Quotes About Liberals

If America could get a timeout on endless immigration from the Third World, we'd have a chance to reform ourselves and drain these deep sewers of depravity, racism, and xenophobia that liberals keep finding around every corner. They'll be happier. We'll be happier. After a half century of taking in the hardest cases in the world, America needs a little "me time.

You remember Vietnam veterans being spat upon, incidents that were called an "urban myth" by liberals, until Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene asked in his newspaper column if any Vietnam veterans were personally spat upon when they returned to the United States. He received more than a thousand replies, sixty of which are included in his book Homecoming.51

Liberals defend criminal mobs to boost their own power and prestige. In a world of courts and rules, everyone is equal before the law. That's no good. Liberals need to be above the rest of society in order to impose the Rousseauian "general will" on us.

Politics for liberals is: Our mass against their mass. Except conservatives don't have a mass; liberals do. (But enough about Michael Moore.) This

But as Johnson's popularity nosedived, liberals just kept patting themselves on the back and saying it was because he was pushing desegregation. Except he wasn't. It took the Nixon White House to get the schools desegregated. In

Liberals hate the idea of a revolution by gentlemen, which is why they celebrate hairy, foul-smelling revolutionaries like Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and Susan Sarandon.

Because they assume that people everywhere are animated by the same desires and fears, many Western liberals now blame their own governments for the excesses of Muslim terrorists.

Yes, and the irony is that these liberals don't see that they've abandoned women, gays, freethinkers, public intellectuals, and other powerless people in the Muslim world to a cauldron of violence and intolerance. Rather than support the rights of women and girls to not live as slaves, for instance, Western liberals support the right of theocrats to treat their wives and daughters however they want—and to be spared offensive cartoons in the meantime.

that people in general had fresher minds and were more open to serious topics at the beginning of the day. "Most people are liberals when they drink their morning coffee and conservatives after a hard day's work,

Even those modern secularists and liberals who hate the metaphysics illustrated by Plato's allegory of the cave thrill to the idea that the common man is in the grip of illusion and ought to be ruled by philosopher-kings, even if their idea of a philosopher-king would have filled Plato with abject horror.

And just as sincerely, this is a book for open-minded liberals who understand that our country would benefit from new passion and new ideas in the fight against poverty.

Liberals are more likely to see people as victims of circumstance and oppression, and doubt whether individuals can climb without governmental help. My own analysis using 2005 survey data from Syracuse University shows that about 90 percent of conservatives agree that "While people may begin with different opportunities, hard work and perseverance can usually overcome those disadvantages." Liberals — even upper-income liberals — are a third less likely to say this.

Too great a love for the presidency has caused Democrats to neglect state and local politics and to overly prize compromise and a futile quest for bipartisanship. It has made liberals too allergic to federalism and too shy about grassroots politics.

Looking forward, it might prove constructive to examine the true historical record of an issue prior to assuming the worst of anyone's motive and deconstructing and questioning anyone's Democratic bona fides. After all, we liberals got feelings.

I expected a lot of flak over my new book, '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' from, well, liberals. It's not a big shock that the kind of liberals I skewer in the book - the radical, Che Guevara-loving type - have posted scathing reviews at Amazon and written nasty e-mails and voiced opposition to a book they haven't actually read.

Government must become lean and efficient and customer friendly. It must begin to pay its bills. Liberals believe this is radical and cruel. The rest of us think it is common sense.

The ability to choose who governs us, and the freedom to change laws we do not like, were secured for us in the past by radicals and liberals who took power from unaccountable elites and placed it in the hands of the people.

Liberals don't think parents can be left to their own devices when it comes to raising our children.

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others.

Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we're odd and we're kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.

It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.

Liberals measure compassion by how many people are given welfare. Conservatives measure compassion by how many people no longer need it.

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.