Christopher Lasch Quotes

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.

I used to be a conservative.

I'm severely conservative.

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

Conservatives conserve and that is why they became irrelevant.

I'm as conservative as they come.

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

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

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

In terms of the conservative movement, I do think it would be foolish to deny that Trump has exposed certain aspects of that movement as less healthy than I thought or hoped.

I've had a very long career of being conservative.

Neoconservatism' once had a real meaning - back in the 1970s. But the label has now become meaningless. With many of those who are described as neocons, including me, fleeing the Trumpified right, the term's sell-by date has passed.

Nobody is more conservative in the Congress and the House than Phil Gingrey.

Conservatism, when presented in full strength at the ballot, wins at the ballot.

Well for sure I'm conservative.

Ah yes! Conservatives. Some of the finest minds of the 12th Century.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

I'm not a reactionary.

The Republican party does have a lot of work to do. But changing our principles is not a winning strategy. We need to modernize, not moderate.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

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 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.