Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
Conservatives really don't believe in politics as the primary instrument of getting along in life and therefore don't tend to put their energy into it a way people left of center do.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
I think politics is a reason why a lot of stuff doesn't get done. There's a lot of favors, and a lot of people are held back by their intentions of being re-elected or the things that they owe their party or constituents.
Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Politics is a conversation between the contestant and the voter.
I don't really think it's appropriate for me to be picking and choosing in the primaries. It's pretty dumb politics for a Republican to choose between Republicans in a contested primary because obviously you're going to be offending some people.
I was never in politics before I contested the Lok Sabha by-elections after my father's death.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.
