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Michael Kinsley
6 quotes
“Conservatives are always looking for converts, whereas liberals are always looking for heretics.”
Michael Kinsley (born 1951) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As cited by John Leo in Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police Transaction Publishers, 1998, p. 61.
“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth - some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say.”
Michael Kinsley (born 1951) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Commentary: The gaffer speaks, The Times, April 23, 1988.
“I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.”
Michael Kinsley (born 1951) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted on Crossfire, , Nov. 15, 1990.
“Ambition can never be naked in a political campaign, it must be clothed in deceit.”
Michael Kinsley (born 1951) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Time, Jan. 4, 2008
“Donald Trump is a fascist. ... Not in the sense of an all-purpose bad guy, but in the sense of somebody who sincerely believes that the toxic combination of strong government and strong corporations should run the nation and the world. He spent his previous career negotiating with the government on behalf of corporations; now he has switched teams. But it’s the same game.”
Michael Kinsley (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I’m correct that Trump actually has a governing philosophy, that’s a bad thing, not a good thing. If he actually has principles to guide him through those famous swamps he plans to drain, that’s alarming, not reassuring. Bad principles are not a good substitute for no principles. Four or eight years of bad principles may make no principles look pretty good.”
Michael Kinsley (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source