Joseph P. Kennedy Quotes

In actual fact, I have always been a conservative cross, borne sadly by liberal friends.

The most biased people are the Democrats.

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

Men have differed in opinion and been divided into parties by these opinions from the first origin of societies, and in all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak. The same political parties which now agitate the U.S. have existed through all time.

I was never a Democrat but there are some Republicans who think I ought to be.

There's no such thing as a moderate. A moderate is just a liberal disguise, and they are doing everything they can to derail the conservative agenda

When I am asked whether the division between the left and the right still has any meaning, the first thought that comes to my mind is that the person who asks the question is not on the left.

I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals.

I can't go out with a Republican.

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

I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word!

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

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

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

I consider myself a right-winger and Gray was certainly one.

Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like them or the opposite.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

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

Conservative's the last thing I am.

If I were a liberal Democrat, people would say I'm the super genius of all time. The super genius of all time. If you're a conservative Republican, you've got to fight for your life. It's really an amazing thing.

I'm not a shill for the Democratic Party.

Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.

Don't hang out with the conservatives. They're boring. Hang out with the liberals. They're more interesting.

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

You know that no son of mine could be a goddamn liberal.