George McGovern Quotes

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief.

At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

Conservatives are unashamed by self-interest and feel comfortable exercising power on their own behalf.

All political action aims at either preservation or change.

Conservatives believe that some problems have no solution, that they can only be mitigated at best. Liberals believe that most every problem has a government solution.

You have the socialist parties ruling Denmark putting in conservative policies because the conservatives control the media and the public discourse.

Government should make tough decisions in the larger national interests, even if it upsets the people.

It's often difficult for conservatives to separate overall government intervention from a question as simple as the census.

The central issue of our time - of all times - is the size, power and scope of government.

Most people who call themselves conservatives can't explain the American value system.

The future of the Republican Party and the future of America is based on a values system and the issues that drive those values are on our side.

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.

Obama's personality traits, coupled with his extreme-leftist agenda, make him particularly dangerous to the American ideal and to the preservation of our founding principles, as well as to the liberty and prosperity they guarantee.

Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grave, but to smash the Constitution's restrictions on government power while doing it.

I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.

While I am a Republican, I'm a conservative first and I'm a constitutional conservative, and in Washington some of the Republicans are oftentimes just as much a problem as some of the Democrats, and we need to elect more senators like Senator Rubio and others who will stand proudly as conservatives to do the right thing for our country.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

The role of a conservative is not to pass laws but to repeal them.

Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks.

The Chodorov Principle: For every social problem A caused by government program X, problem A can be solved by abolishing program X.

Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

Republicans will take on people in the interest of power. Democrats will take on power in the interests of people.

The country is carried comfortably down the river, and the function of Government is to occasionally put out an oar to prevent running into the bank.

The Communist Party and the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are the same in some ways ... To stay in power you've got to give people a good life and improve the economy.