Adam Hamilton Quotes

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.

I am of tradition, but that doesn't mean I have an old outlook on life.

A good conservative is someone with an open mind.

I shall not grow conservative with age.

I'm not an extremist, you know.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.

People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.

We're not programming to conservatives. We're just not eliminating their point of view.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

I'm fairly conservative on social issues, but not extremely conservative and not reactionary.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations.

Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.

I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.

If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

While splendidly progressive it is at the same time, amply conservative and sound.

I will adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

The best position the government could assume would be that of moderation between opposite extremes of Ultra-Toryism and Radicalism