Top 40 Kirsten Powers Quotes

Whereas Hillary is continually reinventing herself and her campaign, throwing things against the wall to see what sticks, Sanders appears to be driven by core values. He’s running because he wants to upend a broken system. She’s running because she thinks it’s her turn.

When illiberal feminists aren’t delegitimizing female dissenters from their worldview as fake women, they are portraying them in such a hyper-sexualized way that they are reduced to nonhuman objects.

I grew up in the Episcopal Church in Alaska, but my belief was superficial and flimsy.

People are really nice at Fox.

I derided Christians as anti-intellectual bigots who were too weak to face the reality that there is no rhyme or reason to the world.

Hypocrisy, something Jesus railed against, has become perhaps the most prominent feature of the religious right in the Trump era.

Anthony Weiner lied to the country about his sexual misconduct online. He also lied to me.

Military action is, of course, sometimes necessary to maintain peace. Kosovo and World War II are good examples.

Strangely, while illiberal feminists treat conservative women as men in drag, men who identify as women are treated as women.

Women are often forced to maintain good relations with men who abuse them precisely because those men have power.

It was many years until I started meeting other people who were like me: very progressive-minded politically but also very conservative theologically.

It is a lot harder to write a good book or a good column in a persuasive way without making fun of someone or ridiculing them.

Trump loves free speech only when he or his supporters are speaking.

One question predominates among Democratic voters assessing which candidate to nominate as the Democratic standard-bearer for 2020: ‘Can they beat Donald Trump?’

Bernie is a problem Hillary can’t figure out how to solve, perhaps because he’s not the problem. She is.

The media is not the most Christian-friendly place in the world for the most part. At the same time, a lot of these Christians bring it on themselves.

Because most journalists are secular, they can be gullible in looking to the religious right as arbiters of biblical interpretation, especially as it relates to hot-button cultural and political issues.

Protesters can’t violate First Amendment rights. Only the government can do that.

Did you know there is a war on women? Yes, it’s true. Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher, Matt Taibbi, and Ed Schultz have been waging it for years with their misogynist outbursts.

I’m a registered Democrat, I’ve always been a registered Democrat, only ever voted for a Democrats.

Obama quickly became an effective advocate for the view that government is a critical part of the solution to society‘s problems. So effective that he won reelection in the midst of a struggling economy.

American Christians are quite able to organize around issues that concern them. Yet religious persecution appears not to have grabbed their attention, despite worldwide media coverage of the atrocities against Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East.

Within the paradigm of Democratic politics, even though people probably think I’m a centrist, I’m more a liberal, except for abortion.

In Trump’s mind, women derive their primary value from how they look, which is probably why he owned a major beauty pageant for so many years.

White women are themselves oppressed and that they would therefore be able to align themselves with other oppressed people.

The root of nearly every free-speech infringement on campuses across the country is that someone – almost always a liberal – has been offended or has sniffed out a potential offense in the making.

Campuses should be places where students are able to make mistakes without fear of retribution. If there is no margin for error, it is impossible to receive a meaningful education.

It’s true that Americans are less than thrilled with President Obama and congressional Democrats. Their approval ratings are nothing to celebrate. But electoral politics is a zero-sum game. If one side loses, then the other side wins. Success depends on being just slightly less odious than your opponent.

I sometimes hear Christians talk about how terrible life must be for atheists. But our lives were not terrible. Life actually seemed pretty wonderful, filled with opportunity and good conversation and privilege.

I think my whole life had centered on Democratic politics. I was very much in that bubble. I worked in the Clinton administration so I had all these friends from there, and then in Democratic politics in New York, so that’s what we sort of bonded over – that was our religion, to a certain extent.

Any sentient being knows that pharmaceutical companies are predatory and not to be trusted.

After college I worked as an appointee in the Clinton administration from 1992 to 1998.

Women likely are rejecting Trump because they know the presidential race isn’t just about taxes or ISIL or immigration. It’s about their place in society and how a Trump presidency would drag women back a half-century.

For many Americans the term ‘speech code’ sends shivers up the spine. Yet these noxious and un-American codes have become commonplace on college campuses across the United States.

If you support somebody who does racist things, that makes you racist.

We need to get beyond the stereotypes. Palin has been cast as a right-wing nut job in the media, yet her actual record suggests something more complex. She is a Republican who made herself the enemy of oil companies in Alaska.

If conservatives are so concerned about black-on-black crime, it is concerning the only time I hear them talking about it is when they want to stick it to the black community.

Loving people does not require you to stay silent when you see something that merits being called out.

By all means, if you have a chemical imbalance, use medication. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be allowed to have a broader conversation about the pharmaceutical industry and the deep structural flaws in our economic system.

Higher education should provide an environment to test new ideas, debate theories, encounter challenging information, and figure out what one believes.