Christopher Lasch Quotes

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

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

I don’t think America really has a left wing. The American left wing would fit very comfortably in the center or center right of most European political spectrums.

The arrogance of the Left always fascinates me.

A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything.

Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.

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

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Not a lot of conservatives on this list. Are more liberals than conservatives screwing up America?

I hate Republicans and everything they stand for.

Well it's really hard to satisfy the right wing. I can tell you that.

If there is true evil in the world - it is Republican conservatives.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute.

That's what the right-wing is good at: figuring out the left wing.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

The problem for the Left, however, is that the moment it stops painting the Right as vile, it has to argue the issues.

The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.

Every now and again, people on the far right take a quote from a progressive out of context and use it to attack them.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

Let's get the elephant out of the room. I'm a conservative Democrat.

I've always thought the Right-wing were ones that were inflexible and intolerant, and now I'm coming to realize that the orthodoxy at NPR, it's representing the Left.

You're considered to have a rare kind of social disease if you espouse neo-conservative ideas in Canada.

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

Conservatives read books and liberals don’t.