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Ann Hart Coulter is an American conservative social and political commentator, writer, syndicated columnist, and lawyer. She frequently appears on television, radio, and as a speaker at public and private events.

Born in New York City to a conservative family, Coulter was raised in New Canaan, Connecticut. She deepened her conservative interests while studying history at Cornell University, where she helped found The Cornell Review. She subsequently embarked on a career as a law clerk before rising to prominence in the 1990s as an outspoken critic of the Clinton administration. Her first book concerned the Bill Clinton impeachment, and sprang from her experience writing legal briefs for Paula Jones's attorneys, as well as columns she wrote about the cases.

Coulter has described herself as a polemicist who likes to "stir up the pot," and does not "pretend to be impartial or balanced, as broadcasters do," drawing criticism from the left, and sometimes from the right. Coulter's syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate appears in newspapers, and is featured on major conservative websites. As of 2016, Coulter has 12 best-selling books, including most recently Adios, America! and In Trump We Trust.

✵ 8. December 1961   •   Other names ان کولتر, 安·寇特, 앤 콜터
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Ann Coulter Quotes

“I'd build a wall. In fact, I'd hire illegal immigrants to build the wall. And throw out the illegals who are here. … It's cheap labor.”

Ann Coulter

Statement on illegal immigration on * The O'Reilly Factor
2006-04-13
Television
Fox News, as quoted in * Echoing Saturday Night Live skit, Coulter said U.S. should "throw out" illegal immigrants, but not before "hir<nowiki>[ing]</nowiki>" them to build Mexican border wall
Media Matters for America
2006-04-14
http://mediamatters.org/items/200604140003
2006

“They have a problem with unmarried women who think, "No, we don't need national defense, we need our birth control paid for." And why? Because single women look at the government as their husbands. "Please provide for me, please take care of me."”

Ann Coulter

2013

Women , Birth , Problem , Thinking

“The Times was rushing to assure its readers that "prominent Islamic scholars and theologians in the West say unequivocally that nothing in Islam countenances the Sept. 11 actions." (That's if you set aside Muhammad's many specific instructions to kill nonbelievers whenever possible).”

Ann Coulter

2004, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (2004)

Time

“Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.”

Ann Coulter

Hannity & Colmes (7 June 2006); later quoted in If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans (2007), "Liberal "Argument": Hissing, Scratching, and Hair-Pulling, p. 157.
2006

Idea

“Conservatives have a problem with women. For that matter, all men do.”

Ann Coulter

The Cornell Review (1984), reported in Time (April 2005) and in Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter (2006) by Joe Maguire, p. 59.
1980s-90s

Women , Men , Problem

“I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions, like the Cargo Cult of the South Pacific. Practitioners of Cargo Cult believed that manufactured products were created by ancestral spirits, and if they imitated what they had seen the white man do, they could cause airplanes to appear out of the sky, bringing valuable cargo like radios and TVs. So they constructed “airport towers” out of bamboo and “headphones” out of coconuts and waited for the airplanes to come with the cargo. It may sound silly, but in defense of the Cargo Cult, they did not wait as long for evidence supporting their theory as the Darwinists have waited for evidence supporting theirs.”

Ann Coulter

2006, Human Events interview (2006)

Religion , Support , Appearance , Waiting

“I’m pretty sure little François A-Houle does not need to travel with a bodyguard. I would like to know when this sort of violence, this sort of protest, has been inflicted upon a Muslim — who appear to be, from what I’ve read of the human rights complaints, the only protected group in Canada. I think I’ll give my speech tomorrow night in a burqa. That will protect me.”

Ann Coulter

"Organizers, not university cancelled Ann Coulter: U of O" by Matthew Pearson, in The Ottawa Citizen (24 March 2010) http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Organizers+university+cancelled+Coulter/2721580/story.html.
2010

Travel , Thinking , Appearance , Reading

“Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words abortion or tax cuts pass their lips.”

Ann Coulter

Put the tax cut in a lock box
2002-02-02
Townhall
http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2002/02/21/put_the_tax_cut_in_a_lock_box/page/full
2002

Support

“The only place Al Gore conserves energy these days is on the treadmill. I don't want to suggest that Al's getting big, but the last time I saw him on TV I thought, "That reminds me — we have to do something about saving the polar bears."
Never mind his carbon footprint — have you seen the size of Al Gore's regular footprint lately? It's almost as deep as Janet Reno's.”

Ann Coulter

"The Coming Ass Age" (21 March 2007) http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=175.
2007

Time

“I'm here, I'm not queer, and I'm not going away.”

Ann Coulter

From appearance on Lou Dobbs Tonight (8 June 2006), quoted on p. 82.
2006, Godless : The Church of Liberalism (2006)

“Israel says, quite correctly, that changing Israel’s ethnicity would change the idea of Israel. Well, changing America’s ethnicity changes the idea of America, too. Show me in a straight line why we can’t do what Israel does. Is Israel special? For some of us, America is special, too.”

Ann Coulter

2015, Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (2015)

Idea , Change

“If Gore had been elected president, right now he would just be finding that last lesbian quadriplegic for the Special Forces team.”

Ann Coulter

"Fall Fashion Preview: Cowboy Boots In, Flip-Flops Out" (14 October 2004) http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=15519.
2004

“Edwards is like a politician who keeps announcing that he will not use his opponent's criminal record for partisan political advantage.
Manifestly, I was not making fun of their son's death; I was making fun of John Edwards' incredibly creepy habit of invoking his son's tragic death to advance his political career — a practice so repellant, it even made John Kerry queasy.
I'm a little tired of losers trying to raise campaign cash or TV ratings off of my coattails, particularly when they use their afflictions or bereavement schedules to try to silence the opposition.”

Ann Coulter

"That was no lady — That was my husband" (28 June 2007).
2007

Death , Silence , Affliction

“It was this idea (Be nice!) that fueled liberals' rage at Reagan when he vanquished the Soviet Union with his macho "cowboy diplomacy" that was going to get us all blown up. As the Times editorial page hysterically described Reagan's first year in office: "Mr. Reagan looked at the world through gun sights."”

Ann Coulter

Yes, he did! And now the Evil Empire is no more.
"Are videotaped beheadings covered by Geneva?" (20 September 2006) http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2006-09-20.html.
2006

World , Idea , Rage , Evil

“We were terrified that Jones would settle. It was contrary to our purpose of bringing down the president.”

Ann Coulter

On her desire to insure that Bill Clinton would be impeached, as quoted in Uncovering Clinton : A Reporter's Story (1998) by Michael Isikoff, p. 183.
1980s-90s

“We've been waiting 30 years to end the lunacy of nine demigods on the Supreme Court deciding every burning social issue of the day for us, loyal subjects in a judicial theocracy. We don't want someone who will decide those issues for us — but decide them "our" way. If we did, a White House bureaucrat with good horse sense might be just the ticket.”

Ann Coulter

2005

Way , Sense , Waiting , Horse

“Vester: You say you'd rather not talk to liberals at all?
Coulter: I think a baseball bat is the most effective way these days.”

Ann Coulter

Exchange on DaySide with Linda Vester on FOX News (6 October 2004) as quoted in "Ann Coulter on tour: "I think a baseball bat is the most effective way these days" to talk to liberals" (7 October 2004) http://mediamatters.org/research/200410070004.
2004

Way , Thinking

“Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.”

Ann Coulter

Source: 2002, Slander : Liberal Lies About the American Right (2002), p. 194.

Hate , Religion

“Canada has become trouble recently … It’s always the worst Americans who go there … We could have taken them over so easy. But I only want the western part, with the ski areas, the cowboys, and the right wingers. They’re the only good parts of Canada.”

Ann Coulter

As quoted in I Hate Ann Coulter! (2006) by Unanimous, p. 66.
2006

Parting

“A couple alleged males attempted to sucker punch a 100-pound woman and missed. And they ended up with their faces smashed in and spending the night in the Pima County Jail, where I'm sure — being good liberals — their views on gay marriage will serve them well.”

Ann Coulter

On two protestors who threw pies at her during a speech, on The Sean Hannity Show (22 October 2004).
2004

Marriage , Night

“We've gone from a representative democracy to a monarchy, and the most appalling thing is – even conservatives just hope like the dickens the next king is a good one.”

Ann Coulter

Who was the 2nd choice?
2005-10-20
Townhall
http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2005/10/20/who_was_the_2nd_choice/page/full/
2005

Hope , Democracy

“If you don't want to be killed by ISIS, don't go to Syria. If you don't want to be killed by a Mexican, there's nothing I can tell you.”

Ann Coulter

2015-05-26
America With Jorge Ramos
TV
http://mediamatters.org/embed/clips/2015/05/27/40128/fusion-america-20150526-coulter
2015

“Since liberals never print retractions, they can say anything. What they said in the past is always deemed inadmissible and unfair to quote.”

Ann Coulter

Source: 2004, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (2004), p. 66.

Quotes , Past

“It can be difficult to discuss America’s immigration policies when it’s considered racist merely to say, ‘We liked America the way it was.”

Ann Coulter

2015, Adios, America: The Left's Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole (2015)

Way

“I don't believe Hurricane Harvey is God's punishment for Houston electing a lesbian mayor. But that is more credible than "climate change."”

Ann Coulter

https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/902373016818126849 (August 30, 2017)
2017

God , Change

“For six years, the Bush administration has kept America safe from another terrorist attack, allowing the Democrats to claim that the war on terrorism is a fraud, a "bumper sticker," a sneaky ploy by a power-mad president to create an apocryphal enemy so he could spy on innocent librarians in Wisconsin. And that's the view of the moderate Democrats. The rest of them think Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks.”

Ann Coulter

"The 'Bumper Sticker' That Blows Up" (18 July 2007) http://anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=194.
2007

War , Fraud , Thinking , Madness

“One hundred percent of terrorist attacks on commercial airlines based in America for 20 years have been committed by Muslims. When there is a 100 percent chance, it ceases to be a profile. It's called a 'description of the suspect.”

Ann Coulter

Source: 2003, Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (2003), p. 265

Chance

“The nonsense about President Obama being a Muslim has got to stop. I rise to defend him from this absurd accusation by pointing out that he is obviously an atheist.”

Ann Coulter

"Obama Is Not A Muslim" (1 September 2010) http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38812.
2010

“You know, OK, I made a few jokes — and they killed 3000 Americans. Fair trade.”

Ann Coulter

In response to request by a representative of Muslims for America to stop using the term "raghead" as detrimental to the cause of moderation, alienating to all Muslims and angering many, at a CPAC Conference Q&A (10 February 2006) http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2200579605&topic=218.
2006

“Now our forces are killing lots of al-Qaida jihadists, preventing another terrorist attack on U. S. soil, and giving democracy in Iraq a chance — and Democrats say we are "losing" this war. I think that's a direct quote from their leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, but it may have been the Osama bin Laden tape released this week. I always get those two confused.
OK, they knew what Petraeus was going to say. But we knew what the Democrats were going to say. If liberals are not traitors, their only fallback argument at this point is that they're really stupid.”

Ann Coulter

"From the halls of Malibu to the Shores of Kennedy" (12 September 2007) http://anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=207.
2007

War , Stupidity , Quotes , Democracy

“While consistently rooting against America, liberals have used a fictional event forged of their own hysteria — "McCarthyism" — to prevent Americans from ever asking the simple question: Do liberals love their country?”

Ann Coulter

2003, Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (2003)

Love , Question , Country

“After the World Trade Center was bombed by Islamic fundamentalists in 1993, the country quickly chalked it up to a zany one-time attack and five minutes later decided we were all safe again. We weren't. We aren't now. They will strike again. Perhaps they will wait another eight years. But perhaps not.
The enemy is in this country right now. And any terrorists who are not already here are free to immigrate.”

Ann Coulter

"Future widows of America: Write your congressman" in Jewish World Review (28 September 2001) http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter092801.asp.
2001

World , Time , Waiting , Country

“The greatest threat to the war on terrorism isn't the Islamic insurgency — our military can handle the savages. It's traitorous liberals trying to lose the war at home.”

Ann Coulter

"When Will NYT Reveal One of al Qaeda's Secret Programs?" http://humanevents.com/2006/06/28/when-will-nyt-reveal-one-of-al-qaedas-secret-programs/ (28 June 2006).
2006

War , Home

“Victim of a crime? Thank a single mother.”

Ann Coulter

Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America (2009), p. 33
2009

“Grove quotes me – and the quotes are things I actually said! That is stunningly rare. … What liberals normally do in response to a principled conservative argument is lie, manufacture quotes, and call conservatives names – as some dissolute drunk did in the New York Post a few days later. The left's logic deficit is a topic I explore thoroughly in my book. Buy it and prepare to have your blood run hot.
Oh, and for the record, Howard Kurtz is wrong about the reason I call him the Liberal Ombudsman for Liberal Media Bias in my book – it was not the "girly-boy" quote. Paradoxically, that is the ONLY time Kurtz has quoted me accurately.”

Ann Coulter

Mentioning comments by journalist Howard Kurtz about his reporting of Coulter calling editors at National Review Online "girly-boys".
2002, Ann Coulter : Left Is 'out to Destroy the Country' (2002)

Lie , Books , Quotes , Boy

“If Imus had called me a "towheaded ho" or Al Sharpton a "nappy-headed ho," it would be what's known as "funny." (And if he called Anna Nicole Smith a "flaxen-headed ho," it would be "absolutely accurate.") But he attacked the looks and morals of utterly innocent women, who had done nothing to inject themselves into public debate.
Imus should apologize to the Rutgers women — and those women alone — send them flowers, and stop kissing Al Sharpton's ring.
This wasn't an insult to all mankind, and certainly not an insult to Al Sharpton. Now, if Imus had called the basketball players "fat, race-baiting black men with clownish hairstyles," well, then perhaps Sharpton would be owed an apology.”

Ann Coulter

"Ho Ho Ho, Merry Imus!" (11 April 2007).
2007

Women , Men , Flowers , Kiss

“I really liked Deadheads and the whole Dead concert scene: the tailgating, the tie-dye uniforms, the camaraderie — it was like NASCAR for potheads.”

Ann Coulter

Interview in Jambands (23 June 2006).
2006

Dead

“I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't.”

Ann Coulter

As quoted in TV Guide (August 1997), and Soulless: Ann Coulter and the Right-Wing Church of Hate (2006) by Susan Estrich, p. 28.
1980s-90s

Men

“Most devastating for the left as a cohesive political movement was the collapse of their beloved Soviet Union. For decades the Great Issue uniting various forces on the left, from proclaimed communists to soft anti-communists, was the socialist "ideal." … Apart from global warming — coming in a thousand years to a planet near you! — the left's only remaining cause is abortion. For many Democrats, Roe v. Wade is the essence of politics.”

Ann Coulter

Source: 2002, Slander : Liberal Lies About the American Right (2002), p. 252; Liberals' only remaining big issue is abortion because of their beloved sexual revolution. That's their cause: Spreading anarchy and polymorphous perversity. Abortion permits that.

“This Bruce Jenner still has Y chromosomes in every cell of his body. Do not tell me he is a girl. And I’ve checked with all my gay friends and they all say if he didn’t cut it off, he’s still a man.”

