Sarah Palin Quotes

So why would I want to call myself a conservative after the way them white racist thugs have used that word to hide behind? They call themselves new Republicans.

Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency - that sort of thing.

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

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

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

I'm instinctively a Conservative.

I'm a registered conservative.

I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.

So I'm a pretty conservative fellow, but not conservative enough for the Tea Party.

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

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

I think there's a growing amount of confusion about what conservatism is. And it is time for us to understand that conservatism is not built on personalities. Conservatism is not simply built on how angry you might seem from time to time. Conservatism is built on a set of principles and ideas that our nation desperately needs.

In my estimation, there should always be a mixture of economic liberalism - which means small government, a great emphasis on markets - but also a certain degree of social conservatism, not to favor change unless that change is beneficial. So I describe myself as an economic liberal and a social conservative.

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.

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.

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

I'm an independent conservative. And what I mean by that - when I think we're right, I'm with us all the way, and I am a conservative. And I think my record reflects that.

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

The Republican Party is either going to return to the party of fiscal responsibility and consistent conservative principles as it was under Ronald Reagan, or it will continue down the path of 'sporadic moderation.'

I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.

A Conservative is a fellow who is standing athwart history yelling 'Stop!'

To all of you who are Republicans of long standing, I hope you appreciate that I always tried to stand for conservative values.

It's time for conservative Americans to right the ship again.