Tina Brown Quotes

Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.

I expected a lot of flak over my new book, '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' from, well, liberals. It's not a big shock that the kind of liberals I skewer in the book - the radical, Che Guevara-loving type - have posted scathing reviews at Amazon and written nasty e-mails and voiced opposition to a book they haven't actually read.

We are affectionate BJP and not fascist as termed by the opposition.

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.

The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.

Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.

Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.

Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

I took a lot of heat from Republicans when I stepped out of John McCain's campaign after the 2008 primaries. I still supported McCain, and voted for him, but I just didn't want to be the tip of the spear attacking Obama.

I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking during a filibuster - a la 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.' Robust debate is necessary in a democratic society. Instead, our discourse has been relegated to media spin by expert entertainers.

I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.

This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.

The attempt to turn a complex problem of the head into a simple moral question for the heart to answer, is of course a necessary part of all political discussion.

I dread the reveries of you philosophic politicians.

The Republican Party was threatening to close down the government and hassling President Obama about his birth certificate when he is trying to get Osama bin Laden.

I'm used to the Right being singled out by the entertainers.

I am basically a supporter of Barack Obama - it is not easy to be a post-partisan president in a hyper-partisan era.

The Conservative Party tries to avoid important but controversial issues of concern to Conservatives and Canadians in general. It is afraid to articulate any coherent philosophy to support its positions.

I haven't done things publicly to hurt conservatives.

Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for first thought.

Reflective thinking is like the crock pot of the mind. It encourages your thoughts to simmer until they're done.

I don't think people are averse to thinking about things in a deep way, but we have limited time and opportunity to think about things in a deep way. I think that's why there is an appetite for non-fiction - it gives people the opportunity to reexamine ordinary experience and be smarter about it.

If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.