I'm not a conservative of any kind.
That's what the new definition of racist is: It's a conservative that's winning an argument!
A civil libertarian today in Washington is a conservative whose friends have been indicted.
I don't know that I'm as conservative as portrayed.
Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we're odd and we're kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.
I am a conservative who happens to not be a Republican.
(T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!
There's an assumption if you have any faith you vote this way, you vote that way, or you're this, or you're absolutely a conservative, and those just aren't all true.
I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.
I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.
They [Republicans] say, 'You're too conservative.' Was Thomas Jefferson too conservative? I'm tired of some people calling me wacky.
If we look conservative, it's because the other guys are so far to the left.
It's much more powerful to say I'm working to reduce spending, deal with our nation's deficit, push back on the federal government, and give specifics for that rather than just say, 'I'm a conservative.'
I didn't suddenly become conservative. It was only the label that changed.
...only liberal organizations are clearly designated [in the press] as "nonpatisan, nonprofit." Non-liberal research organizations are always identified as "right-wing" or "conservative."
People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.
Conservative's the last thing I am.
Liberals are liberals, and it's not helpful to them when they are so identified. They go out of their way to avoid being called liberal. They don't like it. They talk about Republican versus Democrat, voter identification, conservative versus liberal is where you need to look.
I am not a moderate. I am a conservative. I'm a fix-it conservative.
I think my identity as a 'conservative' is entirely inherited. People see the name Buckley, and they think 'conservative.'
George W. Bush is conservative but he is not a conservative.
Because I'm criticizing liberalism, people automatically call me a conservative. This is madness! The idea that somehow one cannot critique liberalism from the left, from the left wing of liberalism. I mean, how can people be so stupid?
Even my conservative friends consider me conservative.
In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called "conservative," as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.
