Bari Weiss Quotes

… new truths are often struck out by the collision of parties, in the eagerness of controversy, which otherwise would have lain hid, The divine disapprobation of a form of government by kings, I take to be one of this sort of truths.

Politics, by its nature, emits a lot noise.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

Writers should provoke disagreement.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

On any big issue in government there are always going to be disagreements.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time.

Issues are a problem for politicians most of the time; the reason is that somebody won't like what you say when you start talking issues.

Let us not be afraid of debate or discussion—let us encourage it. For if we should ever abandon these basic American traditions in the name of fighting Communism, what would it profit us to win the whole world when we have lost our soul?

In politics, as in every other department of life, the clashing of thought is sometimes a proof of disease, but always a promise of reform.

Limbaugh hosts a radio show. His job is to shock people.

I want to steer the national conversation in the right direction, from my point of view. I want to get under Robert Gibbs' skin and Rahm Emanuel's skin and Barack Obama's skin.

There's one thing my dad taught me: don't talk about politics, because you'll never make anyone happy. Don't even go for it.

If you're going to talk about politics, then there are going to be folks who are with you and folks that are against you.

If you're not ruffling feathers at CPAC, I don't think you're doing a very good job.

We don't dip our toe into religion or politics, because you can't win.

It is unfortunate whenever someone tries to bring politics into sport.

If you don't like being attacked for your point of view, you shouldn't be in politics in the first place.

It's unfiltered conversation and I love it. I also like to argue with children, so it's the perfect platform for me.

I think the museum should be an arena in which ideals can hash it out, fight it out, tooth and nail, for attention.

Do I have opinions that might piss people off? Yes - that's what I'm here for.

There isn't anybody I won't talk to about immigration - at least once.

As your governor, you’re going to be seeing a lot of me on the front page, saying ‘Governor LePage tells Obama to go to hell.’

I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

I'm not afraid to take on somebody or say something that somebody will find offensive because unfortunately in comedy, you can't say anything really good without offending somebody.