Joe Wilson Quotes

I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.'

I still quite enjoy watching Fox News because I think it makes me think through my arguments and make sure I'm on the right side.

I think people should be consumers of journalism.

And if that's what the American people want, then that's what the policy should be, of course. But the idea that anything in the United States is too sensitive to discuss or too dangerous to discuss is really, I think, absurd.

You can’t start a conversation about public policy by saying it is complex.

Americans are good people, and at times we can be wise. But we're often under-informed by media, misinformed by our government and ill-served by both.

One thing that is for certain is that there are tens of millions of people who are deeply unsatisfied with the way they get their political news.

I like debating policy.

I'm happy to talk to liberal media, and we often have good conversations.

America deserves a real discussion about real policy.

I only know what I read in the papers.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

I'm not always up to date on everything that's going on, but I am somewhat informed. I listen to NPR. And I actually watch Fox News, because I believe, if you just listen to the things that agree with you, you're not really seeing anything else.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.

I have nothing against conservative people putting out conservative commentary or doing conservative broadcasting, or liberal people doing liberal broadcasting, or conservative blogs or liberal blogs.

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government.

I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

Citizens in a democracy need diverse sources of news and information.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

Everybody's saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.

Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option.

But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.