Quotes from Jonah Goldberg

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.

If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.

If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?

The main difference between liberals and conservatives is that conservatives are honest about it. We're kind of dorks about it. We are kind of like Dungeons and Dragons geeks.

The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.

I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

But if the choice is a cool president and 8 or 10 percent unemployment in a declining economy and a country that seems to be going in the wrong direction and structural unemployment for young people at 50 percent, I'd rather have a dorky president who fixed those problems.

Every Democrat says he wants to be JFK while insisting that he will do more or less what LBJ did. No Democrat would dream of saying he wanted to emulate Lyndon Johnson, because the myth is what matters most.

To fret about political, social, or economic inequality in a free society is to fret about the problem of freedom itself, for in the presence of freedom there will always be inequality of some kind.

Even if you believe there is no such thing as free will, it is impossible to live any kind of decent life based on that belief. Even if our personal choices are some deep fiction, we still have to convince ourselves to get out of bed in the morning. We are still obligated as a society to judge people as if they make their own choices.

social gospel minister Walter Rauschenbusch proclaimed that if God couldn't be a liberal progressive then we needed a new god entirely.