Charlie Sykes

I'm not usually absolutely speechless.

— Charlie Sykes

The N.R.A. has effectively turned itself into the Id of the Right.

— Charlie Sykes

We have to have a revival of the concept 'truth matters.'

— Charlie Sykes

To put it bluntly, the push for 'college for all' sets up students to fail.

— Charlie Sykes

I'm a conservative who likes small government and lower taxes.

— Charlie Sykes

In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.

— Charlie Sykes

The GOP was once the party of William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, and John McCain.

— Charlie Sykes

We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not.

— Charlie Sykes

It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest.

— Charlie Sykes

Nothing annoys academics more than pointing out how little time they actually spend teaching students.

— Charlie Sykes

Reagan did not have to rely on or cope with talk radio, Fox News, Breitbart, or any of the other trolls that…

— Charlie Sykes

Unless you have experienced it, it's difficult to describe the virulence of the Twitter storms that were unleashed on Trump skeptics.

— Charlie Sykes

Congress is a co-equal branch of government, with a long and rich history of standing up to the executive branch.

— Charlie Sykes

At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy…

— Charlie Sykes

I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the…

— Charlie Sykes

There was a time when the Republican Party could discuss possible reforms to our gun laws: Ronald Reagan himself endorsed the Brady…

— Charlie Sykes

I don't think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man without any fixed principles. And to the extent he…

— Charlie Sykes

For decades, conservatives have struggled with containing crackpottery, most notably William F. Buckley's famous excommunication of the John Birch Society in the…

— Charlie Sykes

Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his base, which has been conditioned to reject reporting…

— Charlie Sykes

We would naturally prefer not to reckon with the worst of what people do or say on the margins, but we have…

— Charlie Sykes

When it became clear that I was going to remain #NeverTrump, conservatives I had known and worked with for more than two…

— Charlie Sykes

In our era of zero tolerance, I would surely have spent most of elementary and middle school shuttling between suspensions and expulsions,…

— Charlie Sykes

Despite the evidence that we already have too many students in higher education, the hot new idea among the political class is…

— Charlie Sykes

Victimism can be seen as a generalized cultural impulse to deny personal responsibility and to obsess on the grievances of the insatiable…

— Charlie Sykes

You know something that you'll never hear on one of these cable talking-head shows? One of the guests going, 'Hmm, I don't…

— Charlie Sykes

I am less horrified by Trump himself than by what he has done to the rationalizers and enablers.

— Charlie Sykes

I feel dumber every time I listen to Sean Hannity. I don't want to be that guy.

— Charlie Sykes

Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities.

— Charlie Sykes

After 2008, I told people that conservatives were going to be invisible for a while. But, with time, our ideas would be back.

— Charlie Sykes

It turns out that many of the Trump voters who had said they wanted to burn it all down meant it, and…

— Charlie Sykes

The shock of Trumpism has made me rethink what the conservative movement was about and who our allies were and what our…

— Charlie Sykes

In 2008, conservatives ridiculed the Left for its adulation of Barack Obama, only to succumb to their own cult of personality eight…

— Charlie Sykes

I'm still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution.

— Charlie Sykes

Criticisms of mainstream media bias have been a staple of the conservative movement and talk radio from the beginning.

— Charlie Sykes

It has almost become a cliche that we are a polarized country, but the reality runs deeper.

— Charlie Sykes

It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by…

— Charlie Sykes

There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right.

— Charlie Sykes

I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler.

— Charlie Sykes

For the anti-anti-Trump pundit, whatever the allegation against Mr. Trump, whatever his blunders or foibles, the other side is always worse.

— Charlie Sykes

Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.

— Charlie Sykes