#conservative

I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#believe #certain #certain things #conservative #fiscal

Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from. ↗

— J. C. Watts

#black #budget #came #clock #conservatives

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#been #conservative #liberal #who

When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#conservatives #democrats #distance #either #i

Small-business customers are very conservative and very cheap. We don't have to explain ourselves for the most part. ↗

— Paul Graham

#conservative #customers #explain #most #ourselves

Let the liberal turn to the course of action, the course of all radicals, and the amused look vanishes from the face of society as it snarls, “That’s radical!” Society has good reason to fear the radical. Every shaking advance of mankind toward equality and justice has come from the radical. He hits, he hurts, he is dangerous. Conservative interests know that while liberals are most adept at breaking their own necks with their tongues, radicals are most adept at breaking the necks of conservatives. ↗

— Saul D. Alinsky

#conservatives #rules-for-radicals #equality

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. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#broad #conservative #country #environmental #environmental problems

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

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#conduct #conservative #i #i am #method

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. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#communist #conservative #controlled #criteria #democrat

The pro-growth policies and spending restraint of Conservatives work. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#policies #pro-growth #pro-growth policies #restraint #spending