Joe Scarborough Quotes

I tend to personally judge issue by issue rather than sort of endorsing this football-team mentality that we fall into in this country, where it's all about the team.

Just because everybody else does something isn't a good enough reason to do anything.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

I am led by what I find to be true, not what I find to be popular.

Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. 'I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves,' he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one.

Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view.

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion.

Primarily affecting low-information voters and members of the mainstream media, Obama Worship Syndrome attributes impossible capabilities to Obama's political opponents, finds excuses for every Obama failure in everyone around him and praises the president as the finest politician - nay, human being - of our time.

Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

Ripping on Republicans is not that fun for us only because everyone else does it.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

It's always a good idea to let the audience make up their own minds.

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Democratic politicians have disliked things I've written, Republican politicians... if they all love you, you might as well be driving a Good Humor truck.

... in so many Muslim communities now, saving face trumps critical thinking and truth-telling. This is why reform from within Islam is so difficult.

A thinking man can never be a party man.

We shall seek first to tell the truth rather than to study the subtle art of adjusting it to the circumstances of time and person.

Politicization - the shading of analysis to fit prevailing policy or politics - is the harshest criticism one can make of an intelligence organization. It strikes beyond questions of competence to the fundamental ethic of the enterprise, which is, or should be, truth telling.

Like 90 percent of Ivy League professors, Hollywood celebrities, and late-night TV hosts, the media are also all in for Obama's 'transformative change' and 'social justice.' They've never met a race card slander they didn't like.

You won't get a rational assessment of a political party from a member, and you won't get a reasoned account of the joys of being 'linked' from somebody who's already 'in.'

Whether you are a Democrat, Republican, or Independent, facts matter.

Just because I support somebody doesn't necessarily mean I'll agree with them always. If they do not do something that's correct, I have the right to make comment.