Jen Lancaster Quotes

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.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

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.

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

It's funny how you get a bit older and become more accepting of things. When you're in your twenties, you're skeptical of everything. I definitely felt like that.

The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.

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.

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

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.

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

Only two things change when you get older: the energy in your voice and the time of night you feel it's appropriate to call someone. In your 20s, people call at 2 a.m. and yell, 'Are you up?' into the answering machine. Now, someone calls after 8 p.m., and my boyfriend is like, 'Who is that? Who could be calling at this hour?'

I'm as conservative as they come.

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

I'm an ultra-conservative.

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

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

The ur-conservatives of the 1950s - William F. Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and all the rest - were revolting not against a liberal administration but against the moderate conservatism of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The older I get, the less conservative I become.

I generally don't think one's age is all that meaningful - there are 50-year-olds who still act and think like children.

Again and again, people get more conservative as they get older.

I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.

Most people acquire a softer side with age and sometimes with dad that has been quite weird to see.