Christopher Hitchens Quotes

What matters now, the only thing that matters right now is that whatever you think of the conservative movement and whoever you think is or isn't one, no matter who you think they are, they cannot unify around the concept of beating a Democrat. That's what you have to learn. If that's the movement you want to be part of, then you have at it.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

The most passionately anti-Obama Republican politicians and activists consider themselves the truest and purest of conservatives, and often unleash their scorn and fury on others who also call themselves conservative but differ on strategy and tactics.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

I'm appalled that when I talk about the neo-conservatives it's somehow twisted, some sort of a racist comment.

The Democrats fought with the conservatives. The Republicans fought with the liberals. The Bull Moosers fought with everybody.

Politics boils down to the stories we tell ourselves. And unfortunately, we tell ourselves different stories.

The neoconservatives of the 1970s, former liberals who became Nixon or Reagan backers, eventually accepted the 'neocon' description instead of calling themselves 'The Real New Deal Democrats' forever.

As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.

If you're going to talk about politics, then there are going to be folks who are with you and folks that are against you.

For neo-conservatism is a quintessentially Jewish project: a re-sanctification in everyday life of the core values of western civilisation, and the achievement of human potential through virtuous practice. The neo-cons' crucial insight is that public signals through law, custom and tradition are the key to getting people to behave well. And that is a Jewish insight.

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us.

I don't understand if the conservative movement says you can't be gay and conservative, and I'm straight, then I don't think I can abide by that form of conservatism.

The natural condition of the modern conservative movement is to always be in a state of revolution. Conservatives are, by definition, uncomfortable with power.

Most people in the Tea Party are nice, but that hasn't stopped liberals from hating them.

Who is the conservative movement, where is it located, and who runs it, and who's in charge of it? They can't even agree within the conservative movement who is a conservative and who isn't.

Donald Trump descends in a very powerful way from longstanding tenets of American conservatism, they're just not the movement conservatism we associate with Reagan.

The conservative movement today is so fractured that I think you'd have a tough time actually defining it and pointing to it.

That's what the conservative movement has become, is basically an annex of the [Donald] Trump campaign.

The conservative movement is like a country club based in Washington, D.C.

The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement.