Mike Royko Quotes

It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.

Mike Royko

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• I consider myself not a conservative libertarian but a radical '60s libertarian.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• People like to pigeonhole you. It's easier.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
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• With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
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• You've got to have a villain and they'll always make me a villain. I'm used to it – it makes me work harder and it makes me fight harder.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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• Having long hair has allowed me to enter orthodox or religiously conservative situations with slightly more ease.

  

  Hailey Gates
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• The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one.

  

  Malcolm Campbell
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• I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

  

  Kate Smith
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• I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• I think really that you shouldn't run as a conservative if you're not.

  

  Rand Paul
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• Is this the situation in the modern Conservative party? That women should be seen and not heard?

  

  Harriet Harman
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• I have always been a reserved and conservative person.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
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• I am a conservative type of person, so sometimes when I'm chilling with myself, people always come ask me, 'What's wrong with you? What are you wondering about?'

  

  Wayne Wonder
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• If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you say is hateful.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
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• It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

  

  Karen Bass
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• If you're looking at substance rather than whether it's an R or D after his name, manifestly, if he's our candidate , then Hillary's gonna be our girl, Sean, because she's more conservative than he is. I think she would be stronger on the war on terrorism. I absolutely believe that. … I will campaign for her if it's McCain.

  

  Ann Coulter
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• This oppressor/oppressed cultural Marxist thing is you're an authentic woman and an authentic black even only if you support liberal causes. If you are a woman, if you are a Hispanic, if you are black, and you abide by a value system that believes in limited government and constitutional principles, you are an apostate to the utopian ideals of the left, and you are not protected, and you are pilloried, and that is why I became a conservative because I thought it was fundamentally unfair, fundamentally un-American.

  

  Andrew Breitbart
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• Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.

  

  Gail Collins
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• I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

  

  Lake Bell
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• He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
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• I have this great fear of Mexico City. I won't go to Mexico City unless someone meets me at the airport and is with me. I just feel very vulnerable there.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
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• It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand.

  

  Mike Royko
  • Conservative
  • Easier
  • Fingers