Conservative Quotes (757 Quotes)

I did a lot of shopping for her in Tokyo because the colors here are very conservative. A shopaholic would have a coat in every color and lots of accessories

Confucius is like the Torah, rules to follow. And Lao-Tzu is even more conservative, saying that if you do nothing you won't break any rules. You have to let tradition fall sometime, you have to take action, you have to eat bacon.

I am very pleased the Liberal opposition was able to force government into finally taking action - after several years of Conservative delay tactics.

I've been interested in watching the level of conservative misinformation that circulates through the media.

It's pretty conservative, but I think it's also realistic given the turmoil and the troubles present here in North America.

I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.

In days gone by, the kick was considered a conservative, no-risk option but now it has become almost the risky route,

To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late.

Only the activists, liberal and conservative, will remember this vote.

We learned at least back then he was quite conservative. He was even a relative conservative in the Reagan Justice Department, which is saying something,

We think we're reasonable. I wouldn't characterize it as conservative, but moderate.

Now, fortunately we have a conservative women's club,

The question becomes, which is the conservative and which is the radical decision I think the more radical choice, frankly, is not to give the vaccine.

Nor do the nation's regionally and ethnically diverse Latinos attach themselves to just one party on the issues. The Hispanic vote is very hard to pigeonhole, ... On certain issues, they're very conservative. On other issues, just the opposite - they're very liberal.

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.

a conservative with an agenda or a conservative who will be open-minded.

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

That would lead to more bullish analyst reports on the companies, which would help the stock price. We wouldn't change our estimates on the company, but we'd say in the reports the official expectation was conservative.

Reform is affirmative, conservatism negative conservatism goes for comfort, reform for truth. The Conservative

We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

It's hard for me to say. I'm not out there. I don't know how their practices were being run. It's hard to make those statements from afar. Those are the issues that obviously are concerning to all the clubs involved. . . . I don't know if (Team USA) was too aggressive or too conservative. I just don't know.

Not surprisingly, it's hard to draw hard-and-fast conclusions on how he will vote, ... There is no question he is a conservative.

I knew Sam, but I didn't know he was conservative. I didn't hear a political peep out of him until years later.

Most absurdly in the program, the Aidan Quinn character is portrayed as a courageous priest challenging a conservative church hierarchy. In real life, the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut has a liberal bishop who is cracking down on dissenting conservative priests. The national Episcopal hierarchy is overwhelmingly liberal, and orthodox Episcopalians are increasingly looking to overseas Anglican primates for leadership and protection.

We'd all like to believe Intel's forecast is conservative, but I don't think it behooves them to be conservative. I would argue they're painting a realistic picture.

That Roberts is a conservative Republican willing and no doubt enthusiastic to be part of Bush I, we already knew, ... We will not learn much else from any memo from his time at the solicitor general's office unless improbably a personal note from him to the attorney general was revealed.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

I thought it was extraordinary that I was getting this personal message from the person perceived as the top conservative in the White House, and that had some weight, ... But he said, 'Look, Gary, this guy is a conservative, and he's going to be a reliable conservative on our side of the issues.'

I was quite conservative, never pushed to the limit except at the end when Rubens was catching me.

I'm a liberal when it comes to human rights, the poor so's George Bush.... But Liberal and Conservative don't mean much to me anymore. Does that mean we care about people and are interested and want to help And if that makes you a Liberal, so be it.

In an up cycle, it is very difficult to forecast the velocity of the earnings growth. Therefore, Wall Street prices in a premium for these stocks because it's human nature to be conservative,

My ambitions are to continue to support Stephen Harper and the Conservative party and see that he becomes the next prime minister of Canada and that our party forms government in the next election,

The real point is not that the court is conservative, but that the spectrum of views on the court today represents a particular range, from ardent conservative to central or moderate liberal. There's something to be said for a court of centrists, but that's not what we have. One end of the spectrum is represented, and not the other.

Frank Raines stood on the sidelines, leaving Eleanor Holmes Norton all by herself to fend against these big, bad, conservative Republicans,

She's gone down the liberal road, and I've gone down the conservative road, ... You've seen the jobs being chased away from your state, and we've seen jobs grow in our state.

It's a conservative budget. We always overestimate our expenditures and underestimate our revenues, so we should be in pretty good shape by the end of the year.

What drew me to Office Space was just doing something totally different. Almost theatre-like, completely over the top, a real departure from News Radio. I think I am conservative, not eccentric. I don't have any inhibitions about making a fool of myself, but you have to, to be in comedy.

We want the president to pick another solid conservative, and that's what we expect him to do.

We have to go to Homestead with an aggressive mind-set. We can't go there and be conservative. We have to run very well to get this finished.

I think what all of us are trying to get to is just what's in his heart and what he believes and what kind of conservative he is. If he's a Sandra Day O'Connor conservative, he's going to be accepted by this committee by a strong vote. But if he's got a strong political and ideological agenda, I think he's in for a rough ride.

We took the test results from TRC Inc. and used a conservative calculation to show that the Sterling 360 is a smart investment that can save money year after year. It assumes that a customer drives a pick-up and delivery truck with a dry van box, travels 20,000 miles a year on average, and pays 2.50 per gallon of diesel fuel. Under these common circumstances, that adds up to a savings of 600 a year or more with the Sterling 360 over competitive models. Imagine where you could spend the extra money every year.

In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less

We always lived on John's salary, and whatever I earned was put aside for remodeling or for traveling. That's how we can afford to do this. We've been very conservative, lived very frugally. We were almost self-contained, raising our own fruits and vegetables and rabbits. About the only thing we bought was milk.

We have a conservative religious element in the United States that is opposed to the notion that we are connected to the rest of the natural world, especially apes.

A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested. A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged.

The smarter conservatives, in my view, probably know that a lot of the things they're saying are not true, which only makes them say them with greater certainty. But there's another level of conservative spokesperson who probably believes every word of his or her propaganda and are immune to facts, immune to argument.

A liberal is a conservative who has been arrested.

That's not including the cost of attending events or cost of getting to and from Indianapolis. And it's incredibly conservative. It doesn't take into consideration the premium on hotel rates and the additional fans who came without a ticket.

If everything breaks right, our forecasts could prove to be too conservative.

Obviously were discouraged and distressed that these laws are being passed in conservative states.