Niall Ferguson Quotes

Conservative's the last thing I am.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we're odd and we're kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.

I'm an independent conservative. And what I mean by that - when I think we're right, I'm with us all the way, and I am a conservative. And I think my record reflects that.

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

I'm a registered conservative.

Actually, I consider myself to be pretty politically conservative.

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

I'm as conservative as they come.

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

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

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

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

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

The silent majority really is a liberal majority, even though the word liberal has taken a real beating over the last 20 years by radical conservatives.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

Of course I'm not a racist, but I'm certainly right wing, there's no question about that.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

Fiscally I'm very conservative... others say that I'm socially moderate.

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

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

It's not like Massachusetts, where they're baptized Democrats.