“As long-term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period... Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. My personal impression - and this is valid for South America - is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government.” MayLongGovernmentAmericaTermExamplePeriodsInstitutionsDemocraticSouthImpressionWitnessLong TermLiberalismTransitionDictatorshipDictatorLackingChileSouth AmericaDemocratic Government Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy.” TogetherCertainLanguageIssuesEventsHabitConflictMouthsWingsResponseConservativeStuckKneesUncomfortablePacksOrthodoxyRight WingJerkEpithetBanding Together Author:George Carlin
“Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.” KnowsAllowanceConjecture Book:Middlemarch Source: Middlemarch
“Much of America is now in need of an equivalent of Mrs. Thatcher's privatization program in 1980s Britain, or post-Soviet Eastern Europe's economic liberalization in the early Nineties. It's hard to close down government bodies, but it should be possible to sell them off. And a side benefit to outsourcing the Bureau of Government Agencies and the Agency of Government Bureaus is that you'd also be privatizing public-sector unions, which are the biggest and most direct assault on freedom, civic integrity, and fiscal solvency.” NeedsShouldHardBodyGovernmentAmericaSidesEconomicIntegrityBenefitsEuropeProgramDirectSellsUnionsPostsAgencyBritainSovietAssaultEasternCivicsEastern EuropePublic SectorOutsourcingPrivatizationGovernment AgenciesMrs Thatcher Author:Mark Steyn
“For the average American, the message is clear. Liberalism is no longer the answer. It is the problem.” ProblemAnswersClearMessagesAverageLiberalism Author:Ronald Reagan
“I have liberal friends. They are misguided, they are wrong. I disagree with them. I don't want them to vote. I want them to go on vacation in November.” WantGoes OnVoteDisagreeVacationNovemberMisguided Author:Sean Hannity
“You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras, Democritus and all the other high priests of liberal studies, and Aristotle and Theophrastus. None of these will be too busy to see you, none of these will not send his visitor away happier and more devoted to himself, none of these will allow anyone to depart empty-handed. They are at home to all mortals by night and by day.” ShouldHomeNightWishStudyDutyInvolvedEmptyBusyMortalsPriestsWorthwhileDevotedClosestToo BusyVisitorsClosest Friends Author:Seneca the Younger
“What about the accusation that Hollywood is trying to advance its liberal agenda? Well, the fact is, while the creative community admittedly leans left, Hollywood has become a corporate town.” TryingWellsFactsLeftCommunityCreativeHollywoodTownsCorporateAgendasAccusation Author:Steven Levitan
“The equation Bubble Tea = Something to Look Forward To depressurizes the misery of capitalism and is a Hello Kitty band-aid on the festering wound of Neo-Liberalism.” LooksBandCapitalismMiseryAidsWoundsTeaLiberalismBubblesHelloEquationsKittiesBand AidFesteringHello Kitty Author:Vanessa Veselka
“Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'” WantSaidGovernmentTalkingSupportHellProgramAdministrationNaiveIntimidated Author:William Julius Wilson
