Klemens von Metternich Quotes

And my principles go right in line with the Tea Party.

There are 100 different doors to come into the conservative movement. You can disagree with 99 of them, as long as you agree on one: more-limited government.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

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

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

I have a lot of conservative views on a lot of things.

I want the American people to understand that conservatism is an ideology of protecting the people and the people's rights.

The only problem with Republican principles is no one's following them.

To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.

My instincts are conservative, but my inclinations are also libertarian.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

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

Republicans are not going to replace left wing social engineering with right wing engineering.

A neo conservative is someone who is against communism but will accept big government and socialism.

Conservatism has always been an expression of American business

I've had a very long career of being conservative.

At its core, conservatism is not an anti-government movement, and it's not a no-government movement.

A good conservative is someone with an open mind.

No matter what the issue is, conservative principles are always better for people than big-government, liberal principles.

Conservatives don't need to look for 'hope' in a person because people are imperfect. Conservatives put their stock in the ideology ushered forth by our Founding Fathers, the ideals that keep us free men.

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

Naturally, I'm conservative; I'm a Republican. I always was.

President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

I am very much a Republican.

I've been a conservative my whole life. There is nothing hard-right or far-right about anything. I just believe in ideas and that ideas matter in history, and that's my background, and that's the way I'd like to be portrayed.