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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

“Enjoy most: the prospect of having an impact on the public debate. Irritating liberals is a close second.”

Ann Coulter

Asked "What do you enjoy most about your life as a best-selling author and columnist?"
2006, Human Events interview (2006)

“Only in the case of immigration is the public systematically lied to from every major news outlet. The media lie about everything, but immigration constitutes their finest hour of collective lying.”

Ann Coulter

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

Lie , Lying

“Now that the provost has instructed me on the criminal speech laws he apparently believes I have a proclivity (to break), despite knowing nothing about my speech, I see that he is guilty of promoting hatred against an identifiable group: conservatives. The provost simply believes and is publicizing his belief that conservatives are more likely to commit hate crimes in their speeches. Not only does this promote hatred against conservatives, but it promotes violence against conservatives.”

Ann Coulter

Response to a letter from University of Ottawa provost Francois Houle to use "restraint, respect and consideration" in her planned address there (21 March 2010), as quoted in "Coulter: Canadian U Provost Guilty of Hate Crimes" at Newsmax (23 March 2010) http://newsmax.com/InsideCover/coulter-canada-provost-hate/2010/03/23/id/353652.
2010

Hate , Law

“Everything that seems like a disability with Trump always turns out to be an advantage. If we were in the laboratory, designing the perfect presidential candidate, it’s unlikely we would have produced a tasteless, publicity‐seeking, coarse, billionaire, reality TV star. Ha! Look at how wrong we were. It turns out, that is exactly what we needed.”

Ann Coulter

2016, In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! (2016)

Star , Reality , Perfection

“As we have learned from ObamaCare, young people are not considered adults until age 26, at which point they are finally forced to get off their parents' health care plans. The old motto was "Old enough to fight, old enough to vote." The new motto is: "Not old enough to buy your own health insurance, not old enough to vote."”

Ann Coulter

"Repeal the 26th Amendment!" (10 November 2010) http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/article.cgi?article=395.
2010

People , Health , Age , Parent

“Liberals don't read books – they don't read anything … That's why they're liberals. They watch TV, absorb the propaganda, and vote on the basis of urges.”

Ann Coulter

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

Books , Reading

“If those kids had been carrying guns they would have gunned down this one gunman. … Don't pray. Learn to use guns.”

Ann Coulter

On Heath High School shooting where a teenaged gunman killed 3 students at a prayer meeting at the school, on Politically Incorrect (18 December 1997).
1980s-90s

Learning

“Though Rather is congenitally bad – an admirable heir to Walter Cronkite and his special form of treasonous broadcasting – more insidious are certain chirpy girl-next-door morning TV hosts who characterize the beliefs of ordinary middle-class Americans in terms that would make Goebbels blush.”

Ann Coulter

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

Girl

“Well, Milo learned HIS lesson. Pederasty acceptable only for refugees and illegals. Then libs will support you.”

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter accuses refugees and illegal immigrants of paedophilia in wake of Milo Yiannopoulos scandal
2017-02-21
The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ann-coulter-milo-yiannopoulos-refugees-illegal-immigrants-pederasty-twitter-boys-pedophiles-cpac-a7591496.html
2017

Support , Learning

“If you want a conservative country, you need a conservative populace. Immigration is changing the country, and there will be no changing it back. If you don’t understand that, you are the enemy of any conservative undertaking.”

Ann Coulter

2016, In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! (2016)

Understanding , Change , Country

“"McCarthyism" means pointing out positions taken by liberals that are unpopular with the American people. As former President Bush said, "Liberals do not like me talking about liberals." The reason they sob about the dark night of fascism under McCarthy is to prevent Americans from ever noticing that liberals consistently attack their own country.”

Ann Coulter

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

People , Night , Country

“The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.”

Ann Coulter

Online promotional material (6 June 2006).
2006

Religion

“You don't want the Republicans in power, does that mean you want a dictatorship, gay boy?”

Ann Coulter

In response to a student's question: "You don't want the Democrats in power, so does that mean you want a dictatorship?"; after her address "Liberals Are Wrong About Everything" at Indiana University (23 February 2006).
2006

Boy

“Democrats denounce and abuse white people, and Republicans act embarrassed about having whites vote for them.”

Ann Coulter

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

People

“Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president.”

Ann Coulter

Original version of "Republicans, Bloggers And Gays, Oh My!" (23 February 2005) http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-local/printer_friendly.cgi?article=43; Universal Press Syndicate edited http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=6680 this line for distribution, changing the phrase "that old Arab Helen Thomas" to "that dyspeptic, old Helen Thomas."
2005

Housing

“I don't know if he's gay. But Al Gore — total fag.”

Ann Coulter

Response to Chris Matthews on * Hardball
2006-07-26
Television
MSNBC as to why she said Bill Clinton "show[s] some level of latent homosexuality" on * The Big Idea
2006-07-25
Television
CNBC, as quoted in * On MSNBC, Coulter called Gore a "total fag," while Matthews said "we'd love to have her back"
Media Matters for America
2006-07-27
http://mediamatters.org/items/200607280001
2006

“On the day of the Arizona massacre, Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva blamed the "Palin express." The father of Gabrielle Giffords, one of the victims, blamed "the whole Tea Party." The sheriff of Pima County, Clarence Dupnik, who had failed to lock Loughner up despite repeated arrests and other contacts, blamed "the vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business."”

Ann Coulter

"Mud Libel" (19 January 2011) http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2011/01/19/mud_libel/page/full/.
2011

People , Business , Tea

“Liberals chose Man. Conservatives chose God.”

Ann Coulter

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

God

“If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.”

Ann Coulter

interview with New York Observer 2007-10-02, quoted in * Coulter: "If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president"
Media Matters for America
2007-10-04
http://mediamatters.org/research/200710040011
2007

Women , Dreams , Way , Thinking

“So for now I'd like gays to just be part of conservatism, just like women are, just like blacks are, without a special designation.”

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter on GOProud at CPAC 2011 Question & Answer Session (Sep 16, 2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DHqEm0bV38.
2011

Women , Parting

“Brain research in the last five years at Dartmouth and elsewhere has shown that human brains are not fully developed until age 25 and are particularly deficient in their frontal lobes, which control decision-making, rational thinking, judgment, the ability to plan ahead and to resist impulses. Unfortunately, we didn't know that in 1971. Those of you who have made it to age 26 without dying in a stupid drinking game — and I think congratulations are in order, by the way — understand how insane it is to allow young people to vote.”

Ann Coulter

"Repeal the 26th Amendment!" (10 November 2010).
2010

People , Age , Stupidity , Way

“When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty. We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.”

Ann Coulter

Remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (25 February 2002) http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/031104A.shtml.
2002

Death , People , Penalty

“I was going to have a few comments on the other Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, but it turns out you have to go into rehab if you use the word "faggot", so I — so kind of an impasse — can't really talk about Edwards.”

Ann Coulter

Speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, Washington, DC (2 March 2007), as quoted in "Coulter's Slur Against Edwards Stirs Outrage" at WNBC (4 March 2007) http://www.wnbc.com/politics/11168421/detail.html?rss=ny&psp=news.
2007

“Would that it were so! … That the American military were targeting journalists.”

Ann Coulter

Comments on * Kudlow & Cramer
2005-02-07
Television
CNBC, as quoted in * Coulter: "Would that it were so! … That the American military were targeting journalists."
Media Matters for America
2005-02-10
http://mediamatters.org/research/200502100010
2005

“By unapologetically opposing the transformation of America into a Third World country, the GOP would sweep the white vote–once white people recovered from the shock of any candidate asking for their vote. Why should Republicans be ashamed of getting white votes? How about the party work on getting more of them?”

Ann Coulter

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

People , World , Country

“In fairness to Edwards, asking a trial lawyer to name his favorite moral leader is like asking the president of Iran to name his favorite Jew. (Answer: George Soros.)
If you're keeping score, that's two major religions the Democrats lack a working knowledge of — Christianity and Islam.”

Ann Coulter

No Wonder They're Afraid of Brit Hume" (3 May 2007).
2007

Religion , Knowledge

“Liberals are always frightened by diversity of opinion. They think a fair way to decide passionately contested issues is for the federal government to issue uncompromising edicts giving liberals everything they want, and then to suppress all criticism of the edicts. The fascistic order, completely supplanting all democratic processes, is then known as a victory for "choice." As the Grand Inquisitor said in The Brothers Karamazov: "They have vanquished freedom and have done so to make men happy."
That's what the Supreme Court did in Roe vs. Wade, and has repeatedly done in periodic codicils to its original edict. Just this past term, in Stenberg vs. Carhart, the court expanded the apocryphal abortion right to an all-new right to stick a fork in the head of a half-born baby. The first lunacy keeps being rewritten to give abortion enthusiasts everything they could possibly want.”

Ann Coulter

2000

Men , Way , Thinking , Freedom

“America should be choosing immigrants the way the New England Patriots choose players. They don’t have a lottery system for their draft picks. No one guilts them into taking a blind kid with one leg over an All American–much less the blind kid’s cousin, to keep him company.”

Ann Coulter

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

Way

“As for catching Osama, it's irrelevant. Things are going swimmingly in Afghanistan.”

Ann Coulter

Responding to assertions about problems with Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan on Hannity & Colmes (24 August 2006) - video http://movies.crooksandliars.com/H-C-Coulter-crie.mov
2006

“Gays are national conservatives.”

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter on GOProud at CPAC 2011 Question & Answer Session (Sep 16, 2012) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DHqEm0bV38.
2011

“The main difference between decapitations in Syria and Mexico is that Mexicans also behead women, children, and innocent bystanders. In addition to pioneering videotaped beheadings, Mexicans specialize in corpse desecration, burning people alive, rolling human heads onto packed nightclub dance floors, dissolving bodies in acid, and hanging mutilated bodies from bridges. Why are the media obsessed with ISIS’s beheadings but not the more frequent head-chopping right next door?”

Ann Coulter

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

Women , Children , People , Dance

“All the Democrats are for higher taxes. All of them are in favor of Hillary's socialist health-care plan. All of them are for higher pay for teachers and nurses — and no pay at all for anyone in the pharmaceutical or oil industries, especially Halliburton executives, who should be sent to Guantánamo. All the Democrats believe the way to strike fear in the hearts of the terrorists is for the federal government to invest heavily in windmills.
All the Democrats oppose the war. And all the Democrats who took a position on the war before it began were for it, but now believe that everything Bush did from that moment forward has been bad! bad! bad! … Finally, all the candidates are willing to sell out any of these other issues in service of the one burning desire of all Democrats: abortion on demand. If they could just figure out a way to abort babies using solar power, that's all we'd ever hear about.”

Ann Coulter

"What happened to your queer party-friends?" (22 January 2004) http://townhall.com/columnists/anncoulter/2004/01/22/what_happened_to_your_queer_party-friends/page/full/ also in How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must), p. 49.
2004

War , Health , Fear , Way

“Perhaps we could put aside our national, ongoing, post-9/11 Muslim butt-kissing contest and get on with the business at hand: Bombing Syria back to the stone age and then permanently disarming Iran.”

Ann Coulter

"Muslim Bites Dog" (15 February 2006).
2006

Age , Business , Kiss

“I have to say I'm all for public flogging. One type of criminal that a public humiliation might work particularly well with are the juvenile delinquents, a lot of whom consider it a badge of honor to be sent to juvenile detention. And it might not be such a cool thing in the 'hood' to be flogged publicly.”

Ann Coulter

Commentary on MSNBC (22 March 1997), as quoted in "The Wisdom of Ann Coulter" in The Washington Monthly (October 2001).
1980s-90s

“Gays have got to be pro-life. As soon as they find the gay gene, guess who the liberal yuppies are going to start aborting.”

Ann Coulter

Ann Coulter On A List: Dallas: ‘Liberal Yuppies’ Would Abort Gay Babies (December 8th, 2011) http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ann-coulter-on-a-list-dallas-liberal-yuppies-would-abort-gay-babies/.
2011

Life

“My libertarian friends are probably getting a little upset now but I think that's because they never appreciate the benefits of local fascism.”

Ann Coulter

Commentary on MSNBC (8 February 1997).
1980s-90s

Thinking

“In anticipation of their surrender strategy becoming substantially less popular in the wake of another terrorist attack, the Democrats are all claiming that the threat of terrorism was nonexistent — notwithstanding 9/11, the Cole bombing, the bombing of our embassies, the bombing of the World Trade Center, the Achille Lauro, etc. etc.”

Ann Coulter

until George Bush invaded Iraq.
"The 'Bumper Sticker' That Blows Up" (18 July 2007).
2007

World

“Being nice to people is, in fact, one of the incidental tenets of Christianity (as opposed to other religions whose tenets are more along the lines of "kill everyone who doesn't smell bad and doesn't answer to the name Mohammed").”

Ann Coulter

2004

People , Religion

“ISIS is not at our doorstep. Illegal immigrants are not only at our doorstep, but millions of them are already through the door, murdering far more Americans than ISIS ever will.”

Ann Coulter

2015-02-25
World Net Daily
TV
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/05/27/immigrants-are-more-dangerous-than-isis-and-10/203769
2015

“Between issuing laws prohibiting discrimination against transgendered individuals and running up a $38 billion deficit, the California Legislature mandated a three-week immersion course in Islam for all seventh-graders.”

Ann Coulter

It's the winter solstice, Charlie Brown!
2003-09-25
JewishWorldNews
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/coulter092503.asp
2003

Law

“if you pass amnesty, that's it. It's over. Then we organize the death squads for the people who wrecked America.”

Ann Coulter

to Republicans who support immigration reform * 2014-03-08
2014 Conservative Political Action Conference
CSPAN
TV
http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/05/27/immigrants-are-more-dangerous-than-isis-and-10/203769
2014

Death , People

“Like the Democrats, Playboy just wants to liberate women to behave like pigs, have sex without consequences, prance about naked, and abort children.”

