Jess Phillips Quotes

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

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

No, I do not identify with the right wing.

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

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'm not a centrist, and there's nothing about me that's centrist. I never have been.

I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.

MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.

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

Liberal and conservative have lost their meaning in America. I represent the distracted center.

I am not a centrist.

I'm the most independent and conservative Democrat in New York State.

I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Am I a Republican? Yes. Am I a Democrat? Yes. Am I a conservative? Yes. Am I a liberal? Yes.

Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we're odd and we're kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.

Let's get the elephant out of the room. I'm a conservative Democrat.

My parents are awesome, but they're pretty left-wing.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

The left hand of the right wing.

A Whig [Liberal] may be a fool, a Tory [Conservative] must be so.

When I am asked whether the division between the left and the right still has any meaning, the first thought that comes to my mind is that the person who asks the question is not on the left.

The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from 'Iolanthe.' It goes, 'Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.' What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

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.