Democracy Quote by George P. Shultz

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to…

— Irving Kristol

Neoconservatism is not what people think it is. It is not a party or a group. Many people popularly seen as neocons - Dick…

— Douglas Murray

Neoconservatism' once had a real meaning - back in the 1970s. But the label has now become meaningless. With many of those who are…

— Max Boot

For the most part neoconservatives are people who were once liberals but sobered up. The neoliberal is one who has always been a liberal…

— Emmett Tyrrell

I don't regard myself as any kind of conservative, except conceivably neo, and that word, of course, is a ridiculous appellation, because it's used…

— Christopher Hitchens

“One difficulty we face today is the fact that the Republicrat faction that portrays itself as ‘conservative’ is anything but. While the term ‘neoconservative’…

— Joseph Befumo

The term neo-liberal does not have a good definition. It's mostly used when you are angry with somebody or dislike someone, you call them…

— Gita Gopinath

The neo-conservatives, who are closely linked to the neo-corporatists, are rather different. They claim to be conservatives, when everything they stand for is a…

— John Ralston Saul

The neoconservatives are a small circle, and they're all sort of holding hands as they develop their policy, and outsiders aren't allowed. If you…

— Seymour Hersh

Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right…

— Maajid Nawaz

I am not a neoconservative.

— John Bolton

The neoconservatives of the 1970s, former liberals who became Nixon or Reagan backers, eventually accepted the 'neocon' description instead of calling themselves 'The Real…

— Ross Douthat