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We are here today because of grass-roots conservatives all over the place. That's the way the democratic process is supposed to work. It's not supposed to be a bunch of guys in a smoky room in Austin picking the next Senator.
Ted Cruz
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United States Senator
Austin
Bunch
Democratic
Democratic Process
Next
Process
Conservatives
Senator
Guys
Room
Picking
Smoky
Supposed
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Let's leave behind the predictable and stale debate between liberals and conservatives. Let's take the resources that we have, and prioritize, and manage, and focus our energy on just doing things that count - on real results.
Phil Bredesen
/
Former Governor Of Tennessee
Debate
Energy
Focus
Manage
Predictable
Prioritize
Real
Resources
Stale
Behind
Between
Conservatives
Count
Leave
Liberals
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The political Right is particularly vehement when it comes to compromise. Conservatives are now strongly swayed by the Tea Party movement, whose clarion call is a refusal to compromise regardless of the practical consequences.
Deborah Tannen
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Professor
Compromise
Refusal
Tea Party
Tea Party Movement
Vehement
Consequences
Conservatives
Practical
Regardless
Strongly
Swayed
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The criterion for racism is either objective or it's meaningless: If liberals get to decide for themselves who is or isn't a racist according to their political lights, conservatives will be within their rights to ignore them.
Bret Stephens
/
Journalist
Meaningless
Racism
According
Conservatives
Criterion
Ignore
Liberals
Lights
Objective
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Labour must evince a positive vision for the future of our country outside the E.U. One that is consistent with the leave voters' objectives, without sacrificing our rights and protections, as the Conservatives threaten to do.
Barry Gardiner
/
Objectives
Voters
Positive Future Vision
Conservatives
Sacrificing
Threaten
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In the 1980s and 1990s, anglophone conservatives were motivated by ideas so powerful that they spread from the United States and Britain to the rest of the world: faith in democracy, faith in free markets, faith in free trade.
Anne Applebaum
/
Journalist
Spread
Conservatives
Free Markets
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We believe that a civilised society can be measured by the way in which it treats its most vulnerable members and that being impatient about poverty is therefore simply the default position for modern progressive Conservatives.
Grant Shapps
/
Civilised
Default
Treats
Vulnerable
Conservatives
Measured
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I have been going into the underserved neighborhoods and talking to people and letting them know that the conservative message does work. Conservatives need to realize that you actually have to go in there and ask for the vote.
Darryl Glenn
/
Work People Know
Conservatives
Letting
Underserved
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The sanctity of private property is so fundamental a part of the American settlement that the country's conservatives look with suspicion on any policy that seems to prevent people from doing what they will with what is theirs.
Roger Scruton
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Philosopher
Private Property
Sanctity
Settlement
Suspicion
Look People Will
Conservatives
Look Country People
Prevent
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It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.
Jordan Peterson
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Psychologist
Works
Case
Conservatives
Dominate
Entire
Fill
Generally
Hierarchies
Liberals
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When we talk about more access to birth control, a lot of times that means more funding for Planned Parenthood, and we know that's a touchy subject, so I certainly see that perspective and agree with a lot of conservatives on it.
Tomi Lahren
/
Birth
Birth Control
Funding
Parenthood
Planned Parenthood
Touchy
Conservatives
Planned
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Do you want to know what scares the Washington cartel? Actually, not remotely. I don't scare them in the tiniest bit. What scares them is you. What scares them is that old Reagan coalition is coming back together, of conservatives.
Ted Cruz
/
United States Senator
Scare
Coalition
Coming
Conservatives
Washington
Remotely
Scares
Tiniest
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In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.
Allen West
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Former United States Representative
Adoption
Agency
Charity
Fair Share
Legion
Progressive
Real
Real World
Share
Volunteer
Agencies
Bake
Churches
Conservatives
Fair
Local
Post
Sales
Sends
Sermon
Smug
The Real World
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Conservatives who decried Trump's rise (and those who scoffed at his chances of winning a single primary were legion) are the same 'purist' boxing snobs who could never grasp the popularity - and populist legitimacy - of wrestling.
Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
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Boxing
Legion
Popularity
Populist
Chances
Conservatives
Grasp
Primary
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I believe that the real difference in the American church is not between conservatives and liberals, fundamentalists and charismatics, nor between Republicans and Democrats. The real difference is between the aware and the unaware.
Brennan Manning
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Author
Believe
Church
Differences
Real
Aware
Between
Conservatives
Democrats
Difference
Republicans
Fundamentalists
Believe Church I Believe
Liberals
Nor
Real Difference
Republicans And Democrats
Unaware
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What mattered about Alan Kurdi's photograph was that it made Canadians very angry, and the Conservatives, Liberals and New Democrats ended up competing with each other over which party was offering the most generous refugee policy.
Terry Glavin
/
Angry
Competing
Generous
Offering
Photograph
Refugee
Alan
Canadians
Conservatives
Democrats
Liberals
Mattered
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There is a small group of 'Never Trump' conservatives. But it is a small group, and I've actually been surprised that there are not more of us. There's enough of us for a dinner party, not a political party. I wish there were more.
