In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.
I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt.
The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever.
As far as I know, the most conservative estimates of the number of Americans who would be killed in a major nuclear attack, with everything working as well as can be hoped and all foreseeable precautions taken, run to about fifty million.
The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.
There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders as cavalier amateurs of science. And then you have the bodybuilders who view the doctors as too conservative to do anything interesting. So I've tried to become the middleman for putting some of those pieces together.
The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.
It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.
I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.
People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists as part of research for my book, 'Gang of Five,' chronicling the rise of the baby-boomer Right.
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.
I grew up conservative because my mum was a conservative, and when I finally realized what conservatives were, I changed my mind immediately.
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative.
I'm a Republican; I'd say I'm a conservative Republican. My job as RNC chair is to elect Republicans all across this country.
So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.
I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.
I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.
Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.
I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.
Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.
I think others may look at the uniqueness of my candidacy, the fact that I'm an African-American, conservative tea party Republican, and somehow race injects itself into the conversation.
Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.
So the danger of conservative judicial activism has been averted for another year. Stay tuned.
I'm a can-do conservative, and I just love the job, and I think I'm going to get re-elected.
The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.
We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.
In the 2012 campaign, the president successfully transformed the most intense conservative positions into liabilities on immigration and the role of government.
I haven't always voted for the same party, mostly because I find that strange. One thing I've never quite understood is when people say 'I'm a Conservative' or 'I'm Labour,' before even hearing what the person running stands for or wants to change.
It's happened time and time again, but the committee has always decided against it-the work was too conservative or didn't fit within the budget; there are millions of different reasons.
There is no question that Hannity is a conservative. But I can tell you from personal experience after having worked with O'Reilly for years now, you never know where he is going to come out on an issue. He definitely leans right when it comes to certain social, traditional value issues, but he's all over the board on certain other issues.
Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.
I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.
I am a small-government conservative who clings tenaciously and old-fashionedly to the idea that one ought to have balanced budgets.