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My gut tells me and continues to tell me that the Conservative party is on a road back to government.

The conservative movement is about government playing its important yet limited role, and about not falling into the trap of believing that every problem has an exclusive government answer for it.

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.

Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

Conservatives like to talk about 'the strivers' who share what they like to think of as Conservative values. But as I found in my Blue Collar Tories research in 2012, such people no longer see the party as their natural ally.

We don't believe there is a functional conservative party in this country, and we certainly don't think the Republican Party is that.

There is a new conservative establishment in America, made up of those who claim to be the anti-establishment.