#conservative

We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's what we need for our nominee, whether it is me or whether it is someone else. ↗

— Michele Bachmann

#believe #bold #conservative #constitutional #down

In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong. ↗

— Ed Balls

#bank #britain #civil #civil service #consensus

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#evil #hell #neither #neoconservatives #new

We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view. ↗

— Roger Ailes

#eliminating #just #point #point of view #programming

I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#conservative #get #having #i #image

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different. ↗

— Kenneth Baker

#clearly #collapsing #conservative #conservative party #different

There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#engage #going #growing #how #iraq

They call themselves conservatives but that’s not it, either. They don’t want to conserve what we now have. They’d rather take the country backwards – before the 1960s and 1970s, and the Environmental Protection Act, Medicare, and Medicaid; before the New Deal, and its provision for Social Security, unemployment insurance, the forty-hour workweek, and official recognition of trade unions; even before the Progressive Era, and the first national income tax, antitrust laws, and Federal Reserve. They’re not conservatives. They’re regressives. And the America they seek is the one we had in the Gilded Age of the late nineteenth century. ↗

— Robert Reich

#poitics #robert-reich #age

Everyone knows history is written by the winners, but that cliche misses a crucial detail: Over time, the winners are always the progressives. Conservatism can only win in the short term, because society cannot stop evolving (and social evolution inevitably dovetails with the agenda of those who see change as an abstract positive). It might take seventy years, but it always happens eventually. Serious historians are, almost without exception, self-styled progressives. Radical views--even the awful ones--improve with age. ↗

— Chuck Klosterman

#conservatives #evolution #historians #history #progressive

The government is hiring everybody I know, but I’m unemployed and in debt. I majored in the conservative arts. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #art