Johnny Ramone Quotes

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

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.

I used to be a conservative.

I am such a political person.

I've been a conservative in West Virginia before that was popular. I've seen a change in West Virginia. Not a change in John Raese, but a change in West Virginia and a change in America.

I was a right winger into the 70's but I left the right in late 70's.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

I was a Great Society liberal on domestic issues. People ask me, 'How do you go from Walter Mondale to Fox News?' The answer is, 'I was young once.' End of answer.

A lot of my traditional audience does not appreciate my foray into politics.

Again and again, people get more conservative as they get older.

I've always been political.

A lot of people are very political when they are young, and then they outgrow it.

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

Everyone is a liberal until they have something to conserve. Then they become a conservative.

I was raised a right-wing Republican and was about eighteen when I had to admit to myself that in regards to the great domestic crucible of the day, civil rights and racial justice, conservatives were on the wrong side historically and morally, and that it took too much intellectual and psychological jujitsu to pretend otherwise. I didn't want to pretend anymore; I wanted to be on the right side.

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

Just as I got older, I think I've become more and more conservative.

Our only hope for America is that every conservative takes upon him or herself the project of learning what American and conservative values are, coming to understand what leftism stands for, and learning how to make the case for those values to women, young people, blacks and Hispanics.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.

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

Friends, there is no Left in American politics.

You can make an argument that Bill O'Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill's kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.

Happens I am very political. I have deep political instincts.

I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.