Michael Kinsley Quotes

Michael Kinsley is an American political journalist and commentator. Primarily active in print media as both a writer and editor, he also became known to television audiences as a co-host on Crossfire. Kinsley has been a notable participant in the mainstream media's development of online content.

✵ 9. March 1951
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Famous Michael Kinsley Quotes

“Bad principles are not a good substitute for no principles.”

Donald Trump is actually a fascist (December 9, 2016)
Context: If I’m correct that Trump actually has a governing philosophy, that’s a bad thing, not a good thing. If he actually has principles to guide him through those famous swamps he plans to drain, that’s alarming, not reassuring. Bad principles are not a good substitute for no principles. Four or eight years of bad principles may make no principles look pretty good.

“I have a saying: the scandal isn't what's illegal, the scandal is what's legal.”

As quoted on Crossfire, CNN, Nov. 15, 1990.

“A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth - some obvious truth he isn't supposed to say.”

As quoted in Commentary: The gaffer speaks, The Times, April 23, 1988.

“Conservatives are always looking for converts, whereas liberals are always looking for heretics.”

As cited by John Leo in Two Steps Ahead of the Thought Police http://books.google.com/books?id=HIQNZ-oQPX4C&pg=PA61&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Transaction Publishers, 1998, p. 61.

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