Fareed Zakaria Quotes

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

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

I am a conservative and proud of it.

I'm as conservative as they come.

I've always been conservative. I was born that way.

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

No political cliche can stand up to reality.

The Republican Party I grew up in was a Republican Party of family unity.

I'm not sure what a conservative is. I don't know whether a conservative is a guy that goes to bed too early or maybe doesn't sleep long enough or just what the hell he might be. I don't know. Maybe he's a guy that - you know, he just wants to be real quiet.

As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.

I'm known as a small-c conservative.

I put my conservatism up against anyone. I'm a pretty staunch conservative, with pretty rabid ideas about conservative values... Questioning my conservatism doesn't seem like a particularly interesting project or exercise.

I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.

Actually, I'm a Republican.

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.

Intellectually I'm probably a Republican.

I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Traditional values is the last trump card the Republican party possesses.

I am a conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a radical to remove all that is bad.

I’m extremely conservative but I’m not mad at anybody about it.

I am a conservative thinker, well known as such, outspoken as such but reasonable in my view.