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“A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.”
Theodore H. White
“Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.”
Daniel P. Moynihan
“White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.”
Jimi Hendrix
“A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy”
Benjamin Disraeli
“If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.”
Laura Schlessinger
“In success, you wouldn't be able to say I'm conservative or liberal. I'm part of the blame-America-last crowd.”
Stephen Colbert
“I never dared be a radical when young, for fear it would make me a conservative when old”
Robert Frost
“Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In central banking as in diplomacy, style, conservative tailoring, and an easy association with the affluent count greatly and results far much less”
John Kenneth Galbraith
“Conservative people tend to see the world in black and white terms, good and evil. Liberals see grays. In any talk format, you have to pound home a strong point of view. If you're not providing controversy and excitement, people won't listen, or watch.”
Bill O'Reilly