John G. Schmitz Quotes

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne.

Nothing ever stays in the middle. You always go from one extreme to the other, and politics is certainly that way.

I think the danger with the liberal Left is seeing the Republican Party as a monolith.

Well, the tough thing for them is that the Republican primary is pretty far over to the right, just as the Democratic primary is further over to the left than the average voter in each party.

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.

The neo-cons constitute a radical reactionary fringe of the planning spectrum, but the spectrum is narrow.

I would like to be one of the people responsible for getting Elizabeth Warren out of politics. She's a nightmare. The Left's holding her up as the second coming of Hillary Clinton; Lord knows we don't need the first.

I don't view myself as marching to any right-wing drummer.

You will never satisfy the far extremes on the Left and the Right.

Jeremy Corbin is a little too liberal for me.

The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

Bush is no conservative.

I'm not going to be the rock star of the far right and frankly on the rock star of the far left.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions.

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

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

I am not a centrist.

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

The Democratic party has gone so far to the left that people just can't relate to it anymore and the Republican party is trying to go totally to the right.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.