Ben Domenech Quotes

I mean, what are they scared of? Who's going to vote for anyone from the Communist Party, for God's sake?

I guess we'd better start getting used to the consequences and permit the American liberals to squeak and squeal us to ultimate defeat.

I'm used to the Right being singled out by the entertainers.

I'm sorry, you leftists: you're not the only people whose motives are pure.

Personally, I find the decisions and actions of my Tory colleagues appalling, but I also know plenty of Labour voters who are less than perfect.

When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.

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

Frankly, most of my friends hold very different political beliefs. It's just a funny thing in this country that supposedly you can't sit down and have dinner and enjoy another person's company if you don't have the same beliefs. It's ridiculous.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

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

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

Once upon a time, I thought that politics was the name we gave to our higher instincts. That was before Margaret Thatcher, who came to power when I was 11 years old.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.

Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

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.

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

You're considered to have a rare kind of social disease if you espouse neo-conservative ideas in Canada.