Ann Coulter

2015-06-02
Coulter: Jenner Transgender Behavior a ‘Mental Illness,’ Shouldn’t Be Celebrated
http://www.breitbart.com/video/2015/06/03/coulter-jenner-transgender-behavior-a-mental-illness-shouldnt-be-celebrated/
2015

Girl

“The only thing I'll say in defense of basically the entire conservative media is that, except for a few talk radio hosts, my twitter feed, I guess Brietbart, and Daily Caller is everyone seems to dislike Richard Spencer. He is you know our equivalent of Black Lives Matter. Apparently you know a gay showboater who just wants lots of media attention.”

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter: Charlottesville Ralliers Could Have Been ‘Little Old Ladies’ Listening To ‘Civil War Buffs’
2017-08-17
Right Wing Watch
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/ann-coulter-charlottesville-ralliers-could-have-been-little-old-ladies-listening-to-civil-war-buffs/
2017

“The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.”

Ann Coulter

"Bush's America: 100 Percent Al-Qaida Free Since 2001" (11 June 2008) http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=256.
2008

History

“I think our motto should be, post-9-11, "raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences."”

Ann Coulter

Comments at a CPAC Conference (10 February 2006), as quoted in * Max Blumenthal
Ann Coulter at CPAC on "Ragheads" and Assassinating Bill Clinton (and Dr. Bill Frist's Diagnosis)
The Huffington Post
2006-02-10
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/ann-coulter-at-cpac-on-r_b_15434.html
2006

Thinking

“The only standard journalists respect is: Will this story promote the left-wing agenda?”

Ann Coulter

2004, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (2004)

“We'll drive off the side of that bridge when we come to it, Senator Kennedy.”

Ann Coulter

Source: 2004, How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (2004), p. 147.

“The Democrats are giving aid and comfort to the enemy for no purpose other than giving aid and comfort to the enemy. There is no plausible explanation for the Democrats' behavior other than that they long to see U. S. troops shot, humiliated, and driven from the field of battle. They fill the airwaves with treason, but when called to vote on withdrawing troops, disavow their own public statements. These people are not only traitors, they are gutless traitors.”

Ann Coulter

New Idea for Abortion Party: Aid the Enemy (23 November 2005).
2005

People , Behavior

“Don't want terrorism in US? Stop importing Muslims!”

Ann Coulter

As quoted in Ann Coulter on Paris Attack: 'Donald Trump Was Elected President Tonight' http://www.mediaite.com/online/ann-coulter-on-paris-attack-donald-trump-was-elected-president-tonight/ by Josh Feldman, Mediaite.com (13 November 2015)
2015

“Liberals' only remaining big issue is abortion because of their beloved sexual revolution. That's their cause: Spreading anarchy and polymorphous perversity. Abortion permits that.”

Ann Coulter

2002, Ann Coulter : Left Is 'out to Destroy the Country' (2002)

“Out of respect for my gay male readers, I'll resist the temptation to characterize this ruling as "shoving gay marriage down our throats."”

Ann Coulter

Massachusetts Supreme Court abolishes capitalism!
2003-12-04
Townhall
http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2003/12/04/massachusetts_supreme_court_abolishes_capitalism!/page/full/
2003

Marriage

“Her children knew she's sleeping with all these men. That just seems to me, it's the definition of "not a good mother." … Is everyone just saying here that it's okay to ostentatiously have premarital sex in front of your children? … [Diana is] an ordinary and pathetic and confessional — I've never had bulimia! I've never had an affair! I've never had a divorce! So I don't think she's better than I am.”

Ann Coulter

Statement on MSNBC (19 September 1997) as quoted in "The Wit and Wisdom (NOT) of Ann Coulter" (4 September 2004) http://www.americanpolitics.com/20020205Coulter.html.
1980s-90s

Men , Children , Sex , Thinking