Jack Abramoff Quotes

In reality, anyone can call themselves a conservative. There is no secret handshake or written test to prove your bona fides. But the true conservative reaches outcomes by respecting and heeding to well-developed, sound principles.

I'm going to speak my mind. I'm going to defend conservatism as I understand it. I'm going to defend our ideas as the Republican Party.

I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. I don't think the libertarians have it right when it comes to what the Constitution's all about. I don't think they have it right as to what our history is.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

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

I believe that this is the key, the principle itself is the key to conservatism. Because in many ways if you do not have a principled base you do not have policy and if you do not have policy in many ways you do not have an ideology.

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

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

I'm as conservative as they come.

I believe I am more conservative than Bob Dole; I believe I am more committed to fundamentally changing American government than Bob Dole.

I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

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

Conservatism, by all means, if there is anything worth conserving, and everything not worth losing. Revolution, if there is nothing worth conserving, and everything worth gaining. These are the class lines upon which the political battle is being fought, and is bound to be fought

I'm more the conscience of the conservative than I am someone looking for consensus.

As an ideology - and certainly as a political identity - conservatism is less popular than the very principles and values it stands for.

We should not just talk about conservative principles, but we should actually advance them.

I am a Conservative: I'm never going to be anything else.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

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

It's often been said that conservatism is successful because it chimes with these basic human instincts. It's time for us to ask fundamental questions about what the Conservative Party is for, and what it actually believes.

The reason I became a Christian is the same reason I became a conservative: I paid attention.

Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man's spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.