Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes

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.

'Business,' properly understood, is so central to every aspect of our civilization that Republicans should proudly announce that they are indeed 'the party of business.'

The Democratic party favors low tariffs and no surplus in the treasury; but when its opponents, in their eagerness to favor the manufacturing interest keep the tariffs so high as to accumulate a surplus in the treasury, our policy is to return the money, as nearly as may be, to the people from whom it ought not to have been taken.

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

I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

I'm a liberal, but I think there's so much that the private sector can do and does do.

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.

Canada was built from its very beginnings on the belief that public leadership in the economy and on social issues would be as effective and cheap as anything done by the private sector.

The great value of the two party system is that after the progressive party has taken a step forward in the face of agonized yells, the conservatives come in and—true to their platform—change nothing at all. Such is the way dangerous innovations turn into glorious traditions.

We're going to have to take the best of the liberal agenda and the best of the conservative agenda and create an American agenda.

If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.

If the Democratic Party is to win in November, it will have to fly with both its wings—the liberal and the conservative.

Regulation of private enterprise and not Government ownership or operation is the course rightly to be pursued in our relation to business.

The private sector can only be a supplement to the state and collective sectors, and it can never predominate.

American ideology is anti government. There is a streak of libertarianism on both conservatives and liberals.

A Supreme Court justice is sometimes a liberal on one issue and a conservative on another.

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.

Conservatism has always been an expression of American business

Conservatives tend to prefer stability even if it leads to inequality, and liberals tend to prefer equality even if it requires change.

Liberals ... enjoy the company of other liberals, just as conservatives enjoy the company of other conservatives.

That the CDU has different political views on the topic of redistribution, on the topic of uniform social standards... than the French have, that is nothing new.

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

How did the progressive Republican Party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Eisenhower become the reactionary party of Ronald Reagan, the tea party and Paul Ryan? There is nothing random about these ideological shifts. They reflect the party’s — and the nation’s — central unresolved problem: the tension between equality of opportunity and protection of private property.

For the left, an obsession with the state. For the right, a worship of the market. But as liberals, we place our faith in people. People with power and opportunity in their hands. Our opponents try to divide us with their outdated labels of left and right. But we are not on the left and we are not on the right. We have our own label: Liberal. We are liberals and we own the freehold to the centre ground of British politics. Our politics is the politics of the radical centre. We are governing from the middle, for the middle.