Chris Mooney Quotes

Conservatives need to go where the facts, not ideology, take them.

Liberals can understand everything, but people who don’t understand them.

Facts matter, especially when they conflict with dogma and preconceived notions. Pretending otherwise has consequences.

I like to discuss things. I am open: I like to discuss with liberals better than I do with conservatives.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.

I think that liberals need to grow up.

Don't hang out with the conservatives. They're boring. Hang out with the liberals. They're more interesting.

Humans naturally think more highly of themselves and their communities than their evidence can justify, but deny that they are biased in this way. This sincere confidence helps people to convince others to think highly of them, and to convince their group of their strong attachment to it. If you force yourself to face facts squarely you may gain better insight into yourself and human nature, and perhaps even signal a certain rare ability to achieve this result. But you may less convince others of your other abilities, and to convince your group of your loyalty

Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

The two parties which divide the state, the party of Conservatism and that of Innovation, are very old, and have disputed the possession of the world ever since it was made.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence; Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Men have differed in opinion and been divided into parties by these opinions from the first origin of societies, and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time.

As usual, the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

What if you are a conservative in a liberal environment? Then what you are conserving is liberalism.

There are liberals everywhere… They’re hiding in the shadows and they are lurking there and they are around.

Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true

The liberals of both the Democratic and Republican Parties are the instruments of Satan to destroy the former great principles of these two political parties.

There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise, and they are doing everything they can to derail the conservative agenda

All Fundamentalists are conservatives, but not all conservatives are Fundamentalists. The best conservatives can often give lessons to the liberals in true liberality of spirit, but the Fundamentalist program is essentially illiberal and intolerant.

If you want someone to accept new evidence, make sure to present it to them in a context that doesn’t trigger a defensive, emotional reaction.

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.

Today, the culture wars and the constant skirmishes over the size and scope of the welfare state have convinced conservatives that the country’s direst enemies are not “subversive” foreigners, but homegrown liberals.