KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Charlie Sykes Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Charlie Sykes

Showing 61-70 of 72 Quotes by Charlie Sykes

I knew Buckley - he was a friend of mine - and Steve Bannon is no William F. Buckley. Buckley marginalized the kooks. Bannon empowered them.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: Empowered Friend He Knew Marginalized Mine Steve Them William

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Reagan did not have to rely on or cope with talk radio, Fox News, Breitbart, or any of the other trolls that now dominate conservative politics.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: Any Conservative Cope Did Dominate Fox Fox News News Now Other Politics Radio Reagan Rely Talk Talk Radio

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I think of John McCain as a conservative, but he is clearly not the same kind of 'conservative' as, say, Rand Paul. The word is close to losing almost all meaning.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: Almost Almost All Clearly Close Conservative He John John Mccain Kind Losing Mccain Meaning Paul Same Say Think Word I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I don't think Trump is a conservative. I think he is a man without any fixed principles. And to the extent he does have any ideology, it owes far more to European-style National Front right-wing politics than to American conservatism.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: American Any Conservatism Conservative Does Extent Far Fixed Front He Ideology Man More National Owes Politics Principles Right-Wing Than Think Trump Without I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


There was always the paranoid strain in American politics, particularly on the Right.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: Always American American Politics Paranoid Particularly Politics Right Strain

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The shock of Trumpism has made me rethink what the conservative movement was about and who our allies were and what our assumptions were.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: About Allies Assumptions Conservative Made Me Movement Our Rethink Shock Were Who

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: Alike Also Did Distinction Distinguish Folks Left Make Myself Rush Thought Tried Understood Want Were Who World I Tried

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


After 2008, I told people that conservatives were going to be invisible for a while. But, with time, our ideas would be back.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: After Back Conservatives Going Ideas Invisible Our People Time Were While Would

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Ronald Reagan believed in America as the shining city on the hill - Morning in America. But Donald Trump has a much different vision of American greatness, of nationalism - a much darker view, I think, of the world.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: America American Believed City Darker Different Donald Donald Trump Greatness Hill Morning Much Nationalism Reagan Ronald Reagan Shining Think Trump View Vision World I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.

~Charlie Sykes

Topics: Been Competition Create Displaced Explain Free Free Markets Global Harder Markets Than Wealth Who Why Workers

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Professions

Born: November 11th, 1954

Links

Find Charlie Sykes on Amazon

Related Authors

Whoops! Looks like Charlie Sykes has no related authors

Popular Authors

Robert Baden-Powell Erma Bombeck Paulo Coelho Calvin Coolidge Ruth Bader Ginsburg Elbert Hubbard John C. Maxwell Swami Vivekananda

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1920 - Ray Bradbury

1822 - George Stoneman

1832 - Julius Sterling Morton

1854 - Charles Fillmore

1862 - Claude Debussy

1891 - Jacques Lipchitz

1902 - Leni Riefenstahl

1904 - Deng Xiaoping

1908 - Henri Cartier-Bresson

1914 - Jack Dunphy

Birthdays on August 22nd
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Learning Love Power Relationship Romantic Science Space Wisdom