Tom Wolfe Quotes

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was.

I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

I think Tierney is also more libertarian than he is conservative in the conventional sense.

I don't know how many parts I've lost because a lot of the politics in California are very conservative, and I'm fairly outspoken. I always tried to get as much politics in as I could, because I do believe in class struggle, and I think that's what's left out.

This is just not the Democratic Party we used to know.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

It's interesting that these themes of crime and political corruption are always relevant.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

I think a lot of people get in trouble with the law.

I'm pretty middle-of-the-road. There are some issues I'm more conservative on.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

Crime is the number one problem in Russia.

A Whig [Liberal] may be a fool, a Tory [Conservative] must be so.

The most malign of all these dangers today is disregard and disobedience of law. Crime is increasing. Confidence in rigid and speedy justice is decreasing.