Jim Wallis Quotes

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I don’t think America really has a left wing. The American left wing would fit very comfortably in the center or center right of most European political spectrums.

I've always been very suspicious of the left-right dimension in politics.

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

Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

A moment's reflection shows that Liberalism is entirely negative. It is not a formative force, but always and only a disintegrating force.

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.

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

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant, and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

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.

There were more moderate Republicans in those days than there are today.

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people and wish to draw all powers from them into the hands of the higher classes. 2. Those who identify themselves with the people, have confidence in them.... In every country these two parties exist.... Call them, therefore, liberals and serviles, Jacobins and Ultras, Whigs and Tories, republicans and federalists, aristocrats and democrats, or by whatever name you please, they are the same party still and pursue the same object.

Our friends on the left never met an anti-Communist they liked.

In truth, the parties of Whig [Liberal] and Tory [Conservative] are those of nature. They exist in all countries, whether called by these names, or by those of Aristocrats and Democrats, Cote Droite and Cote Gauche, Ultras and Radicals, Serviles, and Liberals.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

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

The current attitude is pretty much the attitude we had in the CIA during the 1950s. When we analysed the operational climate and all the political forces in any given country, we had our friends and we had our enemies. There was no one in between. The friends were centre and Right wing social democrats, conservatives, liberals, in some cases all the way over to neo-fascists. The enemies were Left wing social democrats, socialists, Communists, all the way to those advocating armed struggle.

America today is going to the left and not to the right.