Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them.… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Someone once noted that a 'gaffe' in Washington is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
But this is the kind of ass-clownery that stems from the fact that all philosophy looks weird when you don't have one. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
When I see hipsters wearing Mao hats or Lenin T-shirts, I'm grateful. It's like truth-in-labeling. For now I know you are: Woefully… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
A week after his State of the Union address, political observers are still trying to figure out what President Obama's game is.… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Let's treat politicians like Twinkies. They have to disclose their ingredients - i.e., where their money is from - but beyond that,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The truth is France has been the chief Western advocate of normalizing relations with Iraq - one of its largest trading partners… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Are you a producer or a looter? If diversity were always and everywhere good we would be clamoring for more midgets in the NBA. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“The nasty racism that infused the progressive eugenics of Margaret Sanger and others has largely melted away. But liberal fascists are still racist in… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Liberals are Nazis, and Nazis are liberals. And if you don't agree with me, you're a Nazi too. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the charitable good… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
(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… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
(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… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
The logical upshot of liberalism's hatred of hypocrisy is that it is better for the liar to champion lying, the glutton to advocate gluttony,… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“No nation influenced American thinking more profoundly than Germany, W.E.B. DuBois, Charles Beard, Walter Weyl, Richard Ely, Richard Ely, Nicholas Murray Butler, and countless… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
In Europe and America alike, voters increasingly recognize that the benefits of the green revolution aren't worth the costs, particularly when the revolutionaries don't… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image