Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

The Republicans love the truth, but they hate facts.

The label 'liberal' or 'conservative,' any - every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from 'Iolanthe.' It goes, 'Every gal and every boy that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.' What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

If you want to make a Conservative angry, tell him a lie. If you want to make a Liberal angry, tell him the truth.

When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.

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

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

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.

A Whig [Liberal] may be a fool, a Tory [Conservative] must be so.

People of a certain political view tend to read material of only that point of view … except to cast contempt on the other points of view.

Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.

We not only want to believe that our party is superior to the opposing party, but also we want to believe that we are justified in believing this to be true.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

The greatest lie that was ever told is that I'm some sort of rightwinger.

In practice, conservatives are no less inclined than liberals to adopt superior stances or to tell people how to live their lives.

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true; everything that is not puts us in a rage.

Tea-baggers love the truth. They just hate facts.

The only thing dumber than a Democrat or a Republican is when those pricks work together. You see, in our two-party system, the Democrats are the party of no ideas and the Republicans are the party of bad ideas. It usually goes something like this. A Republican will stand up in Congress and say, 'I've got a really bad idea.' And a Democrat will immediately jump to his feet and declare, 'And I can make it sh*ttier.'

Even if people hate my other movies, and hate me, or whatever, I think from this point of view, Postal is the most important movie after September 11. It's not respecting any edge, any border, any nation, any religion - it's an all-type offender. I think that only if everybody gets a little pissed about something then you will start thinking about your situation.

If partisanship makes us abandon intellectual honesty, if we oppose what our opponents say or do simply because they are the ones saying or doing it, we become mere political short-sellers, hoping for bad news because it's good for our ideological investment.

Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence.

The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.