Reality Quote by Irving Kristol

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

— George P. Shultz

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

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

— Stockwell Day

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

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

“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

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

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

— Irving Kristol

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

Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or…

— Henry Giroux

I am not a neoconservative.

— John Bolton