Paul Morrissey Quotes

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'

I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

It was widespread that the politics of Tea Party people would be foreign to Ronald Reagan and they would be seen by him as frivolous and uninformed.

I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.

It is not about Republicanism, it's about conservatism.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

I don't just say I'm conservative. I have boot leather to my gospel.

The conservative principles are applicable to the to the most diverse situations.

A neo conservative is someone who is against communism but will accept big government and socialism.

Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find the concrete reality.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn't be cast aside.

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

The debate in the Republican Party needs to be between libertarians and conservatives.

One of the most important things liberals don't understand about conservatism, obscured by too much lazy talk about conservatism's various 'wings,' is that its tenets form a relatively organic base for its adherents, where 'traditional morality' serves the interests of laissez-faire economics and vice-versa.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

I'm an ultra-conservative.

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

I'm actually quite conservative.

Conservatism is the politics of reality.

The Republican party should have learned its lesson -- that it must be a conservative party.