(1237 quotes found)
“A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish'”
Garrison Keillor
“The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.”
Al Franken
“It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.”
Robert Anton Wilson
“No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home or in the office”
Gloria Steinem
“The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes”
Salman Rushdie
“Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms”
“In choosing a president, we really don't choose a Republican or Democrat, a conservative or liberal. We choose a leader.”
Rudolph W. Giuliani
“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving”
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“The number one problem in our world is alienation, rich versus poor, black versus white, labor versus management, conservative versus liberal, East versus West . . . But Christ came to bring about reconciliation and peace.”
Billy Graham
“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”
Hannah Arendt