Shelby Steele Quotes

Is it that you hate this president or that you hate America?

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

We must resist the temptation of once again turning America into the traditional bogeyman of the left.

One tell-tale sign of a Wingnut: they always confuse partisanship with patriotism.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

Anti-Americanism is a form of Fascism.

When a president, as Trump does, demonises opponents as an un-American mob trying to destroy the country, it is not a lunatic who tries to harm them, it is a patriot.

That is when the Left is going to love America - when it is not America anymore.

I would like to be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics. She's a nightmare. The Left's holding her up as the second coming of Hillary Clinton; Lord knows we don't need the first.

Anti-Americanism is a pure totalitarian concept. The very notion is idiotic.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

The Right doesn't usually threaten to leave the country. When the Right feels threatened, it just declares it is going to invent a time machine to take the country back so that America can be 'great again.'

Stop seeing socialists and anti-Americans as Democrats. When a Michael Moore compares beheaders to our own Minutemen and laments that too many Democrats were in the World Trade Center, he deserves no platform alongside Wesley Clark or a seat next to Jimmy Carter or praise for his pseudo-dramas from high Democrats.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

I'm surprised that we've gotten to a point where we don't put our country first and put our party first.

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.

Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.

I'm a little bit to the left of things anyway.

I wish the American media would take a great look at the views of the people in Congress and find out, are they pro-America or anti-America? I think people would be - would love to see an expose like that.

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

I'm much more concerned about America than the Democratic Party.

Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.

And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.