“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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