Margaret Atwood Quotes

I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.

Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.

I have gone from a Barry Goldwater Republican to a New Democrat, but I think my underlying values have remained pretty constant; individual responsibility and community. I do not see those as being mutually inconsistent.

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

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

Very simply, I was the original conservative.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

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.

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

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

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 a registered conservative.

I'm a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

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'm as conservative as they come.

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.

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

We should not just talk about conservative principles, but we should actually advance them.

I think that for social conservatism to make sense as a political world view, it has to have a more capacious understanding of what kind of society it wants than just saying, 'Leave us alone and let us pass laws against abortion.'

I do think it's possible to have a conservative personality.

It's often been said that conservatism is successful because it chimes with these basic human instincts. It's time for us to ask fundamental questions about what the Conservative Party is for, and what it actually believes.

I'm known as a small-c conservative.