Jonah Goldberg Quotes

'Reform' is pillage and plunder if you're against it, and it's good government if you're for it.

But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual notions constrained and represented the universe within which the discourse took place.

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.

It's not just spending, it's not just taxes, it's not just corruption, it is progressivism, and it is in both parties. It is in the Republicans and the Democrats.

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

Our platform is crafted by Democrats but it is not about partisanship, its about pragmatism.

Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.

I'll work with anyone - and I really do mean that - Democrat, Republican, independent, Libertarian, contrarian, vegetarian.

Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.

…people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things the government does for others as socialism.

I was brought up in a home where the Secretary of State was not the subject of partisan debate.

I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.

I am not as partisan as people think I am.

The greatest compliment is I am accused of being a Dem leftie and a Republican righty. I am a pragmatist. I call it as I see it.

Because a lot of people really associate liberalism and Democrats with tolerance, and I found it to be quite the opposite. They're tolerant as long as you agree with them! I felt like not only was I tolerant, I was curious and open-minded.

People ask me, "Are you right wing or are you left wing?" and I always say, "I'm for the whole bird." A one-winged bird didn't ever get off the ground.

My contact with [Cato] was strange. They're ideologues, like Trotskyites. All questions must be seen and solved within the true faith of libertarianism, the idea of minimal government. And like Trotskyites, the guys from Cato can talk you to death.

The press is hostile to the idea of liberty. Most people in the press are for big government. Most people think that the solution to anything, whether it's health care problems, education, whatever it is - it's got to be more government.

Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.

The more people expect from government, the more biased they become against limiting government power.

When I go in and vote, I vote for the person I think will get the job done.I don't vote right-left.

Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks. The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one's property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of the pillage.

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

The Republicans just want to bankrupt the government. They think that the government should do nothing, except maybe support the military. So terrorism is perfect for them.

I think there is need for economic stimulus... and government can help make that up in a very difficult time.