Jonah Goldberg > Quotes

“If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”
― Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

“America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.”
― Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning

“[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“Government money only pays for the "liberties" the government thinks you should have, and therefore it can determine how you exercise them. That turns liberties into privileges dispensed at the whim of the state.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“If you think shrinking government and getting it less involved in your life is a hallmark of tyranny it is only because you are either grotesquely ignorant or because you subscribe to a statist ideology that believes the expansion of the state is the expansion of liberty.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“What is more likely? That tomorrow will be called 'Thursday' or that Maxine Waters will play the race card in her ethics investigation?”
― Jonah Goldberg

“I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“Not reassuring when weathermen say 'Today will be terrible but don't worry it won't be as terrible as tomorrow or Friday.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“People ask, “Why is there poverty in the world?” It’s a silly question. Poverty is the default human condition. It is the factory preset of this mortal coil.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“Whenever you hear a politician start a sentence with, “If we can put a man on the moon . . . ,” grab your wallet.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“I don't think twice about picking up my dog's poop, but if another dog's poop is next to it, I think, 'Eww, dog poop!”
― Jonah Goldberg

“Tip to all British tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was individual. Hayek's is a philosophy that treats individuals as the best judges of their own self-interests, which in turn yield staggering communal cooperation. Dewey's was the philosophy of a giant, Monty Pythonesque crowd shouting on cue: "We're All Individuals!”
― Jonah Goldberg, The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas

“One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“Gov. Christie says 'New Jersey First.' State-based Isolationism!”
― Jonah Goldberg

“I think there needs to be a meeting to set an agenda for more meetings about meetings.”
― Jonah Goldberg

“Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.”
― Jonah Goldberg