Mike Gallagher Quotes

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

When the Left agitates over government policies, it's considered righteous anger. When the Right - and much of the center - agitate, it's painted as the rantings of the criminally and violently insane.

You could never write for me. You're too liberal. But you're fine for Jack.

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.

I think somebody that got along with the Democrats could change instantaneously. But the level of animosity... You know, in the old days "across the aisle" wasn't the worst thing. People got along. Today, the level of hatred, the level of anger is high.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

I tend to support and get behind issues instead of candidates, because of the whole 'Super Bowl' generalization of our world - You're on this side, I'm on that side; you're a Republican, I'm a Democrat; you're country music, I'm rock music.

Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think.

I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.

You've got the brain-washed, that's the Democrats, and the brain-dead, that's the Republicans!

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door.

'Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it.

The problem with the Tea Party is that it's been used in a way that scares people into supporting an agenda that's counter to their own interests.

The name 'Republican' in some ways has been hijacked by obstructionists.

Young people don't really study the facts; they watch the skewed MSNBC and get a primarily liberal education.

I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.

If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you're a conservative Republican, you've got to fight for your life. It's really an amazing thing.

It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.

In this closely divided nation, it satisfies no practical purpose for the entertainment elite to be identified as so intensely political and utterly one-sided.

You know that no son of mine could be a goddamn liberal.

Hardly a man came out of wartime Washington whose ways of thinking were not profoundly influenced by that environment. The liberal tenets had become a dogma that a man questioned at his peril.

I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party—democratic or totalitarian—through study and comparison of principles.