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A Conservative government is necessary. There is no credible alternative.

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.

I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.

The Conservative party is at its strongest when it's not the party that says there is no role for government and the state should just get out of the way. That is not a strand of Conservative thinking that, by itself, is enough.

I'm a political conservative.

I'm a conservative, but with a focus on average people. For instance, I support Social Security and Medicare.

I am conservative, there's no doubt about it. But you can be conservative and still work with people, and that's what my intentions are.

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

The conservative idea is not that government has no role. You might have argued that in the thirties when conservatives opposed the New Deal.