Max Boot
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Author
Dinner Party
Conservatives
Political Party
Small Group
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What I think is at stake in 2012, is whether the five or six strong conservatives elected to the Senate in 2010 become 10 or 12. And if that happens, it will fundamentally shift the character of the Senate. It will shift the balance.
Ted Cruz
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United States Senator
Balance
Character
Senate
Six
Strong
Thinking
Conservatives
Elected
Fundamentally
Shift
Stake
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Like most conservatives, my path was a bit meandering. I grew up around people who mostly held conservative or libertarian views. The liberals I knew were fairly quiet about it, or at least I don't remember it being very heavy-handed.
Dana Perino
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Former White House Press Secretary
Quiet
Views
Fairly
Conservatives
Heavy-Handed
Liberals
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Most evangelical Christian conservatives I know would at least be uneasy about the prospect of the government picking up the slack of caring for the poor due to Christians' abdication of their role in society as dictated by Scripture.
Dana Loesch
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Caring
Scripture
Uneasy
Christians
Conservatives
Due
Dictated
Picking
Prospect
Slack
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There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.
Lamar Alexander
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United States Senator
Nation Building
Parameters
Wonder
Conservatives
Wars
Engage
Republicans
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For decades, the liberal media eviscerated the Religious Right and other conservatives for their own attacks against liberal social causes. Over time, the media labeled anyone who didn't agree with the Left's world view as intolerant.
Richard Grenell
/
Causes
Decades
World View
Time World View
Attacks
Conservatives
Intolerant
Labeled
Liberal
Religious Right
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We have plenty of examples from twentieth-century history where, out of fear of liberalism or Communism, religious conservatives made alliances with secular populists and nationalists, and it ended up going pretty badly for everybody.
Ross Douthat
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Author
Communism
Secular
Alliance
Badly
Conservatives
Examples
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Conservatives should insist that defense spending be examined with the same seriousness that we demand in examining the books of those government agencies that spend taxpayer money in the name of welfare, the environment, or education.
Grover Norquist
/
Defense
Demand
Government Agencies
Seriousness
Spending
Welfare
Agencies
Conservatives
Examined
Insist
Taxpayer
Taxpayer Money
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Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.
Clarence Thomas
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Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
Break Up
Smile
Administration
Black
Conservative
Necks
Organization
Welcome
Blacks
Conservatives
Heading
Labeled
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Many conservatives were openly angry with the Bush administration over enormous government spending and the chaos in Iraq. I don't see as much independent thinking on the left, where President Obama is rarely criticized by his acolytes.
Bill O'reilly
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Host
Government
Administration
Angry
Chaos
Enormous
Government Spending
Independent
President
President Obama
Spending
Thinking
Obama
Bush
Bush Administration
Conservatives
Criticized
Openly
Rarely
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I think the media has portrayed conservatives as these cold, heartless people who want poor people to die and let half the population starve and all this. They've done that so effectively because they've owned the narrative for so long.
Dave Rubin
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Cold
Half
Heartless
Media
Narrative
Poor
Poor People
Population
Die
Conservatives
Effectively
Owned
Starve
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Technology not only allows grassroots conservatives like Palin to get their message across without the mainstream media's filter and become a 'force multiplier,' it also helps them topple candidates financially backed by the establishment.
Steve Bannon
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Candidates
Grassroots
Mainstream
Palin
Backed
Conservatives
Filter
Financially
Topple
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Scott Brown is a superstar. Scott Brown won a race that nobody expected Republicans to even be competitive in, and he was able to do it at a time when nothing else going on, so he captured the attention of conservatives across the country.
Carl Forti
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Captured
Superstar
Competitive
Conservatives
Republicans
Scott
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Obviously, the issue for the Left isn't aging white males; it is conservatives, whether they are young or old, white or nonwhite, male or female. If female aborigines were conservative, the Left would have a problem with female aborigines.
Dennis Prager
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Radio Host
Aging
Conservative
Female
Issues
Left
Males
Problem
White
Young
Male
Conservatives
Old
Issue
Obviously
Whether
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True conservatives fear anything that is at odds with the status quo, even to the extent of being unable to recognise when the status quo represents injustice. And reactionary conservatives actually want to tear down the gains of the past.
Anthony Albanese
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Deputy Prime Minister Of Australia
Gains
Injustice
Odds
Recognise
Status Quo
Conservatives
Extent
Quo
Reactionary
Status
Tear
Unable
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Heritage Action is a self-interested fundraising organization led by a former Giuliani staffer who is not taking counsel from real conservatives... It is a worthless organization to the conservative movement. I'll be the first to say that.
Geoff Davis
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Former U.s. Representative
Former
Fundraising
Heritage
Organization
Real
Worthless
Be The First
Conservatives
Counsel
Led
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The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.
Michael Kinsley
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Journalist
Medical
Commerce
Court
Interstate
Judging
Law
Logic
Marijuana
Thanks
Throwing
Wholesale
Affect
Clause
Conservatives
Far-Fetched
Grounds
Judges
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I am not a post-liberal and I do not think that such a return to full 19th-century anticlericalism inevitable or even likely - which is one reason among many that I doubt the bargain many religious conservatives have made with Donald Trump.
