“The Democrats and Republicans stand at two extremes, characterized by which parts of our lives they emphasize their desire to control. Libertarians reject both extremes in favor of the government leaving control of your life to you.” TwoGovernmentDesireLibertyOur LivesRepublicanDemocratLeavingExtremesLibertarianFavorsRejectsTwo ExtremesControl Of Your Life Author:Michael Badnarik
“We're all a bunch of badminton birdies who just got batted from the Republican side of the court to the Democrat side. We'll eventually get batted back again, of course, unless libertarians can manage to do something about it. If your principal concern, like mine, is freedom, there's absolutely no discernable difference between the two 'majors,' and for all practical purposes, they're one big party - the Boot On Your Neck party - pretending to be two.” IfsTwoBigsPurposeCoursesSidesDifferencesPartyMinesRepublicanMajorsConcernCourtDemocratLibertarianPracticalsBunchManageNecksPretendingBootsPrincipalBack AgainBadminton Author:L. Neil Smith
“My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere.” WifeMiddleRepublicanMetsDemocratMy WifeLibertarian Author:Clint Eastwood
“In the US, voters cast ballots for individual candidates who are not bound to any party program except rhetorically, and not always then. Some Republicans are more liberal than some Democrats, some libertarians are more radical than some socialists, and many local candidates run without any party identification. No American citizen can vote intelligently without knowledge of the ideas, political background, and commitments of each individual candidate.” IdeasRunningPoliticalIndividualPartyCitizensRepublicanCommitmentProgramVoteDemocratBoundsCastsLibertarianBackgroundsLocalsRadicalCandidatesVotersBallotsIdentificationAmerican Citizens Author:Ben Bagdikian
“[If Republicans] got to put their kids into public school. They got to take public health. They would become libertarian faster than you could say Ayn Rand.” IfsKidsSchoolRepublicanLibertarianFasterPublic SchoolPublic Health Author:Greg Gutfeld
“We are a one party country. Half of them call themselves Democrats and the other half call themselves Republicans. All the good ideas come from the Libertarians.” IdeasCountryPartyHalfRepublicanDemocratLibertarianGood IdeasOther Half Author:Hugh Downs
“Republicans are already on seriously thin ice, having presided over an era of unprecedented spending and consistently failing to articulate conservative principles on a wide variety of issues. But what Obama has in store will make President Bush appear, in retrospect, like a libertarian.” PresidentPrinciplesIssuesFailingRepublicanConservativeWideSpendingLibertarianStoresIceVarietyErasConsistentlyPresident BushUnprecedentedRetrospect Author:David Limbaugh
“I have said many times in the past I don't choose to be vice president, either Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or vegetarian.” SaidPastPresidentRepublicanDemocratVicesLibertarianVegetarianVice President Author:John McCain
“I mean, this is a group [Republicans], don't forget, that gave its presidential straw ballot to Ron Paul, Ron Paul, and Rand Paul and Rand Paul. So, they have abandoned what - their libertarian values and instincts to embrace [Donald] Trump.” MeanValuesForgetGroupsTrumpRepublicanEmbraceInstinctLibertarianPresidentialAbandonedBallotsStraws Author:Mark Shields
“There are two reasons [ business people are not publicly anti-Donald Trump ], one is well-intentioned, which is the classic kind of American notion. We want to be inclusive, we want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether they are Democrat, Republican, Green or Libertarian, to feel comfortable with how we're doing business. And so that tends to be apolitical. People say, "No, no, I just simply shouldn't get involved in politics."” PeopleWantFeelsWellsKindTwoReasonTrumpInvolvedRepublicanComfortableGreenDemocratNotionCustomersLibertarianClassicEmployeeGet InvolvedShareholdersApolitical Author:Reid Hoffman
“I think a lot of voters have certain cognitive dissidence. Donald Trump is getting social conservatives, economic conservatives, some Libertarian, some supply side conservatives, debt hawks. The conservative and Republican base is not monolithic. It has subsets that he seems to be appealing to all of them.” ThinkingSeemsCertainSocialSidesEconomicTrumpRepublicanConservativeDebtLibertarianVotersCognitiveHawks Author:Roger Stone