David Shuster Quotes

We are becoming too much of a gaff-centric political culture.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

I don't believe Rush Limbaugh has a racist bone in his body.

I'm not like Ann Coulter.

Reagan is the subject of ongoing political debate, and a lot of liberals don't want to take Reagan any more seriously than they did when he was president. I understand why they don't, but they should.

A liberal Republican is a contradiction in terms ... a moderate Republican is a liberal who doesn't like to call himself a liberal.

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

A government of statesmen or of clerks? Of Humbug or of Humdrum?

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that have gone by, than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide.

American political life has reached the stage where a vocal and powerful group uses "liberal" as a term of contempt.... Never before in our history has this been true. Liberals and conservatives have disagreed and, on occasion, have stoutly fought each other; but not in the lifelong recollection of the speaker has any similar attempt been made to convert an honorable word for a socially useful attitude into a sling of mud to be thrown at a political opponent.

I have been amazed to see how unrealistic are the bases for political opinion in general. Only rarely have I found a person who has chosen any particular political party—democratic or totalitarian—through study and comparison of principles.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.

Liberals and the Democratic Party are demonic.

… when the one side says black and the other white, when the opposite political characters are treated by their respective antagonists as rogues, fools, blockheads, wretches, and all the other names in which the English political dictionary is so very rich, one stands like the ass, between two bundles of hay, considerably embarrassed which ought to be chosen....

If you call anything “big government”, Americans will be against it reflexively.

Anybody who is against that obviously must be a communist.

We’ve got the liberal bastards on the run, and we’re going to keep them on the run.

If hyperbolic political speech were outlawed, there’d be silence in America.

I wouldn't call it a Breitbart audience. I would call it America.

All I do is convert liberals to conservatism. That's what I do, and that's why they don't like me.

Politics boils down to the stories we tell ourselves. And unfortunately, we tell ourselves different stories.

At times, conservatives become defined by their volume rather than by their ideas.

When liberals dismiss all Trump supporters as racists, this only fuels their anger.

If Romney would go ideological in explaining Obama, it would help. We gotta stop the, 'He's a nice guy' stuff. Nice guys don't do what Obama is doing. Nice guys don't say and do and act the way Obama is saying, doing, and acting.

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.