James Wolcott Quotes

I don't think I suffer from Trump derangement syndrome in a sense that I can separate the man from the White House.

It's awfully hard to get into the head of a liberal. Instead of logic and reason, they are drawn to emotions and feelings.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

I didn't know I was a conservative when it didn't matter to me growing up.

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.

I'm a total Republican, but I've never claimed to be a Christian-right conservative. They're a large but dwindling part of the Party.

I understand why people do vote on the conservative side of the ticket because people have a tendency to go for strong governments when really, from an idealistic point of view, it's a bad thing.

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.

It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.

I think that there is a changing wind. There are black conservatives out there, and their voices need to be heard.

Barry Goldwater made conservatism so unattractive I wouldn't have voted for it myself.

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

It is very difficult to be a Tory intellectual.

Liberalism is a Mental Illness

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.

In terms of the conservative movement, I do think it would be foolish to deny that Trump has exposed certain aspects of that movement as less healthy than I thought or hoped.