Glenn Beck Quotes

I'm a conservative because I believe we're here on this earth to do a little more than crawl through life, comfortable in the cradle of government excess and oblivious to the duties required to keep this republic standing.

America needs a strong, rational, positive, practical conservative movement. It needs that bulwark against liberal delusion and hubris. It needs a voice that says we are imperfect, that life is complex, that government can create need even as it meets need, that you can't fix everything, and freedom is worth some danger and sorrow.

Conservatism is a hard choice for a society that has become accustomed to big government and big entitlements promoted by liberals.

I stand for limited government, fiscal responsibility, personal freedom, personal responsibility, so the Republican Party will support me.

I realized that conservatism was the philosophy that best suited me, with its emphasis on individual liberty, personal responsibility, and merit.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

Good for you, you have a heart, you can be a liberal. Now, couple your heart with your brain, and you can be a conservative.

We need someone with proven conservative leadership experience, not entitlement, to be able to represent us and lead us.

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.

Our shared conservative values, our belief in the individual is the great hope of our nation.

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.

What is the conservative movement? It's pretty straightforward. We believe that the way prosperity is created is when people have the freedom and the opportunity to pursue their dreams.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law.

I'm a conservative because I believe in peace - real peace, not just the peace of mind. I'm a conservative because we understand that real peace comes from the Marine Corps, not the Peace Corps.

Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of Christian values. It goes hand-in-hand. As far as the Republican Party? I felt connected to it because individual freedom should not be legislated by the federal government.

Personal accountability and responsibility is dying. Long live the Democrat welfare state.

The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.

I'm trying to uphold what was true about conservatism. I consider myself a Reagan conservative.

No matter what the issue is, conservative principles are always better for people than big-government, liberal principles.

I'm a believer in private enterprise, the dignity of work, limited government, and the possibilities of freedom.

Conservatives say human beings are people who are primarily concerned with self-interest, and that's what they should be concerned with - self-interest and individual responsibility. They shouldn't be paying for anybody else's health care or anything else like that. As a result, government is something that should be absolutely minimal. It's not there for your overall protection and empowerment - it's not there to offer protection against disease or natural disasters or bad products or companies who sell you fallacious mortgages and so on.