John Howard Quotes

I'm conservative on some things, and I'm not on others.

You don't fight radical conservatism with not-quite-so radical conservatism.

I'm not a reactionary.

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

I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

Guess what this liberal would be all about? This liberal would be about socializing.

A good conservative is someone with an open mind.

Brattleboro is a very small town, but it's pretty liberal.

Years ago on my radio show, I used to say, 'I'm a conservative, but I'm not in a bad mood about it.' I've always believed that civility in heavy doses is essential in self-government.

I'm conservative on some issues, and I'm progressive on others.

Some writers like to boil down headlines of liberal newspapers into fiction, so they say there shouldn't be communal riots, everybody should love each other, there shouldn't be boundaries or fundamentalism. But I think literature is more than that; these are political views which most of us hold anyway.

I believe in all the qualities of being a liberal. I keep going back to all the great social events in our country's history, starting with the Salem witch trials, where the conservative view was that they're witches and should be burned at the stake, and the liberal view was there's no such thing as witches.

… the Democratic Party in robes.

In every society liberals are not very popular. Liberalism is not a populist movement.

The religious right needs to adapt to the reality of modern pluralism.

A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted — in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and his hands at the behest — at the command — of his head.

I'm a progressive.

We don't give up on our values, but we better be sensitive, too, that there are people with more moderate views and people who may disagree with some parts of the Democratic platform as they are presented.

We liberals do sometimes forsake our vows of compassion for all mankind.

My side, I am a liberal more than a Democrat.

I am a social liberal.

Liberals consider people to be nuisances.

Liberals allow right-wingers on their platforms to have a 'civilized discussion,' but there's no reasoning with racists. I don't want them to have a platform that humanizes them. I want to talk down to them and meet them exactly where they are, with absolutely no respect.

I think if you listen to my album, you could probably gather that I am not the most gung-ho conservative-ideology-leaning person.

I don't try to be politically correct.