Robert Reich Quotes

For decades, the liberal media eviscerated the Religious Right and other conservatives for their own attacks against liberal social causes. Over time, the media labeled anyone who didn't agree with the Left's world view as intolerant.

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

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

Conservatives are always looking for converts, whereas liberals are always looking for heretics.

Wisconsin is a very liberal state and a very conservative state. We're the home of the progressive movement. We're the home of the Republican Party.

Conservatives have to be more than just Liberals who are good at math.

I live in a total bubble where I assume everyone is super-liberal and democratic.

I am not a Republican apologist.

(T)he Left has moved so far to the left that this pro-choice, lesbian feminist is now considered a Right-Winger!

I've always believed in challenging Republicans where they think they are strongest.

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

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

You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!

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

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.

Economic libertarians and Christian evangelicals, united by their common enemy, are strange bedfellows in today's Republican party, just as the two Georges - the archconservative Wallace and the uberliberal McGovern - found themselves in the same Democratic Party in 1972.

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary family man, and his policy positions would have made him a conventional liberal Republican not that long ago.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

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.