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We Conservatives hate unemployment. -- Margaret Thatcher
Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration. -- Marco Rubio
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. -- George Will
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. -- John Stuart Mill
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen. -- Mort Sahl
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. -- 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, come out of the closet -- Jon Bruning
Conservatives and liberals can find common ground. -- Jesse Jackson
Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals. -- William Rehnquist
The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work. -- Zach Wamp
For Conservatives, seeing is believing. For liberals, believing is seeing. -- George Will
Conservatives claim [Hillary] Clinton campaign involved in satanic 'spirit cooking'. -- Bill Maher
The problem with Republicans and Conservatives is we attack each other. -- Greg Gutfeld
The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter. -- John Bright
Conservatives have always wanted border security before we had immigration reform. -- Rand Paul
Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome. -- Mike Rosen
Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do. -- Ann Coulter
I'm not interested in giving aid and comfort to the neoÂ-Conservatives. -- Susan Sontag
Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century. -- Paul Begala
Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost. -- John Podhoretz
Conservatives want live babies so they can train them to be dead soldiers. -- George Carlin
Conservatives are much more comfortable supporting the leader who's in power than liberals. -- Jonathan Chait
Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity. -- Rush Limbaugh
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. -- Christopher Lasch
Conservatives truly love America and support the armed forces, while liberals are unpatriotic draft dodgers. -- Joe Conason
People are voting for Conservatives in greater numbers, but it's not translating into Conservative seats. -- Allan Gregg
Conservatives want to make the poor rich, while liberals want to make the rich poor. -- Mark W. Smith
Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now. -- Rick Perry
British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so. -- William Randolph Hearst
Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century. -- Michael Kinsley
Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty. -- Jonah Goldberg
Conservatives believe in providing Constitutional rights to our citizens, not to enemy combatants like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. -- Mitt Romney
Conservatives consider liberals well-intentioned, but misguided. Liberals consider conservatives not only wrong, but really, really bad people. -- Larry Elder
Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's 2006 attacks on Michael J. Fox for campaigning about stem cell research. -- Christine Pelosi
Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks. -- Steven Rattner
Conservatives often say that we should care not about equality of outcomes but about equality of opportunity. -- Timothy Noah
Conservatives are more religious than liberals--although there is no evidence that they're nicer people because of it. -- Andy Rooney
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. -- Fareed Zakaria
I support gay marriage. I support gay marriage because I believe Conservatives support the institutions of commitment. -- George Osborne
Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans, -- Ken Mehlman
Conservatives believe that from the standpoint of the federal government, life begins at conception and ends at birth. -- Barney Frank
The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others. -- Brian Mulroney
The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world. -- John Bercow
Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans. -- Ken Mehlman
Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead. -- Roger Scruton
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. -- Christopher Lasch
Conservatives have been using poor black and Latino children as mascots in the voucher crusade for a decade. -- Cynthia Tucker
Good Conservatives always pay their bills. And on time. Not like the Socialists who run up other people's bills. -- Margaret Thatcher
As Conservatives, We Don't Care About The Color of Your Skin, We Care About The Color of Our Flag -- Allen West
Conservatives understand that the power that binds our republic together is fierce independence held high on the shoulders of compassion. -- Allen West
Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives. -- Graydon Carter
When Conservatives crusade against government while they are trying to be appointed to head the government, I think that's weird! -- Rachel Maddow
Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't -- Bill Whittle
The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps. -- Norman Tebbit
Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents. -- Alex Pareene
Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it. -- Rush Limbaugh
Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor. -- Dennis Prager
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
The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the Members' Dining Room, the Conservatives eat at one end, the Labour Party at the other, while the Liberals wait at table. -- Gyles Brandreth
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 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 a different view of a lot of issues versus our friends on the other side. The election determines how that shakes out. -- Lindsey Graham
To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil. -- Charles Krauthammer
Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary. -- Tom Robbins
The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power. -- Craig Shirley
Liberals want the government to be your Mommy. Conservatives want government to be your Daddy. Libertarians want it to treat you like an adult. -- Andre Marrou
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 try to adjust their behavior to fit the facts of nature. Liberals try to adjust the facts of nature to fit their behavior. -- Frank Turek
Conservatives tend to believe there is a close and necessary connection between prosperity and freedom - that economic freedom is an essential part of human freedom. -- Edwin Feulner
