Jonah Goldberg Quotes - Page 5

Quotes about:

• Our country, if you read the 'Federalist Papers,' is about disagreement. It's about pitting faction against faction, divided government, checks and balances. The hero in American political tradition is the man who stands up to the mob - not the mob itself.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, Hero, Men

  "Do Liberals Live Under A 'Tyranny Of Cliches'?". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2012.

  56 Copy quote

• On Tuesday, the so-called Islamic State released a slickly produced video showing a Jordanian pilot being burned alive in a steel cage. On Wednesday, the United Nations issued a report detailing various 'mass executions of boys, as well as reports of beheadings, crucifixions of children, and burying children alive' at the hands of the Islamic State.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Children, Islamic, Boys

  "Obama's Comparison of Christianity to Radical Islam Defies Logic" by Jonah Goldberg, www.realclearpolitics.com. February 6, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

• Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Long, Hypocrisy, Champion

  11 Copy quote

• I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Republican, More Money, Barack

  "Jonah Goldberg Slams 'Niggling Pedant' Piers Morgan After Monday's Interview". "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.newsbusters.org. May 1, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

• I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Thinking, President

  4 Copy quote

• I suppose in John Kerry's world good diplomacy lets the boys in the bar finish raping the girl for fear of causing a fuss. Okay, that was unfair.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Girl, Boys, Bars

  4 Copy quote

• Seriously, in 2008 we elected a community organizer, state senator, college instructor first term senator over a guy who spent five years in a Vietnamese prison. And now he's lecturing us about how America's gone "soft"? Really?

  Jonah Goldberg

  College, Years, America

  4 Copy quote

• I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  13 Copy quote

• Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Exercise, Thinking, Government

  4 Copy quote

• [American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Political, Today, Human Life

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.14, Crown Forum

  4 Copy quote

• The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Book, Perspective, Premises

  4 Copy quote

• Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Office, Debt, Facts

  4 Copy quote

• There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist.

  Jonah Goldberg

  People, Leader, Intellectual

  "Do Liberals Live Under A 'Tyranny Of Cliches'?". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 2, 2012.

  52 Copy quote

• The Mars Polar Lander cost the average American the price of half a cheeseburger. A human lander would cost the average American more - perhaps even ten cheeseburgers! So be it. That is no great sacrifice.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Sacrifice, Average, Cost

  "A Continent Bleeds" by Jonah Goldberg, www.nationalreview.com. May 3, 2000.

  4 Copy quote

• The decision [to create a theme park called "EuroWorld"] was made by the EU countries in response to their collective realization that no one in Europe has had an innovative idea in well over a century.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, Europe, Ideas

  4 Copy quote

• (I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin appeased Hitler when he signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Stalin was an evil character, to be sure. But cowardice really isn't the first word that comes to mind when thinking of Stalin ' that word is “sexy.” I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Sexy, Character, Thinking

  6 Copy quote

• In the weeks prior to the war to liberate Afghanistan, a good friend of mine would ask me almost every day, “Why aren't we killing people yet?” And I never had a good answer for him. Because one of the most important and vital things the United States could do after 9/11 was to kill people. Call it a “forceful response,” “decisive action” ' whatever. Those are all nice euphemisms for killing people. And the world is a better place because America saw the necessity of putting steel beneath the velvet of those euphemisms.

  Jonah Goldberg

  War, Nice, Good Friend

  4 Copy quote

• (J)ust to clarify: If you go into every situation saying there's absolutely nothing worth fighting over, you will inevitably end up on a cot sleeping next to a guy named Tiny, bringing him breakfast in his cell every morning, and spending your afternoons ironing his boxers. Or, in the case of the French, you might spend your afternoon rounding up Jews to send to Germany, but you get the point.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Morning, Sleep, Fighting

  4 Copy quote

• (I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it's because you think France's self-interest is more important than America's. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it's the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don't call France's position principled, because that just insults us both.

  Jonah Goldberg

  War, Integrity, Moving

  4 Copy quote

• I have a simple answer to any American patriot who claims that there is no conflict between his love of country and his desire to hitch our fate to the United Nations: “You're mistaken.” And, therefore, I'm thinking of adding this corollary to my General Rule of patriotism: The more intellectually consistent and pro-U.N. you are, the less patriotic you are likely to be. I haven't thought that all the way through, but it seems right to me.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Country, Patriotic, Fate

  4 Copy quote

• By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Writing, Editors, Scary

  4 Copy quote

• And, of course, liberals see no problem with using the government to impose their cultural beliefs on others; they just won't admit that's what they're doing.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Government, Belief, Problem

  4 Copy quote

• I've just returned from my daughter's Halloween parade at grade school. She was supergirl - and she was perfect. And, even better, she still considers boys to be made of kryptonite.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Daughter, Halloween, School

  9 Copy quote

• In many respects fascism not only is here but has been here for nearly a century. For what we call liberalism--the refurbished edifice of American Progressivism--is in fact a descendant and manifestation of fascism.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Facts, Century, Fascism

  Jonah Goldberg (2009). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.9, Penguin UK

  4 Copy quote

• As we all know, the most effective lies are the ones sprinkled with the most actual truths.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Lying, Knows

  Jonah Goldberg (2008). “Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning”, p.57, Crown Forum

  7 Copy quote

Page 5 of 6

First

← Prev

1

2

3

4

5

6

Next →

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin