Bari Weiss Quotes

In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion's plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior.

Charles and David Koch, two billionaire brothers, have been funding the infrastructure behind the Republican Party's right-ward shift since at least 1980.

It is hard to argue that the conservative movement is not having success.

Many on the professional Right owe their livelihoods to a large and growing network of nonprofit donor-funded groups and for-profit consulting and direct marketing companies hired by those groups.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

But I came from a conservative Republican background.

I'm a registered conservative.

One thing Republican leaders, regardless of whether they love us or they hate us, have got to understand is there's no way in hell there will ever be another Republican president without the active engagement of the Tea Party masses and support of the Tea Party masses.

The Heritage Foundation is the premier think tank, research organization. The premier idea group for the conservative movement.

The Right likes to think that intellectuals and academics like Allan Bloom and Dinesh D'Souza spurred the explosive growth of movement conservatism in the 1980s and 1990s, when it was actually mostly Rush Limbaugh.

I do not think that the social conservative movement have the ability to elect a President but they have the ability to block.

You ought to spread campaign contributions around so that you're not beholden to any one contributing group.

Members of Congress like us for our information, but they love us for our money.

I used to think that James Kilpatrick and Barry Goldwater were really conservative, but now we’ve got people to the right of them. They want to use government to be punitive.

Money is the mother's milk of politics

It's not a vast right-wing conspiracy. It's a right-wing conglomerate. It's more sophisticated, it's well-financed, it's well known.

We say Paul Ryan was grown in a petri dish at the Heritage Foundation.

Most of my promos are straight out of Pat Buchanan's run for election.

The new conservative movement has to take on Trump's sense of boldness.

There are people who are genuinely upset in the Tea Party. I understand that. But that movement was funded with seed money from right-wing billionaires, the Koch brothers, and promoted on Fox News, and turned into a stocking horse for the right-wing agenda that a lot of people have been trying to push on the country for a long time.

I think essentially corrupting institutions in Washington are turning conservatism into something that is really very creepy, but also emotionally and psychically powerful for people.

The left understands the media. The left wields it, and the right sits on the sidelines and complains.

Look, I'm a conservative, I'm a very conservative guy, and - and the Trump campaign is making your job over at NBC really, really, really easy in terms of going after conservatives and Republicans if he's the standard bearer for conservatism.

The truth of the matter is President Trump brought together the Republican Party and the conservative movement.

Paul Ryan, he is the real evil genius of the Republican party. He with his little hateful widow's peak and his smirky, snarly, simpering non-entity self, that's who I detest. Trump's just a moron, but Ryan is ugly and evil.