John Podhoretz Quotes

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

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

There's the great line: the definition of a liberal is someone who's afraid to take their own side in a fight. And that's my problem with my fellow liberals.

I suspect political fiction is at its best precisely when it doesn't preach, but restricts itself to showing the reader a different way of life or thought, and merely makes it clear that this is an end-point or outcome for some kind of political creed.

America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.

We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives who don't want to change anything.

I do not believe that our place is at the comfortable mid-point between the extremes of left and right.

… the Democratic Party in robes.

Truths! Do you think I could have created a government … with truths? You make history with ambition, not with truths.

I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.

Liberals always blame the other guy.

The personality cult of the ego does not work down a coal mine and it does not work in the Labour party.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

One of the big mysteries for many conservatives for many, many moons - including me - was the existence of liberal Jews who put liberalism before their Judaism.

I think I'm the only senator who does not see a president when I look in the mirror.

There's a lot of people that don't understand liberalism, there are a lot of people that I think, by definition, still need to be informed and educated that it isn't the soft, loving, compassionate stuff that it's portrayed to be. Trump speaks for himself. Who Trump is and what he's doing is not a mystery to anybody. It's the exact opposite of a mystery. It's in your face.

Liberalism is probably the root of most of the problems they face in life, including raising their kids, including educating their kids, practically every walk of life, because everything today's political.

If they [liberals] didn't believe we were mean spirited they couldn't stay liberal. They have to believe they mean better than us, but we don't have to believe that we mean better than them. We have to believe that we do better than them. We measure morality by what happens not what is intended.

In the past, I have made a point of pointing out that Donald Trump is not ideological. Now, to me, that means more than he's not just conservative or liberal. But I guess I'm gonna need to add to that. When I say he's not ideological - and I'll explain that again - he's not a conservative, and he's not a liberal. He knows what both things are. It's just not how he looks at the world, and it's not how he sees people. Now, to some people that's refreshing and it's good. To other people, it's alarming.

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.