Bill Maher Quotes

In reality, anyone can call themselves a conservative. There is no secret handshake or written test to prove your bona fides. But the true conservative reaches outcomes by respecting and heeding to well-developed, sound principles.

The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient institution, the old one.

I am a conservative thinker, well known as such, outspoken as such but reasonable in my view.

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

I think what I'm trying to do, reform-wise, is completely consistent with conservative philosophy. It may not be consistent with some so-called conservatives who live in Washington and make their living like I used to.

We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the sports pages, public schools, college professors and administrators, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Unless liberals specifically seek out Ann Coulter books and columns, which I highly recommend, or tune into Fox News or conservative talk radio, they have no idea what conservatives are thinking.

Bush is no conservative.

I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it.

The whole culture of my background was deeply Conservative.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

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

I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.

I'm a compassionate conservative.

I'm conservative. I was raised conservative, and that's the way I will vote.

I'm as conservative as they come.

I am not a moderate. I am a conservative. I'm a fix-it conservative.

I've always been conservative. I was born that way.

I am conservative by temperament. I disapprove of criminal activity. I am very solidly and markedly on the side of authority. The truth is I would rather err on the side of too much authority than too little.

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

I think I'm probably just an old-fashioned Tory. I don't wake up each morning trying to figure out what kind of Conservative I am; for me it's quite instinctive.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Conservative politics are not an a la carte menu.