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Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.

It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

At times, conservatives become defined by their volume rather than by their ideas.

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

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

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

I'm an independent conservative. And what I mean by that - when I think we're right, I'm with us all the way, and I am a conservative. And I think my record reflects that.

It has become more acceptable to describe yourself as a conservative, but not everyone who uses that term about themselves really is truly conservative.

So the majority of Americans are conservatives. They believe in things like the Constitution. I know that's weird to some people but they believe in it.