1970s Quote by Max Boot

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

— David Frum

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

I am not a neoconservative.

— John Bolton

The view that we know less than we thought we knew about how to change the human condition came, in time, to be called…

— James Q. Wilson