Robert P. George citations (45 citations)

As quoted in "Liberals Hold the Moral High Ground" https://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/liberals-hold-moral-high-ground, Intelligence Squared Debates 2017

“The phenomenon we know as political correctness thrives on people's permitting themselves to be intimidated by the people who are the enforcers of these norms and orthodoxies.”

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Robert P. George

2016, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

“Bullies are cowards and if you stand up to them they back away.”

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Robert P. George

2016, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

“I myself am not a Trump supporter, nor was I supporter of Obama or Clinton. But I had and have friends who supported all of them and who deeply disagree with me on profound moral questions. It wouldn't occur to me to banish them from my life. Argue? Yes. Banish? No.”

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Robert P. George

Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/934640293432918016 (25 November 2017) 2017

“Things always seem impossible until people do them.”

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Robert P. George

2016, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

“My father had served with great honor and courage in the Second World War. He fought for a country that was not only great, but good. It had its flaws and had some imperfections. It was the original sin of slavery which you know which we hadn't completed extirpated because we still had racial injustice in the 50s and 60s and 70s. We had only recently abolished, formally abolished segregation. So I was aware that uh, America had its flaws and defects in its history. But I also believed in the country and believed in its principles. That's the way I was brought up and so I was shocked when I found people who were just openly, vociferously anti-American, condemning not only America's sins but America itself, condemning its principles and pointing in some cases to communist regimes like Cuba as being superior.”

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Robert P. George

2016, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

“People of faith--all faiths--need to understand that everyone, including the unbeliever, has a basic human right to religious freedom.”

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Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/949813370651336707 (6 January 2018) 2018

“We have to do it for our children and for our grandchildren and so that this profound experiment in ordered liberty that was bequeathed to us by Madison and Washington and Hamilton and Adams and by Lincoln doesn't collapse. That republican government, which is ultimately what's at stake here, because a licentious people is not going to sustain republican government. We've got to make sure that republican government, government not only of the people as all government is but by and for the people doesn't perish from the Earth. If we lose it here, it's not as if it's going to be restarted somewhere else. People look to the United States to see if whether self-government can actually work and it's not going to work unless we as individual people and as members of small communities, institutions of civil society, are able to govern ourselves or are able to control our own passions and desires.”

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Robert P. George

2016, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

“Of course one could claim that the human embryo or fetus is not (yet) a human being, but that's just science-denial. Or one could claim that human beings in early developmental stages don't have dignity but that is a denial that dignity is inherent and that all humans are equal.”

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Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/941035451904856064 (13 December 2017) 2017

“[W]hat is happening is what left-wing revolutions do tend to produce, whether they’re talking about the Russian Revolution or the French Revolution, and that is students – the next generation of revolutionaries – become not only more radical than their radical professors, but they turn on them so the revolution tends to consume its own. So now people who think of themselves of impeccably left-wing will say something that offends some group of radicalized students – perhaps students that they themselves helped to radicalize – and suddenly they are the ones under fire for not conforming sufficiently to the contemporary orthodoxy.”

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Robert P. George

2016, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

“To say that I did not support the candidacy of Mr. Trump is the understatement of the year. I fiercely opposed it… I have criticized as unnecessary his policy on pausing immigration from certain countries, and I have criticized as weak to the point of meaningless his executive order on religious freedom. Indeed, I characterized it as a betrayal of his promise to reverse Obama era anti-religious-liberty policies. Donald Trump is not, and usually doesn't pretend to be, a man of strict or high principles… As a pragmatist, he doesn't have a governing philosophy — he's neither a conservative nor a liberal. On one day he'll give a speech to some evangelical pastors that makes him sound like a religious conservative, but the next day he'll lavishly praise Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who is waging an all-out war on those who stand up for traditional moral values in Canada.”

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2017, Interview with Matthew Bunson (2017)

“By this point in HIS first term President Obama already had a Nobel Prize. All President Trump has is a train station in a foreign country--not even a big country. Just a little one. Barely the size of Connecticut. Sad.”

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Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/946049282439876609 (27 December 2017) 2017

“[T]his is truly a great country. When true to ourselves we are unmatched. In the words of Irving Berlin, God bless America!”

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Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/945465303210905601 (25 December 2017) 2017

“I'm learning that a lot of people--on the left as well as the right--have a problem with Jews. It is not that they object to Jews as people. It's that they object to Jews as Jews.”

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Robert P. George

Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/964228974422515712 (15 February 2018) 2018

“Roe was a shock to me because even at 16 or 17 years old I understood that abortion was killing an unborn baby. I mean it was simple and straightforward and indeed it is simple and straightforward. We try to make this complicated, but it's simple and straightforward. You've got a new human life developing in the mother's womb and abortion is the business of killing that baby. Now, the Planned Parenthood videos have made that very graphic but you didn't actually need the videos, uh, at least I didn't need to the videos to know that. But even then we didn't think of abortion as something Democrats were for and Republicans were against. The division of the parties into a pro-abortion party and an anti-abortion party came a little later.”

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2016, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

“It takes 11 guys to change the world. It takes five to change a university. We can do this.”

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2016, Interview with Bill Kristol (2016)

“Real manliness is about self-possession, self-control, and self-sacrifice. A real man will never be a bully, he will stand up to bullies.”

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Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/911687981362286594 (23 September 2017) 2017

“One needn't be a Christian to be pro-life. Many pro-life people aren't. But a fundamental tenet of Christian faith is the profound, inherent & equal dignity and right to life of every member of the human family. That, in the end, simply cannot be squared with the pro-choice view.”

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Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/941035451904856064 (13 December 2017) 2017

“If you're a father of sons, think of a man you'd like your boys to emulate, then be that man--exemplify his selflessness, fidelity, courage.”

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Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/911713887061409797 (23 September 2017) 2017

“Anti-Semitism in Sweden (and more broadly in Europe) is no trivial matter: A 2013 study showed that 51 percent of anti-Semitic incidents in Sweden were attributed to Muslim extremists. 5 percent to right-wing extremists; 25 percent to left-wing extremists.”

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Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/942048364245454848 (16 December 2017) 2017

“[P]rogressives are learning the hard way that their adversaries can play their game of vilifying and bullying opponents. Just desserts? I've heard some conservatives say so. But it is terrible for the country.”

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Robert P. George

2017, Interview with Matthew Bunson (2017)

“[C]onsider, humbly, that had we been there, few of us would have been among the heroes who, at great risk to themselves, sheltered Jews and other victims or joined the forces opposing Hitler and the Nazis. Very few of us indeed.”

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Robert P. George

2018, On Holocaust Remembrance Day (2018)

“Stunning that liberals haven't noticed that Trump and Trumpians are happy to use for their own ends precedents liberals set when in power.”

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Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/925122434461831168 (30 December 2017) 2017

“Al Franken deserves condemnation, but President Trump's intervention, given his own self-confessed misconduct, makes what should be bipartisan seem merely partisan. Not helpful. Pots and kettles, Mr. President, pots and kettles.”

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Robert P. George

Twitter post https://twitter.com/McCormickProf/status/931493632468758528 (17 November 2017) 2017

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