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 should question how the death penalty actually works in order to stay true to small government, reduction in wasteful spending, and respect for human life. -- Jay Sekulow
Conservatives say a lot about wanting the government stay out of our lives and businesses. We need to make sure the government stays out of our uteruses. -- Chrissy Teigen
Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the new people whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to -- Edith Wharton
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
You know, we have main English language parties, federalist parties, and traditionally the ones to watch would be the Conservatives, who form the government, and then the Liberals. -- Rick Mercer
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
Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save. -- Robert Frost
Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals. -- Ronald Reagan
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 Fanta Swaray
If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form. -- Vince Cable
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, 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 Fanta Swaray
Conservatives define compassion not by the number of people who recieve some kind of government aid but rather by the number of people who no longer need it. -- Jack Kemp
At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair. -- John Redwood
For the second time in history the Conservatives will have a female prime minster, proving that we are not just the greatest but the most progressive party in Britain. -- Andrea Leadsom
Conservatives were griping for decades about liberal media and nobody paid attention. Now, all of a sudden, one news channel has gotten a whole new community of people freaked out. -- Michael K. Powell
Conservatives like Palin and Reagan and others do seem to love the series, but so do people of all political stripes and backgrounds. I speak about the series' "radiant simplicity." -- Judith Thurman
There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives. -- Douglas Alexander
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
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much. -- James A. Garfield
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 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 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
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And in English Canada, no one really knows where the support is coming from, but Conservatives would assume that it's bleeding from the Liberals. So we have a divided left in Canada. -- Rick Mercer
While President Obama shirks his responsibility to advance solutions to our fiscal challenges, he can no longer hide from the merciless math of the balance sheet. Conservatives have made certain of that. -- Paul Ryan
Conservatives... are so opposed to government regulations that they are skeptical of anyone who identifies a problem that requires regulatory solutions - and they are inherently accepting of those who downplay such problems. -- Joseph J. Romm
Conservatives insist that government should be " run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does not market goods and services for the purpose of capital accumulation. -- Michael Parenti
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
On the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government: I think it should be made clear that the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats, they have not got into bed together; they are merely sharing a room. -- Gyles Brandreth
Conservatives have a deeper intellect and tend to have occupations of the brain in fields like engineering, science, and economics. Liberals, on the other hand, tend to flock to occupations of the heart. -- Dick Armey
We in the Labour party owe it to the people we represent to make sure that we offer a choice at the next election between our Labour values and those of the Conservatives. -- Lucy Powell
Conservatives are fond of pointing out there are problems in this world can't be solved by throwing money at them. There are even more that can't be solved by dropping bombs on them. -- Molly Ivins
[Being a] conservative also used to involve the concept of people being free to do whatever they want to do, as long as it doesn't hurt somebody else. Conservatives used to be very libertarian. -- Bill Maher
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it. -- Glenn Beck
Conservatives say if you don't give the rich more money, they will lose their incentive to invest. As for the poor, they tell us they've lost all incentive because we've given them too much money. -- George Carlin
I read quite a few complaints last night about Lester Holt's choice of debate topics. Liberals wanted to know why climate change didn't come up. Conservatives thought there should have been a question about abortion. -- Kevin Drum
Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. -- George Carlin
Conservatives have been mad at the Supreme Court since it decided to desegregate the schools in 1954 and seen fit to blame the federal bench for everything that has happened since then that they don't like. -- Molly Ivins
Conservative policies have on the whole worked - insofar as any set of policies can be said to 'work' in the real world. Conservatives of the Reagan-Bush-Gingrich-Bush years have a fair amount to be proud of. -- William Kristol
Conservatives are driven and inspired by principles, not personalities. We therefore seek consistency with our elected officials. To the extent that they are not consistent, anger is the inevitable result, so yes, many will be angry. -- Chris McDaniel
I think the most basic difference between Liberalism and Conservatism today, at its core, is that Conservatives just seem to want a better world for themselves - while Liberals just seem to want a better world. -- Derek R. Audette
What has become clear is that Britain cannot trust the Conservatives to run the economy. Everyone knows that I'm all in favour of apprenticeships, but let me tell you this is no time for a novice. -- Gordon Brown
The future of Conservatism lies in our beliefs and values, not by throwing them away. We need to shed associations that bind us to past failures, but hold faith with those things that make us Conservatives. -- Iain Duncan Smith
Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it. -- Michael Parenti

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