Boy George Quotes

I am goddamned tired of listening to all this babble for reform. America is a hell of a success. Why tinker with it? The country don't need any legislation.

As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.

We believe that human rights always applies to the majority, who should have its rights protected. When people demonstrate and go to the streets, they deprive the majority from earning a living.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

It's very easy for liberals and conservatives to agree upon liberty, but it is harder for them to agree upon equality.

This President [Ronald Reagan] makes us comfortable with our prejudices.

We are now, as we always have been, decidedly and conscientiously attached to the Tory, and which might with more propriety be called the Conservative, party.

Man is by nature a conservative animal and government is his instrument for preventing rapid change.

I used to think that James Kilpatrick and Barry Goldwater were really conservative, but now we’ve got people to the right of them. They want to use government to be punitive.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

Increase in the wealth per capita fosters democracy; but the latter, at least according to what we have been able to observe up to now, entails great destruction of wealth and even eventually dries up the sources of it. Hence it is its own grave-digger, it destroys what gave it birth.

Today, the culture wars and the constant skirmishes over the size and scope of the welfare state have convinced conservatives that the country’s direst enemies are not “subversive” foreigners, but homegrown liberals.

I worry that a democratic transition in this period for a state like the U.a. E. would put, us in the throes of reactionary conservatism, probably for the next 30 or 40 years. I look at what is happening in Egypt and other places, and I wonder, do I need that kind of transition?

When the economy is bad, the party in power is blamed. When the economy is good, people look at other issues.

I am against revolutions. We have had negative experience with coups and rallies in the past. We remember the shooting at the White House in Moscow The new Russian protest is the most beautiful, most peaceful, most intelligent protest in the world—not a single broken window, not a single burned care or victim.

Conservatives want to keep things as they are, while revolutionists turn things upside down.

We are the most conservative revolutionaries that ever put through a successful revolution.

The America I love is slipping away.

The Republican Party has moved substantially to the right of where Reagan was.

Paul Ryan is a solid conservative.

Since the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, Movement Conservatives have tapped into the idea that an activist government redistributed wealth to lazy minorities. But they have also pushed hard on the idea that true Americans are Western individualists.

Republicans are a shrinking minority ruling an increasingly angry majority that not only wants to change the Republican policies that are moving wealth upward, but also threatens to hold Republican leaders accountable to the law.

Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent.

Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy.

My claim has always been that defeatism pervaded the conservative parties in the 1930s and that it was the defining characteristic of Menzies and his first period as prime minister.