Leader Quote by Jonathan Chait Download Open image “Liberals tend to romanticize the past, past leaders' failures.” — Jonathan Chait ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Leader Leadership Past Time
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past. — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Lest conservatives be too proud, it's worth recalling that conservatism's rise was decisively enabled by liberalism's weakness. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The most fundamental liberal failure of the current era: the failure to embrace a moral vision of America based on the transcendent faith that… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes. — Gunnar Myrdal Copy Share Image
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Liberalism teaches those who have fallen behind in the economic scramble to blame others for their failure. This attitude stimulates juices of resentment and… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Liberals are constantly wrong. In fact, that's how you rise to the top in liberalism, by being wrong. If you are wrong, and if… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Liberalism's fatal flaw,... is that it has no permanent norms, only a succession of enthusiasms espoused by minor prophets. Each of these seems like… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The reason any conservative's failing is always major news is that it allows liberals to engage in their very favorite taunt: Hypocrisy! Hypocrisy is… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I've defended the Clintons longer than I've been a liberal, but I don't have any nostalgia for that. — Cenk Uygur Copy Share Image
Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong. — Stockwell Day Copy Share Image
In public, Barack Obama's giving the simple version of his beliefs for the mass public. In private, he can discuss it at a really… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
We're not going to be living in a world of abundant coal power in a hundred years. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Because many people remembered a time when the Republican Party was not so extreme, and hadn't full grasped how much it had changed, people… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
On Obamacare, every day that goes by I have more evidence that I wish I could put in my book, on how difficult it… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
In some ways, Trump is just going to continue the trend: by continuing the norm-smashing behaviour that Republicans used in opposition. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
It's possible that the clowning and the buffoonery and the entertainment are a bigger part of what's happening than we've allowed. And that Trump… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
That's an important Obama accomplishment: he raised taxes back to Bill Clinton levels, and made a major dent in inequality doing so. That's certain… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
President Obama is so much smarter and a better communicator than members of Congress in either party. The contrast, side by side, is almost… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
It's pretty clear that Hillary Clinton was a deeply, deeply flawed alternative. She had the wrong combination of the internal political chops to muscle… — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
I genuinely did not expect more than half our nation to choose to walk away from our long-term allies into the arms of our… — Brian Reade Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball. — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
No judge can stop us from praying for our country and I pray that on May 6, millions of Americans will join me in… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
“A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!” — Miriam Lichtheim Copy Share Image
We're going to create factory jobs for recent immigrants, and Donald Trump is going to take care of them. That's why his numbers, even… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
I really don't think you need a letter on your jersey to be a leader on a hockey club. — Carey Price Copy Share Image
However, however, if the goal is to abandon America's free enterprise economy, if the goal is to convert America into a submissive member of… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Notoriously outspoken, his sentences always punctuated with profanities, General George S. Patton was the epitome of what a leader should be like - or… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I was born in Cuba. At the age of 14 years of age I was involved in a revolution. We were suffering from a… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
