Jacob Weisberg Quotes

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

MSNBC will never be as liberal as Fox is conservative.

A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, and a libertarian is a conservative who's been indicted.

I am not a centrist.

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

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

In New York, the opposite of a Democrat is not a Republican; it’s a Fascist.

The greatest lie that was ever told is that I'm some sort of rightwinger.

I don't believe all Republicans are bad.

Conservatives are either stupid or brilliant. Pick a narrative, leftist MSM. You can't have it both ways.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

There are things that I can agree with from both sides: perhaps the civil libertarian issues of the Left and also the economic freedom issues of the Right while still rejecting the big-government tendencies of both sides of the political spectrum.

Who needs checks and balances when the left, seemingly, knows and can decide right from wrong? When the left can decide what can be said and what cannot be said? When the left can decide how much money you're allowed to make or whether or not you deserve health care? It is a quest for power. And, it is dangerous.

My Grandmother wouldn't even speak the word Democrat if there were children in the room, she'd say Bastards instead.

I've been called communist, socialist, anti-American.

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

My audience is much more center right, or centrist.

Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness.