David Mamet Quotes

I haven't always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I've never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?

All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us.

So many of the schools are just politically correct mirrors of each other. If you go to this school versus that school, you're just going to get a different version of the same political correctness and liberal indoctrination.

We have what we call 'fake left' politicians, like Ed Miliband and those who went before him.

Conservatives are always looking for converts, whereas liberals are always looking for heretics.

What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest — at the command — of his head.

Today, the culture wars and the constant skirmishes over the size and scope of the welfare state have convinced conservatives that the country’s direst enemies are not “subversive” foreigners, but homegrown liberals.

America today is going to the left and not to the right.

Political parties are no longer ideological. They are social markers and cultural identifies for people who want to see where they belong.

We’ve got the liberal bastards on the run, and we’re going to keep them on the run.

Wisconsin is a very liberal state and a very conservative state. We're the home of the progressive movement. We're the home of the Republican Party.

Traditional Republicanism grew up in the 1850s as opposed to the Democrats, who always saw the world kind of as a 'us vs. them' proposition. That the world was limited; the economy was limited.

I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.

My parents were Democrats, and I was a Democrat. And John Wayne was a Republican.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

Republicans do not believe in identity politics.

I don't know what a conservative is, you know, but I do know what good people are. And that's where I sit with Donald Trump.

The party of Kennedy is also the party of Eastland. The party of Javits is also the party of Goldwater.

In the broader American culture - the mainstream media, the world of the arts and entertainment, the high-tech world, and the entire enterprise of public and private education - conservatism suffers a decided ill repute.

I don't really get into that whole red-blue-conservative-liberal because I can't tell them apart. They all seem inept. So, for me, it's not something I focus on at all. I probably should be more political than I am. I just don't care.

Liberals always cry wolf.

I think liberals would love to see the conservative party be more moderate, more middle of the road. I mean, my gosh, what do you call John McCain? Some would argue, what do you call Mitt Romney?

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

It isn't generally the case that liberals dominate entire hierarchies. That isn't generally how it works, because the hierarchies are usually set up so that conservatives fill up the hierarchies; it's in the nature of hierarchy.