All Quotes

Conservative women in politics run a punishing gauntlet. They endure psychological evaluations and near-gynecological exams their male and liberal counterparts do not.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research.
‐‐ Christine Pelosi

Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's politics of personal destruction when it came to smearing elected officials. 'Fair game,' they said, even when crass and crude. That's just the way it is.
‐‐ Christine Pelosi

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.
‐‐ Michael Kinsley

Conservatives and liberals can find common ground.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

Conservatives and liberals understand the Christian faith as a set of ideas because, so understood, Christianity seems to be a set of beliefs assessable to anyone upon reflection.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

Conservatives are always right about everything. We are. We are.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

Conservatives are, I think, correct to highlight family stability as a fundamental issue that goes to the welfare of children as much as food stamps or anything else.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

Conservatives are routinely pilloried on television. A&E likely greenlit 'Duck Dynasty' in the first place because executives believed Americans would laugh at the redneck antics of the self-described 'white trash' family.
‐‐ Ben Shapiro

Conservatives are telling elected leaders that expansion of Medicaid comes at a moral - or more overtly, a political - price. At what price are they willing to go back on years of proclaiming 'socialized medicine' as the slippery slope to 'rationing of health care,' 'death panels' and other claims far too gruesome to mention in polite company?
‐‐ Ronnie Musgrove

Conservatives are time-biders. And they understand, as Corey Robin explains in his indispensable book 'The Reactionary Mind,' that the direction of human history is not on their side - that is why they are reactionaries - because, other things equal, civilization does tend towards more inclusion, more emancipation, more liberalism.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.
‐‐ Rick Perry

Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.
‐‐ David Mamet

Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American and anti-Israeli cabals. Progressives do not like the economic medicine that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank force down the throats of developing countries.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

Conservatives believe the economy functions better if the rich have more money and everyone else has less. But they're wrong. It's just the opposite.
‐‐ Robert Reich

Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
‐‐ Steven Rattner

Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant.
‐‐ John Reid

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.
‐‐ Graydon Carter

Conservatives, despite their increasingly powerful presence on cable TV and talk radio, feel excluded and disregarded by the longstanding preponderance of liberal voices on public television.
‐‐ Michael Medved

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

Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans.
‐‐ Ken Mehlman

Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

Conservatives forget that citizenship is more than a thing to withhold from immigrants. Progressives forget it's more than a set of rights.
‐‐ Eric Liu

Conservatives frequently complain of being frozen out of the culture industry, though, like all industries, the culture industry will produce or sell anything it expects to profit from.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

Conservatives have a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out.
‐‐ Lindsey Graham

Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.
‐‐ Ann Coulter

Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform.
‐‐ Rand Paul

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.
‐‐ Alex Tabarrok

Conservatives have long been suspicious that Romney isn't truly one of them. The release of his tax returns should settle the matter once and for all: He's not only to be accepted, but admired and emulated - and by liberals as well as conservatives.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch

Conservatives highlight the primacy of family and argue that family breakdown exacerbates poverty, and they're right. Children raised by single parents are three times as likely to live in poverty as kids in two-parent homes.
‐‐ Nicholas Kristof

Conservatives like to talk about 'the strivers' who share what they like to think of as Conservative values. But as I found in my Blue Collar Tories research in 2012, such people no longer see the party as their natural ally.
‐‐ Michael Ashcroft

Conservatives like to think of animal protection as a trendy leftist cause, which makes it easier to brush off. And I hope that more of us will open our hearts to animals.
‐‐ Matthew Scully

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear.
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield

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

Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
‐‐ Patrick McHenry

Conservatives of Western North Carolina should send Mark Meadows to Congress. We need his help.
‐‐ Jeff Duncan

Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity.
‐‐ Timothy Noah

Conservatives, please. Let's not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is.
‐‐ David Horowitz

Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
‐‐ Karl Rove

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch

Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.
‐‐ Bill Kristol

Conservatives sometimes catch a tremendous about of flak from inside the Beltway - and those groups can exert extreme pressure on those conservative members to try to get them to vote in ways that are opposite of their core fundamental beliefs and the promises that they made to their constituents back in their districts.
‐‐ Jeff Landry

Conservatives tend to see the world more in terms of good-versus-evil and, for some of them, the nightmare is a disarmed citizenry that can be preyed upon by criminals. They know that having a gun in the house would increase the risk of an accident for a member of their family, but they're willing to take that risk.
‐‐ Jonathan Haidt

Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person.
‐‐ Estelle