List of Jonah Goldberg Quotes

Governing Involves Choosing And Making Choices Between Competing Goods.

A Lot Of The Things That Trump Needs To Do To Be A Popular President Requires Annoying His Biggest Fans.

Historians Write Favorably, You Know, For Example, About Stalin Because He Was Doing Big Things.

Whenever A Republican Gets In Office, All Of A Sudden Progressives Realize That Federalism And State's Rights Aren't Necessarily Only About Defending Slavery Or Jim Crow. They're Actually About Maximizing Freedom.

When I Started Criticizing Donald Trump When He Got More Popular On The Right, One Of The Most Things That I Discovered Was How Many People Were Mad At Me For Not Living Down To Their Expectations. There Are A Lot Of Pundits On The Right Who Think Their Job Is To Be A Cheerleader For Their Team. That Is Not My Job. My Job Is To Tell The Truth As I See It, And That Is Gotten A Lot Of People Angry.

I Have Always Seen The Clinton Foundation - Yes, They Do A Lot Of Charitable Good Works. But By My Lights, The Charitable Good Works Were A Cost Center Like The Electric Bill. The Reason Why The Foundation Exists Wasn't To Do Good Work. It Was To Serve As Sort Of A Place To Park Lugubrious Sycophants Like Sidney Blumenthal And Other Henchman, A Place To Serve As A Super Pac, A Place Park Her Campaign While They Were A Government In Exile

The Problem Is I Think Howie Is Exactly Right, Is That Donald Trump Would Rather Be At The Center Of A Media Controversy In A Negative Way Than Allow The Limelight To Move To Hillary Clinton And Let Her Actually Take Heat In The Public - In A Public Arena. And It Just Sucks Up All Of The Oxygen.

Public Unions Are The Country's Foremost Advocates For Increased Taxes At All Levels Of Government.

Free Trade Has Been Proven, Time And Again, As A Reliable Path To Economic Development. It Pushes The Public And Private Sectors Alike Toward Greater Accountability And Transparency. It Lifts People Out Of Poverty, And While It Can Force Unsettling Changes On A Society, Those Changes Prove To Be Worthwhile In A Very Short Time.

Today's Unions Are Less Mobbed-up Than Those Of Yesteryear To Be Sure, But They're Hardly Above Tactics That Would Be Considered Intimidating And Coercive.

The Decision [to Create A Theme Park Called "euroworld"] Was Made By The Eu Countries In Response To Their Collective Realization That No One In Europe Has Had An Innovative Idea In Well Over A Century.

I Like Vengeance As Much As The Next Guy, If The Next Guy Likes Vengeance A Whole Lot.

Tip To All British Tabloids: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone. I Repeat: Do Not Hack Amy Winehouse's Phone.

[a] Country Without A Word To Describe Its Love For What Is Best Within It Is A Country Ill-equipped To Defend What Is Best Within It.

The Search For A Moral Equivalent Of War Continues To Define American Liberalism To This Day.

There's Nothing Within Science Per Se That Says Medical Researchers Must Not Experiment On Human Subjects; It Is The Imposition Of Ethical Dogma That Constrains The Scientist.

Those Who Say [joseph] Padilla Should Get A Civilian Trial Are Essentially Saying That If You Reject The Rules Of Civilized Nations, Like Those Inscribed In The Geneva Convention, You Therefore Deserve To Be Treated Better, Not Worse, Than Those Rules Require.

(i)t Is Simply Wrong To Confuse Cowardice With Appeasement. Cowardice Is A Failing Of Character. Appeasement Is A Failure Of Policy. Stalin Appeased Hitler When He Signed The Molotov-ribbentrop Pact. Stalin Was An Evil Character, To Be Sure. But Cowardice Really Isn't The First Word That Comes To Mind When Thinking Of Stalin ' That Word Is “sexy.” I'm Kidding, I'm Kidding.

When Activists Say We Need To Move Past The Partisan Divide, What They Mean Is: Shut Up And Get With My Program. Have You Ever Heard Anyone Say, "we Need To Get Past All Of This Partisan Squabbling And Name-calling. That's Why I'm Going To Abandon All My Objections And Agree With You"?

In Europe And America Alike, Voters Increasingly Recognize That The Benefits Of The Green Revolution Aren't Worth The Costs, Particularly When The Revolutionaries Don't Have A Clue What They're Doing.

The Gop Needs To Figure Out A Way To Become More Appealing To New Constituencies.

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.

The Mars Polar Lander Cost The Average American The Price Of Half A Cheeseburger. A Human Lander Would Cost The Average American More - Perhaps Even Ten Cheeseburgers! So Be It. That Is No Great Sacrifice.

As We All Know, The Most Effective Lies Are The Ones Sprinkled With The Most Actual Truths.