George Carlin Quotes

In many ways, Nixon started the modern notion of 'compassionate conservatism,' which as we all know is neither 'compassionate' nor 'conservative.'

I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?

I heard Nixon speak. He was talking about free enterprise, getting the government off your back, lowering the taxes and strengthening the military. Listening to Nixon speak sounded more like a breath of fresh air. I said to my friend, I said, "What party is he?" My friend said, "He's a Republican." I said, "Then I am a Republican."

I'm a Ronald Reagan conservative, I'm an economic conservative, I'm strong military. But I also voice and speak and work hard on the social issues.

The Left despises Texas, with its stellar record of job growth; Texas, with its strong support for traditional marriage and the sanctity of life; Texas, the root of the conservative tree. Should the Left succeed in its attempt to turn Texas purple, America could turn permanently blue.

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.

I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.

For far too long we've allowed the other side to paint us as racist, as sexist, inhumane war mongers - well, today as a conservative black Republican and former solider, I'm here to set that record straight.

When I retired out of the military, I registered myself as a Republican because my views and perspectives were more in line with that party.

Primaries are a family fight. I'm a pro-free enterprise, pro-Second Amendment, pro-life Republican.

The record shows that there is very good reason to question the compassionate part of compassionate conservatism. It is simply hooey!

Conservatism by its very nature is compassionate.

Tea Party sympathizers are more conservative on abortion policy than typical Republicans.

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.

Compassionate conservative. I don't know what that is, it sounds like a Volvo with a gun rack.

Every candidate is going to come to you and say they are the most conservative person that ever lived.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.

I am for a huge, huge tent that espouses conservative principles.

A lot of the Republican rhetoric better than the Democrats'. But when they're in office, it's pretty much the same thing. It's serving their supporters, it's corporate welfare, it's cronyism which is so destructive, particularly to the disadvantaged.

If babies had guns, they wouldn't be aborted.

In two weeks the sheeplike masses of any country can be worked up by the newspapers into such a state of excited fury that men are prepared to put on uniforms and kill and be killed, for the sake of the sordid ends of a few interested parties. Compulsory military service seems to me the most disgraceful symptom of that deficiency in personal dignity from which civilized mankind is suffering today.

I just have a more holistic sense of what it means to be for life, knowing that life does not just begin at conception and end at birth, and that if I am going to discourage abortion, I had better be ready to adopt some babies and care for some mothers.

In Sarah Palin's new book, she says when she first laid eyes on her future husband, she said out loud, 'Thank you, God,' which is the same thing the Democrats said when they first laid eyes on Sarah Palin.