The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
American history is the story of Democratic malefactors and Republican heroes.
I don't pay any attention to what the 'Baltimore Sun' editorial page says about anything.
I'm old enough to remember when Republicans loved the CBO because it tells the conservatives the thing that matters most to them which is how much is it going to cost taxpayers.
At the end of the day, Americans are not so keen on ideologues, people who have such fixed positions that they can't see any virtue in the other side's point of view.
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.
If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself
I don't think Donald Trump is the right person because I very much disagree with him.
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.
It is the ultimate conceit of conservatives: that more than half of American voters don't make up more than half of our country.
When I bring people on my show, I'm not going to bring the right-wingers on that just reinforce what I have to say, and I'm not going to bring on the liberals so that I can talk over them or interrupt them because, to me, that doesn't educate anyone or inform anyone.
Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy and the Republican Party are criminal, racist or both. The simple reality is that, for him, the Democratic Party is far too conservative.
Republicans do actually care about health care. They just don't care about government-run health care.
For the Left, Thanksgiving is about politics; for the Right, politics is about thanksgiving. The different approaches to holiday conversation come from opposing views of politics.
According to today's Los Angeles Times, Gray Davis now gets negative job ratings from white people, black people, Latinos, Republicans, Independents and even Democrats. Say what you want about the guy but he's a uniter!
Any person would like a line item veto if the chief executive at that time agrees with their particular views.
Democrats hate stay-at-home spouses, no matter what gender or gender preference.
If only the left hated crime as much as they hated hate.
[They] should never have put me with that woman. ... She was just a sort of bigoted woman who said she used to be Labour.
Politicians are trapped in their own views.
Patrick Moynihan famously said that everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not to his own facts. Liberals want to turn that on its head and claim that their opinions are facts and anyone who disagrees isn’t merely voicing a bad opinion but it somehow living in alternative reality or “denying” science. It’s the secular version of claiming that God is on your side.
Right-wingers don't want public education to succeed.
Of course I am partisan in my politics, but my partisanship is rational - which, in my book, is not necessarily oxymoronic.
Republicans regard Dean as one of their best secret weapons, I have yet to find a Democrat who, in private chatter, doesn't think he's a problem for them.
Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case, you might say its ideas were pretty good - only the execution often left something to be desired.
