20th-century Political Commentator Quotes

Peter Abrahams

Bill O'Reilly

Ann Coulter

Jerry Falwell

Sean Hannity

Dinesh D'Souza

Keith Olbermann

You don't have to be a good person to be a good writer--history shows it's better if you're not--but you have to understand your badness.

As one of the original founders of the modern-day Tea Party movement, I watched grassroots conservatives support Ted Cruz's David and Goliath success against Dewhurst and the Republican establishment. Cruz has fought to repeal Obamacare, shrink the size of government; he has defended our gun rights, our right to privacy, our sovereignty and borders. I personally feel that Ted Cruz is the best choice to reverse America's road to ruin and am proud to support him in the 2016 Republican primary.

Instead of using this space to pretend the newly released CIA 'torture' report confirms that the United States is the most evil nation in the history of the universe, I'm going to address Jonathan Gruber's confirmation that he believes we're all stupid.

We have not yet found shiny, pointy things that I would call a weapon.

When liberals insist that only fascists will defend borders, then voters will hire fascists to do the job liberals won't do.

McCain ran an aggressive, hard-hitting campaign against former Congressman J. D. Hayworth. If he had taken this same kind of principled conservative and 'take no prisoners' campaign against Barack Obama in 2008, he'd now be in the second year of his presidency.

Richard Viguerie

Of all the potential perils to the new American republic, the prospect of concentrated power... troubled the intellectual leaders of the Revolutionary generation. Familiar as the founders were with old Europe... they understood why the accumulation of inherited wealth led to inequities and imbalances that inevitably corrupted any system of government.

I think [Pat] Buchanan is far too easily and glibly dismissed.

The success of a terrorist operation depends almost entirely on the amount of publicity it receives.

This is a book about a lie and the liars who told it to the American people. It is also about citizenship and the responsibility of all Americans to hold themselves to the highest standards of citizenship, including holding accountable those we elect to represent us in higher office. It is about truth, justice and the rule of law and the danger imposed on us all by those who lie, pervert justice, and absolve themselves from the rule of law.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

Keith Olbermann

You've got to kill the terrorists before the killing stops and I am for the President—chase them all over the world, if it takes ten years, blow them all away in the name of the Lord.

Each morning we sat reading our copy of the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times and ruminated on their prophecies of doom and quagmire. Then we looked up to see, on television, correspondents actually embedded with our troops, reporting quick advances, one- sided firefights, melting opposition and, finally, welcoming crowds.

People don't dream all their lives of escaping the hellish countries they live in and pay their life savings to underworld types for the privilege of being locked up in a freezing, filthy, stinking container ship and hauled like cargo for weeks until they finally arrive in Moscow or Beijing or Baghdad or Kabul. People risk their lives to come here—to New York. The greatest city in the world, where dreams become reality.

At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse.

The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.

By 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress.