Van Jones Quotes

If you're not a liberal at 20, you have no heart, and if you're not a conservative at 40, you have no brain.

And, when it comes to politics, it can be awfully difficult to put your desires aside and to acknowledge that the world is a much messier place, where open-minded people might be conservative and liberals may well be conscientious.

We need to have the mind of a conservative and the heart of a liberal.

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

For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.

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

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

I think that liberals need to grow up.

The American people will always be progressive as well as conservative.

Everybody in Mariposa is neither liberal or conservative or else is both.

On my conservative days I’m a Democrat.

We will have a government where liberals will stay in power until they get radical and conservatives will have the power until they get reactionary.

There are no modern successful societies that do not deal with the issues raised by Populists and Fabianists but also avoid going to one of these extremes. The modern battle for power in democartic socities is between Populism and Fabianism.

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.

If you're a conservative, you think I'm Satan.

Republicans do not believe in identity politics.

Obviously, I'm no fan of the radical left.

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

I'm more of a man than any liberal.

I have issues with liberals, which includes many gay people. I have found some liberal gays to be extremely intolerant of other points of view.

It is not the conservative psyche that needs analysis. Conservatives were right in the Cold War --so right that liberals are pretending they were with us all along -- and they are right about Iraq. It is Leftists who need to account for their consistently disgraceful positions throughout the Cold War and into the War on Terror.

Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.

My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism.

The Eighties proved we don't need liberals.

Conservatism therefore looks upon the enhancement of man's spiritual nature as the primary concern of political philosophy. Liberals, on the other hand,— in the name of a concern for “human beings”— regard the satisfaction of economic wants as the dominant mission of society.