Stockwell Day Quotes

I try to make a dent in people when I can. I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

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

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

I think a lot of things have become associated with the Right. For example, an unapologetic commitment to progress and modernity is now almost always associated with neo-conservatism whereas it traditionally used to be associated with left-wing thinking and moving society forward.

Just as I got older, I think I've become more and more conservative.

Very simply, I was the original conservative.

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.

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

Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

I'm a registered conservative.

I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.

I do believe the Democratic party has moved far to the right. I do believe that the party has a bunch of elephants running around in donkey clothes.

A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before.

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

There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment.

I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.

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.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

Neoconservatism is a blend of realism and idealism. We have the idealism of the liberals but we look at the reality of the world.

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.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

I became a conservative for the first dozen years of my professional life in Berkeley, Calif., and it was a reaction against political correctness, so I get it.