Education Quote by John W. Dean

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

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

“Neoliberalism is an extreme form of capitalism that started to become dominant in the 1980s, under Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, but since the…

— Naomi Klein

But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have…

— Stephen Harper

Conserving the individual is the basis of conservatism. It is classical, de Tocqueville liberalism.

— Dana Loesch

“It is possible that a slow decline in the power of organized conservatism in America will usher in a new era of progressive hegemony…

— George Hawley

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

“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

All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were…

— Barack Obama

There was a time when the term liberal had been so thoroughly demonized by those on the right that I remember consciously choosing to…

— Bret Weinstein