72 Quotes by Charlie Sykes

Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.

I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes.

White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias.

It has almost become a cliche that we are a polarized country, but the reality runs deeper.

The shock of Trumpism has made me rethink what the conservative movement was about and who our allies were and what our assumptions were.

I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.

After 2008, I told people that conservatives were going to be invisible for a while. But, with time, our ideas would be back.

If a university announced that henceforth, it would be offering a three-year bachelor's degree, in one stroke it would cut the cost of a college education and provide a distinctive way of competing for students - as well as put the institution on the cutting edge of reform.

Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism - a much darker view, I think, of the world.