JB Carlson Quotes

Noone knows exactly where thought comes from, but it can be said that thought comes from the same place as whatever it is that beats our heart.. it comes from being alive.

Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

The writer is the person who stays in the room.

The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.

I am really only interested in new information, not freelance opinion. I don't really care what you think off the top of your head.

Who laughs less than feminists?

I very much like "Canada, the adults are talking" stance.

I'm just not sure I trust the federal government not to trample on civil liberties.

Canada thinks we're married; we don't know it exists. Every time we tell Canada to knock it off, it just feeds the fire.

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

Christianity isn't dead. It still has the capacity to scare people. It still gives people the creeps, which means there is still some power behind the religion, as sort of watered down as it can be.

I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.

Canadians are so easily wounded.

Canada, by others in the global family, is, for some reason, taken seriously. They have about 30 million people. They have some natural resources.

If you are a [Hillary] Clinton supporter if you have friends who voted for [Donald] Trump it's harder to demonize that person.

There's no suggestion of why people might have voted for [Donald] Trump.

We don't have enough folks who grew up in working class rural communities.

Honestly, a lot of liberals are foot soldiers in the war on Christmas.

Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

I will avoid demonizing people who don't agree with me about this election.

I'm a foot soldier in the war on Christmas. And the war on puppies and sunshine.

To call me a partisan hack is ludicrous. [...] I am the least partisan person I know.

I have never been one to look beyond today.

I'm not for cutting off hands but I'm more for cutting off hands than I am for molesting children, if that's what it takes to stop it. I think that's fair.

I'm in the business of value judgments .

I was very disappointed, very disappointed when President [George W.] Bush proclaimed Kwanzaa as a national holiday. Prior to that, Bill Clinton did the same thing.

Everybody knows that only creeps put cameras in the bathroom.

Every single comedian in Canada is now living in the United States.

Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony?

Canadians are always asking the questions the rest of us are afraid to ask.

I don't notice any sympathy for them in [ Nicholas Kristof] column. If you're writing a column saying the people for Trump are Nazis and Klansman and North Korean dictators.

I don't think that [thew are bigots] of [Donald Trump] supporters. Those supporters are from my hometown - I understand that suffering. I have written about it repeatedly from my hometown.

You cannot compare me to somebody who makes apologies for Hitler. And I don't think Putin is comparable.

I believe my friends and neighbors there are misguided. I think they are not going to get what they hoped for. But they feel betrayed by the Democratic and Republican establishment.

If you look at my columns I precisely said we have to avoid that. That it's important not to stereotype [Donald] Trump voters.

I would encourage people to go to NYTIMES.com and read this column and you can see for yourself.

I'm not vouching for Putin's character, he seems like a shady guy. Hard to see why he's a threat was.

Republicans can't run for office without the support of business.

All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.

Television and the way we watch is going to change dramatically in the next year.

Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?

Bill Clinton is a liar, a perverted kind of a guy anyway, and he is always stroking black folks rather than telling them the truth.

Angelina Jolie seems like she cries a lot, which puts me off.

England, Australia, Israel, a few staunch, important allies internationally. But we have lost a lot of international support.

I think I always stand up for what I believe in.

I also think it's important not to demonize [Donald] Trump voters.

So you [Nicholas Kristof] have got this new column out, 12 steps for people who say are traumatized by the [ Donald Trump] election.

I definitely don't want to make Nicholas Kristof defend your employer, no one should have to do that but a sincere question.