#conservatives

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that. ↗

— Eric Alterman

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We must return conservatives to the majority in the U.S. Senate. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#majority #must #return #senate

Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. ↗

— Karel Capek

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This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

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Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them. ↗

— Barney Frank

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Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion. ↗

— Thomas Frank

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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#contribute #destruction #forces #side #social

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

— Christopher Lasch

#claim #conservatives #defend #distorted #modern

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

— Christopher Lasch

#connection #conservatives #grasp #link #nature

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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