210 Quotes by Jonah Goldberg

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

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.

Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them shriek unreasonable things for you. The Republicans need to get back to being the party that elicits unreasonable shrieking from their opponents. Not the other way around.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.