Tanya Metaksa Quotes

I represented everything Democrats loathed.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

In this country there are two parties: the righteous and the fallacious

In truth, the parties of Whig [Liberal] and Tory [Conservative] are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names, or by those of Aristocrats and Democrats, Cote Droite and Cote Gauche, Ultras and Radicals, Serviles, and Liberals.

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

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

The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from 'Iolanthe.' It goes, 'Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.' What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

We are more and more defined not by our friends but our political enemies - collecting them like badges of honor.

Politics is no longer being fought on traditional political lines.

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.

The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.

The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.

When our opponents on the Left have no serious ideas of their own, they resort to emotional appeals that play up Americans' fears about the future.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

There's no such thing as a partisan base.

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

We did not seek ideological confrontation.