Matthew Continetti famous quotes

Persecution means an attempt to drive out, attempt to subjugate, and there are various ways that that can be done. Sarah Palin's opponents and her critics would like to see her leave the public square by insulting, degrading, demeaning, abusing and ridiculing her, and - by pretending that she has nothing to say.
-- Matthew Continetti

#Mean #Squares #Insulting

The realities of the modern global economy require government to play a substantial role in ensuring the national and economic security of the people.
-- Matthew Continetti

#Reality #Government #Play

The Beltway is waking up to the realities of Prsident Obam's budget plan, which taxes, spends, and borrows as far as the eye can see.
-- Matthew Continetti

#Eye #Reality #Waking

Something peculiar has happened. As I write, none of the Republican candidates for Senate has become a public embarrassment. On the contrary: For the first time in a decade, it is the Democratic candidates, not the Republican ones, who are fodder for late-night comics. That the Democrats are committing gaffes and causing scandals at a higher rate than Republicans not only may be decisive in the battle for the Senate. It could signal a change in our politics at large.
-- Matthew Continetti

#Writing #Night #Battle

There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates have performed better than they have in years. For the moment, today, as you read this, the Democratic candidates are the jokes.
-- Matthew Continetti

#Years #Today #October

In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how much to give back to the people.
-- Matthew Continetti

#Government #Giving #Imagination

I think that conservatism as we understand it is coming under great strain during the era of Trump.
-- Matthew Continetti

#Thinking #Conservatism

A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.

The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.

We just bought this house. It's too big. It's like 400,000 square feet, or something. We got an indoor lake and ski slope in the house! It's just too big.

It was great fun, to learn anew. You think you know enough, but you don't. You must open up; let it in. be receptive, admit what you don't know, which few are willing to do. Start from square one. Again!

Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep.

Freedom of expression does not extend to insulting the Prophets of Allah...

The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

London, dirty little pool of life