“I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise ...” — Laurie Simmons Quote

“I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.”

“I was always very proud of myself that I could wrest emotion from a doll or a puppet. It never occurred to me that I could find real emotion in a person.”

“My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say 'housewife'? A home engineer.”

“2016 is going to be a fight. A fight between conservatism and a Democrat Party that is undermining the very character of our nation.”

“Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.”

“Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.”