Jonah Goldberg Quotes

If power made one evil, then God would be the Devil.

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth.

America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!

Today's unions are less Mobbed-up than those of yesteryear to be sure, but they're hardly above tactics that would be considered intimidating and coercive.

I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better, she still considers boys to be made of kryptonite.

Simply because the nanny-state wants to hug you doesn't mean it's not tyrannical if you don't want to be hugged.

John Kerry is a sphincter. Okay, that's a bit juvenile.

One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant.

I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.

Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.

I think what we're seeing on a lot of parts of the right is people bending their positions and their principles on account of the fact that Donald Trump won.

Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don't matter.

Yes, I know liberals are more empirical because Jonathan Chait says they are, but my empirical studies of liberal empiricism keep spitting out contradictory findings.

Keep Hope alive, particularly if Hope is the name of a very cute puppy and not some ill-defined abstraction that is in fact code for big government.

Getting the support of Syria is the moral equivalent of winning the Klan's endorsement - it might be useful but it doesn't necessarily speak well of you.

As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.

If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?

And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.

The white male is the Jew of liberal fascism.

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

There is no - let me repeat - no example in the last quarter-century of a large, complex economy that has been successful with high taxes.

Pragmatism is the disguise progressive and other ideologues do when they want to demonize competing ideologies.

Champions of Liberty get called Fascists by Champions of Statism

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism!

What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation?

Public unions are the country's foremost advocates for increased taxes at all levels of government.

[C]ontemporary liberalism stands on a foundation of assumptions and ideas integral to the larger fascist movement.

Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies.

One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.

Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

The progressive notion of the state as a loving, caring parent is becoming a bipartisan affair.

And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.'.

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

[In] the post-Enlightenment world, science [has] taken the place of magic, miracles, and superstition.

Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.

Americans are very smart about the things they care about, and ignorant about the things they don't.

[A] country without a word to describe its love for what is best within it is a country ill-equipped to defend what is best within it.