“A right winger is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.”
“Come, come, my right wing friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.”
- Elizabeth Stanton
“The modern right winger is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.”
- J.K. Gailbraith
"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people." - Dan Qualye
“A right wing man is a man who has plenty of money and don't see any reason why he shouldn't always have plenty of money.”
- W. Rogers
“A right winger is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one.
- Douglas Jerrold
“The political media are only as liberal as the right wing businesses that own them.”
- Mort Sahl
“A politic right winger is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.”
- Woodrow Wilson
" A political right winger is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a wish."
- G Keillor
"But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kinds of policies just is not reflective of their political opinions."
- Clarence Thompson
"Liberalism is, I
think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so
painfully aware of the alternative. The modern conservative is engaged
in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the
search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
- John
Kenneth Galbraith
"Liberalism is trust
of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of the
people, tempered by fear."
- William Gladstone
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off. Stay away from politic."
- Gloria Steinem
"Government is a
contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have
the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this
wisdom."
- Jimmy Carter
"Liberalism is the
supreme form of generosity; it is the right by which the majority
concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever
resounded on this planet."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
"Nothing is politically right which is morally wrong."
- Daniel O'connell
"A liberal is a man
or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more
tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future."
- Leonard Bernstein
"Man is by nature a political animal."
- Fisher Ames
"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
- Adlai Stevenson
"Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen."
Mort Sahl
"Patriotism is in political life what faith is in religion."
- John Dalberg Acton
"The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy."
- Ramsey Clark
"President Bush said that the United States is still under the threat of an attack which will continue right up until Politic Election Day."
- Jay Leno
"Education remains the key to both economic and politic empowerment."
- Barbara Jordan
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
- President Bush (no joke)
