Jonah Goldberg quotes - page 5

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality. (Jonah Goldberg)
Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency. View quote
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The GOP needs to figure out a way to become more appealing to new constituencies. View quote
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I think as - all in all, it's better to have a cool president than a not cool president. View quote
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But you're never taught in schools - we don't teach anyone in public schools that government is the problem. We don't teach anyone in college that government is the problem - except maybe a handful of sort of unique, conservative schools. But mainstream media never talks as if government is the problem. View quote
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If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize. View quote
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There was no intellectual movement in American history called social Darwinism. The people who were supposedly the leaders of the social Darwinist movement never embraced something called social Darwinism. It didn't exist. View quote
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One common tactic [socialists like to use] is to point to countries that liberals like and dub them real-world models of socialism. Thus Scandinavian countries with generous social safety nets become the real-world proof that socialism works. Others will just point to government-run programs or institutions-national parks, the VA, whatever-and say "socialism!” (What about Venezuela? "Shut up,” they explain.) View quote
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[T]he immediate assumption that praise for, or pride in, Western civilization is a species of bigotry and racism is a perfect example of the sort of civilizational suicide I describe in my own book on the subject. View quote
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