Ann Coulter

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

Women , Children , Sex

“Whenever a liberal begins a statement with "I don't know which is more frightening," you know the answer is going to be pretty clear.”

Ann Coulter

Source: 2003, Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (2003), p. 6.

“Trump won because he was forcing the media and politicians to talk about real problems facing the country, not recycling the same bromides the GOP has been pushing for the past thirty years. Those may be okay ideas for another time, but not when the country is about to be permanently transformed into a new country, know as "California" where all those zippy Republican ideas have less chance of becoming law than the wish list of the Wicca online community.”

Ann Coulter

2016, In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome! (2016)

Law , Communication , Idea , Problem

“True, Reagan tied with Carter for the youth vote in 1980 and stole younger voters from Mondale in 1984, but other than that, young voters have consistently embarrassed themselves. Of course, back when Reagan was running for president, young voters consisted of the one slice of the population completely uninfected by the Worst Generation. Today's youth are the infantilized, pampered, bicycle-helmeted children of the Worst Generation. They foisted this jug-eared, European socialist on us and now they must be punished. Voters aged 18 to 29 years old comprised nearly a fifth of the voting population in 2008 and they voted overwhelmingly for Obama, 66 percent to 31 percent.”

Ann Coulter

"Repeal the 26th Amendment!" (10 November 2010).
2010

Children , Youth , Age

“Khizr Khan, the Muslim "Gold Star Father" who harangued Americans at the Democratic National Convention, with a mute, hijab-wearing wife at his side, is just another in a long string of human shields liberals send out to defend their heinous policies. … Does anyone know what Khan thinks of gays? How about miniskirts? Alcohol? Because I gather we're going to have to turn all our policies over to him, too. What have you sacrificed, Barney Frank??”

Ann Coulter

The Wrath of Khan http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2016-08-03.html (August 3, 2016)
2016

Alcohol , Star , Thinking

“Oh, and just one more point that a lot of Americans don’t know. We’re so used to, ‘Oh colonialism,’ no, the Boers, the ones who are there, were there before the Zulus, they got there first. The Zulus came down like a hundred years later. I mean we are witnessing a straight out genocide.”

Ann Coulter

Coulter on South African ‘Genocide’: ‘No One Under Fifty Is Getting News from the Mainstream Media Anymore’
2018-04-05
Brietbart News
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/04/05/ann-coulter-south-african-genocide-white-farmers-breitbart-news-town-hall/
2018

“In 1960, whites were 90 percent of the country. The Census Bureau recently estimated that whites already account for less than two-thirds of the population and will be a minority by 2050. Other estimates put that day much sooner. One may assume the new majority will not be such compassionate overlords as the white majority has been. If this sort of drastic change were legally imposed on any group other than white Americans, it would be called genocide. Yet whites are called racists merely for mentioning the fact that current immigration law is intentionally designed to reduce their percentage in the population.”

Ann Coulter

"Bush's America : Roach Motel" (6 June 2007) http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21029.
2007

Law , Change , Country

“Maybe we could fight the war a little harder and not keep responding to Amnesty International… I don't think we even need more troops. I think we need to be less worried about civilian casualties. I mean, are the terrorists—are Islamic terrorists a more frightening enemy than the Nazis war machine? I don't think so. Fanatics can be stopped. Japanese kamikaze bombers—you can stop them by bombing their society. We killed more people in two nights over Hamburg than we have in the entire course of the Iraq war. … You can destroy the fighting spirit of fanatics. We've done it before. We know how to do it. And it's not by fighting a clean little hygienic war. … That was not a clean, hygienic war, World War Two. We killed a lot of civilians, and we crushed the Nazi war machine. And the idea that Nazism, which was tied to a civilized culture, was less of a threat than the Koran, tied to a Stone Age culture, I think is preposterous! If we want to win this war, we absolutely could. And I think we've been too nice so far. … We have liberals in this country screaming bloody murder about how we treat terrorists captured who are at Guantanamo, whether Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is being water-boarded… If this is a country that is worried about that—and I don't think it is—then we may as well give up right now. … Democracies don't like to go to war, so we're going to have to wrap it up quickly and destroy the fighting spirit of the fanatics.”

Ann Coulter

Hardball with Chris Matthews (26 June 2007) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60xDmowdTCA
2007

War , People , Age , World

“While taking the "best of early Chinese and Cuban socialism" -- which one assumes would exclude the forced abortions, imprisonment for homosexuals and forced labor”

Ann Coulter

Kwanzaa: A Holiday From the FBI
2005-12-30
Real Clear Politics
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-12_30_05_AC.html
2005