Shelby Steele Quotes

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

I think that there's a liberal element out there that finds me not acceptable. They don't like my stance on a lot of issues because I am conservative.

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

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

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to say what they really think.

The left has lost the common touch.

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

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

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

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

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.

The administration still wants to govern from the far-left and that's going to produce kind a partisan result here in the Congress.

You know that no son of mine could be a goddamn liberal.

Men have differed in opinion and been divided into parties by these opinions from the first origin of societies, and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time.

You could never write for me. You're too liberal. But you're fine for Jack.

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

You cannot fight a people who are fighting for an ideology with no ideas of your own.

There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise, and they are doing everything they can to derail the conservative agenda

We will not sit at the same table with the communists. I will never talk to them

When I am asked whether the division between the left and the right still has any meaning, the first thought that comes to my mind is that the person who asks the question is not on the left.

Bigger Than His Party.