Jonah Goldberg

“The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.”

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

“We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.”

“You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free rather than put one poor, wrongly accused accountant in prison. And so my only point on that is that it should open up an argument. It should not sort of settle one, because nobody disagrees with it.”

“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!”

“Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.”

“One of the things that really drove me crazy was the way in which college kids, in particular, are educated to think that ideology is dangerous and bad.”

“If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.”

“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.”

“You know those Navy SEALs, they weren't Democrats and Republicans. They were just doing what was best for America. Wouldn't that be a great country if all of you Americans were just like that? You followed orders, you marched in step and you followed my agenda.”

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

“I would also say Barack Obama has spent much, much, much, much more money than the Republicans.”