Jacob Weisberg Quotes

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

People are beginning to doubt the moral certitude of people on the right, especially the far right.

I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

Modern Americans suffer from a fear of judging. Passing judgment on the behavior of fellow human beings is considered an act of medieval, undemocratic intolerance.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant, and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

Tory supporters are not spontaneously ashamed; they have been made to feel ashamed. British leftists fiercely believe they are right - in the sense of correct but also in the sense of just. Conservatives likewise believe they are right-as-in-correct. Yet Tories are less confident about whether their politics are right-as-in-just.

Maybe some people are attracted to the alt-right that are homophobes, right? But that's just like, there are certain elements of the progressive left and the hard left that attract certain element.

We all know liberals and Democrats who look down on certain people, and there is such a thing as P.C.

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

There's a real sense - that we have to get past on the left - that every person who voted for Trump is evil.

As a university student and activist, I was attacked from all quarters from the far right to the far left.

Few Conservatives MPs have taken any pleasure from the witch-hunt against moderate Labour MPs by the hard-Left Momentum group.

Neither this nation nor this party can afford a candidate so captive to the demands of the intolerant right that we end up re-electing a president of the incompetent left.

I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

I am not a centrist.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.