I’m still a conservative, you know, someone who believes in limited government and balanced budgets and the Constitution. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
After 2008, I told people that conservatives were going to be invisible for a while. But, with time, our ideas would be back. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
I tried to distinguish myself from the Rush Limbaughs of the world, but I also understood that there were folks on the Left who did not want to make that distinction: who thought that we all sounded alike, and we all were in lockstep. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
The shock of Trumpism has made me rethink what the conservative movement was about and who our allies were and what our assumptions were. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
I think of John McCain as a conservative, but he is clearly not the same kind of ‘conservative’ as, say, Rand Paul. The word is close to losing almost all meaning. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
I knew Buckley – he was a friend of mine – and Steve Bannon is no William F. Buckley. Buckley marginalized the kooks. Bannon empowered them. Charlie Sykes Read Quote