Ross Douthat
/
Author
Inevitable
Bargain
Conservatives
Donald Trump
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Southern conservatives care about government's moral stance but don't mind when it spends freely on behalf of their constituents. Western conservatives, by contrast, are soft-libertarians who want government out of people's way on principle.
Jacob Weisberg
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Journalist
Behalf
Contrast
Stance
Conservatives
Freely
Principle
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I had to learn early on that where conservatives are concerned, the truth about them is the last thing anybody wants to report. It's the lies and distortions, the mischaracterizations, the character assassinations, that people want to report.
Rush Limbaugh
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Talk Show Host
Character
Concerned
Lying
People
Report
Conservatives
Lies
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In a hundred years, Christianity will have mutated into something utterly unpredictable which, nevertheless, we'd recognize immediately. And same-sex marriage will be one of the fine old God-given traditions that conservatives leap to defend.
Francis Spufford
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Author
Marriage
Christianity
Fine
Leap
Nevertheless
Unpredictable
Conservatives
Defend
God-Given
Hundred Years
Immediately
Recognize
Same-Sex
Same-Sex Marriage
Traditions
Utterly
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I think what irritates both conservatives and liberals alike is when news outlets pretend that they don't have an agenda but then clearly do, be it in the editorial decisions they make and the guests they have and the material that they cover.
Shaun King
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Football Player
Guests
News
Outlets
Decisions
Agenda
Alike
Clearly
Conservatives
Cover
Pretend
Editorial
Irritates
Liberals
Material
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Indeed, Miss Manners has come to believe that the basic political division in this country is not between liberals and conservatives but between those who believe that they should have a say in the love lives of strangers and those who do not.
Judith Martin
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Journalist
Believe
Country
Division
Love Life
Manners
Miss
Basic
Conservatives
Indeed
Liberals
Strangers
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There are going to be times when we disagree with our leadership, but ultimately, we've got to work hard to pull our leadership to the right and to move a conservative agenda forward and unite as conservatives if we're going to get things done.
Steve Scalise
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United States Representative
Disagree
Conservatives
Unite
Work Hard
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For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.
Rick Perlstein
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Historian
Core
Principled
Conservatives
Expense
Honoring
Liberals
Outcome
Procedural
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We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives.
Nick Clegg
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Deputy Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Credible
Labour
Needs
Outlook
Outlook On Life
Party
Voters
Conservatives
Fairer
Liberal
Socially
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As the quintessential swing state, Ohio has been on the front lines of battles to restrict access to the vote and make government less transparent. Conservatives know that they can't win without putting a thumb on the scale of electoral outcomes.
Nina Turner
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Ohio State Senator
Access
Lines
Ohio
Outcomes
Quintessential
Transparent
Vote
Scale
Battles
Conservatives
Electoral
Front
Front Lines
Putting
Restrict
Swing
Thumb
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I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three legs to the conservative stool. There are the free-market economics conservatives, the social conservatives, and the national-security conservatives.
John Bolton
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Lawyer
Conservative
Legs
Among
Conservatives
Stool
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Leading up to Election Day 2008, candidate Barack Obama declared, 'We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.' Conservatives heard a menacing threat. For liberals, it was a rallying cry. The battle was on.
Kirsten Powers
/
Pundit
Barack
Battle
Cry
Election
Election Day
Heard
Rallying
Transforming
United States Of America
Obama
Barack Obama
Candidate
Conservatives
Fundamentally
Leading
Liberals
Menacing
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For the conservatives, Lula is seen as someone who constantly seeks demarcation and even rupture. For the Left, however, Lula is always seen as someone who conciliates, as he acknowledges the role of owners in improving the conditions of workers.
Fernando Haddad
/
Acknowledge
Conditions
Improving
Owners
Rupture
Workers
Always Someone Who
Conservatives
However
Seeks
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Conservatives believe in patriotism, but equally in community and the importance of local identity. We believe in devolution. We believe in localism. We believe that decisions should be taken locally wherever is practical; that communities matter.
David Lidington
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Patriotism
Conservatives
Equally
Locally
Practical
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When teachers try to teach, nurses try to nurse, small businesses try to serve their clients and the police try to arrest criminals, there is always a regulator or three breathing down their necks. Conservatives want to make people's lives easier.
John Redwood
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British Politician
Teacher
Breathing
Clients
Criminals
Easier
Necks
Nurse
Police
Teach
Three
Arrest
Businesses
Conservatives
People Always Down
Small
Nurses
Regulator
Serve
Small Businesses
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You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the number one issue is jobs. And they are looking for which candidate can get the economy back on track.
Meg Whitman
/
Business Person
Jobs
California
Stripes
Thinking
Track
Traveled
People Looking Know
Candidate
Conservatives
People Know Looking
Democrats
Republicans
Frankly
Liberals
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Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
J. C. Watts
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Former U.s. Representative
Alarms
Black
Clock
Critics
Flight
Forgotten
Numbers
Alarm
Budget
Conservatives
Washington
Set
Exactly
Number
Federal
Forbid
However
Weekly
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