George Saunders Quotes

I'm a right-wing pundit and have been for many years.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

The real boneheads are the libertarians.

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

I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

I'm a conservative kind of person. I don't think rightwing is quite the same thing. But I acknowledge my conservatism of temperament.

I don't believe just because you're a conservative that you're angry.

I honestly don't see how anyone can view the GOP and the Right as anything but evil.

I don't believe in populism.

I am still puzzled why those in the United States who truly believe in liberty should not only have allowed the left to appropriate this almost indispensable term but should even have assisted by beginning to use it themselves as a term of opprobrium. This seems to be particularly regrettable because of the consequent tendency of many true liberals to describe themselves as conservatives.

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

Social conservatism, business conservatism: the one side constitutes the other, like some infernal Mobius strip.

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

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.

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.

I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

You know, conservatism is not a bad thing. It's not a pejorative.

I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.

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

I would describe myself as a 'total conservative, a conscientious one.'