[T]he term "compassionate conservatism" suggests that limited-government conservatism - lower taxes, personal responsibility, smaller government, and accountability - is insensitive to the needs of the people. In fact, this sort of conservatism is compassionate because it frees people from strangling government regulations, high taxes, and oppressive bureaucracy; allowing them to develop their full potential.
FESTA, ROBERT, Football Stadiums, Swimming Pools, and the Triumph of the Left, Liberty, April 2001Somehow Liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what Conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good.
MOYNIHAN, DANIEL PATRICK, New York Post, May 14, 1969