“A conservative is a liberal who got mugged the night before”
Frank Rizzo
“A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy”
Benjamin Disraeli
“They [conservatives] thought they were going to get somebody who would just be full-bore, unadulterated, hard-charging conservative. And this group, they are really sore [upset], they feel disillusioned, they feel despondent and some of them are livid. Now the question is, do they get over this or not?”
Charles Cook
“To me, conservation means trying to preserve this open space, to improve on it and conserve what's here by controlling invasive species, repairing the waterways, things like that to keep landscape and habitat healthy.”
Wendy Glenn
“The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.”
Craig Shirley
“It was the intellectual elite of the conservative movement that expressed the most concern, not the religious conservatives or the business conservatives.”
Carl Tobias
“George Bush is a conservative and most conservatives like him and support him. But most conservatives, at one level or another, are troubled by much of what they see going on in our government.”
David Keene