea Party is to be the conservative voice they elected me to be.

Can one understand politics without understanding history, especially the history of political thought, and will this distinguish political philosophy from some other kinds of philosophy (such as, perhaps, logic) to which the study of history is not integral?

Your political views should be your political views. I believe in business being non-partisan.

I knew early on that I wanted to be a reporter, but I didn't know I was a political journalist until my first job in Boston, in the '70s, covering the public school committee at a time when busing was a huge issue. Children's lives were being directly affected by political decisions, and that's when I realized that everything is politics.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

[Donald] Trump and his Trumpeteers, well, they're not conservative enough.

My belief is that most people are conservative. They just haven't been asked yet.

Empirical evidence collected and analyzed by political scientists demonstrates that judicial pensions are the most important factor in a Justice's decision to retire, far more important than the party of the President or which political party has control of the Senate.

I'm probably the most uptight, conservative person you'll meet. I'm very religious.

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.

For a label for me, 'conservative' is more appropriate than 'Republican.'

If we look conservative, it's because the other guys are so far to the left.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

In 1987, the United States celebrates the bicentennial anniversary of the constitutional convention that provided the basic rules for the American political order. This convention was one of the very few historical examples in which political rules were deliberately chosen.

Pay 2 Play vividly tells the story of the threat posed to our political process by big money interests and what we can do to fight back to defend our Republic. This is a must-see movie for anyone who cares about the cause of democracy and the promise of political equality for all.

I hadn't expected to be kidnapped today or I'd have worn something more conservative.

Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.