A Quote by James Q. Wilson

There are no more liberals Theyve all been mugged.

James Q. Wilson

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James Q. Wilson
American - Politician
May 27, 1931 - March 2, 2012

There are no more liberals They've all been mugged.

James Q. Wilson

There aren't any liberals left in New York. They've all been mugged by now.

James Q. Wilson

A neoconservative is a liberal who's been mugged by reality. A neoliberal is a liberal who's been mugged by reality but has refused to press charges.

Irving Kristol

During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.

Bernhard Goetz

Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.

Donald Barthelme

Ive been lucky with my stepkids. They were little when we met so theyve always accepted me. Having a stepfamily is so much more common these days and its nice to report I dont have a lot of problems.

Rick Stein

A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet.

Frank Rizzo

Firstly, I think the values that underpin all liberals, frankly - classical liberals, all liberals - of respect for the individual and freedom are worth fighting for.

Zanny Minton Beddoes

My husband and Charlie Sheen played Little League together. Theyve always been best friends.

Heather Langenkamp

Liberals think their campaign against Wal-Mart is a way of introducing the subject of class into America's political argument, and they are more correct than they understand. Their campaign is liberalism as condescension. It is a philosophic repugnance toward markets, because consumer sovereignty results in the masses making messes. Liberals, aghast, see the choices Americans make with their dollars and their ballots and announce - yes, announce - that Americans are sorely in need of more supervision by... liberals.

George Will

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

Stockwell Day

Fox News seems much more conservative than it is because no other television network over the past half-century has been anything but decidedly liberal. When the media norm is liberal, liberals equate liberalism with objectivity and deviations from it as bias, just as liberals preach tolerance toward all ideas - except conservative ones. Their self-delusion is surreal.

David Limbaugh

A big budget studio film is slower, theyve got so much to create around you. Everything is more complicated.

Iain Glen

I'm just imagining some of [Mark Lilla] fellow liberals being rather angry at you saying such a thing [that Democrats and liberals, more generally, lost a lot of political capital ].