Linda Ronstadt Quotes

This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

When a society is stressed, when it comes up against things that are hard to understand, you get a lot of delusional thinking.

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

It's a sad commentary on where politics is today. If someone disagrees with you, you're either Attila the Hun or a leftist liberal.

The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open-minded, not even considering a conservative point of view. I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open-minded, pure and simple.

My view on Democrats is that they're fascists disguised as liberals, or liberal moderates. You're not allowed to say anything they don't agree with. You're not allowed to do anything.

It's a tough one for me, politics. I grew up in a house where my father is a Christian book salesman and a Tory, and my mum's a social worker. So I can always see the benefits of both arguments.

Leftists' meanness toward those with whom they differ has no echo on the normative right.

The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.

I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.

One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives.

People of a certain political view tend to read material of only that point of view … except to cast contempt on the other points of view.

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

Liberalism is a Mental Illness

I must confess that when I see anyone with an Obama bumper sticker I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool.

Liberals can understand everything, but people who don’t understand them.