Michael Kinsley Quotes
Conservatives are always looking for converts, whereas liberals are always looking for heretics.
Michael Kinsley, Journalist, 1990
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Lecture, FDR Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY, June 24, 2006
Kennedy was dining with Time Magazine publisher Henry Luce soliciting support for JFK's presidential candidacy. Luce observed that JFK to obtain the Democratic nomination would have left-of-center domestic policies. Luce was right and the father, wrong.
Over time, this has been a good description of the difference between the Democratic and Republican parties.
Michael Kinsley is an American political journalist and commentator. Primarily active in print media as both a writer and editor, he also became known to television audiences as a co-host on Crossfire.