Andy Rooney Quotes

I love it when the left and when the president say, 'Don't try to impose your values on us, you folks who hold your Bibles in your hand and cling to your guns.' They have values too. Our values are based on religion, based on life. Their values are based on a religion of self.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

It's been quite an experience, being conservative and living in the North East.

It has crossed my mind that you cannot be a Christian and a Republican.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal.

I have conservative relatives. I maintain some relationships with some conservatives going back to the 1990s... Not in any meaningful way.

But I'm proud to come from a family of Republicans and, yes, we have some spirited discussions in our family.

I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

I like people. Rightwingers don't. They like business, they don't care about people. I like education, they seem not to care much about it.

If conservatives don't want to be seen as bitter people who cling to their guns and religion and anti-immigrant sentiments, they should stop being bitter and clinging to their guns, religion and anti-immigrant sentiments.

I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

I heard Gillian say, with a laugh, At this point, does anyone expect the liberals not to be total hypocrites? She was oblivious to the possibility that perhaps not everyone present shared her views, and I thought, You're sixteen. How can you already be a Republican?

I'm more of a man than any liberal.

The general difference between conservatives and liberals is that liberals like pretty pictures and conservatives like to build bridges that people can drive across.

I'm not a conservative or a republican but I know that there's conservative republicans who I probably vigorously disagree with but I also am smart enough, or something enough, to understand that they really think that they're right, and they're looking at me like I'm crazy.

When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.

Young people have traditionally skewed left through generation after generation after generation. Exceptions to that, of course. I am one. I never have been a liberal. I rebelled against my parents, but not that way. Never been a liberal. Constitutionally incapable of being a liberal. Who knows why.

How does conservatism find its way into the body politic? I think most people actually live their lives that way, but they have been poisoned into not voting that way because the brand - conservatism brand, Republican brand - has been summarily destroyed over the years.

I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new words to conceal their true beliefs and are in a perpetual state of reinvention, we conservatives are unapologetic about our ideals.

The Republicans didn't want the government to run your life, because Jesus should. That was really part of their thing: less government, more Jesus. Now it's like, how about more government and Jesus?

The reason conservatives cohere and radicals fight: everyone agrees about fears, no one about visions.

Conservatives value economic liberty and moral security, while the liberal values economic security and moral liberty.