Top 40 Paul Weyrich Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.”

— Paul Weyrich

2. “The Fox News cable channel is doing very well because there is a market for what Fox News has to offer.”

— Paul Weyrich

3. “I don’t want everybody to vote.”

— Paul Weyrich

4. “What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter’s intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.”

— Paul Weyrich

5. “The real enemy is the secular humanist mindset which seeks to destroy everything that is good in this society.”

— Paul Weyrich

6. “We are talking about Christianizing America. We are talking about the Gospel in a political context.”

— Paul Weyrich

7. “Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate.”

— Paul Weyrich

8. “Conservative talk radio works because there are lots of conservatives who are convinced that they are not getting the whole story from the regular media.”

— Paul Weyrich

9. “Conservative voters increasingly understand that the one legacy a president can leave is his judicial appointments.”

— Paul Weyrich

10. “So along with several very popular Internet sites, talk radio has served as alternative media that gives listeners information that they otherwise would not hear.”

— Paul Weyrich

11. “Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.”

— Paul Weyrich

12. “It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.”

— Paul Weyrich

13. “In the past, children learned their values at home, reinforced by organizations such as the Boy Scouts and, of course, their church or synagogue, but in all too many families that is no longer the case.”

— Paul Weyrich

14. “Television is now the dominant factor in the lives of too many American children.”

— Paul Weyrich

15. “CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives.”

— Paul Weyrich

16. “Now the truth is, a president really can’t control the economy, although his policies do have some effect on it.”

— Paul Weyrich

17. “If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.”

— Paul Weyrich

18. “The average voter has to hear a point seven times before it registers.”

— Paul Weyrich

19. “Judges were not the biggest issue for most voters in Georgia in 2002.”

— Paul Weyrich

20. “Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees.”

— Paul Weyrich

21. “Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money.”

— Paul Weyrich

22. “Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.”

— Paul Weyrich

23. “Every Arab nation votes against us at least two thirds of the time.”

— Paul Weyrich

24. “Second, a quarter to a third of those who listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are liberals.”

— Paul Weyrich

25. “For one, the Qur’an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself.”

— Paul Weyrich

26. “Absent scandal, a federal judge can serve for decades on the bench, underscoring the importance of appointing judges who have a proper understanding of their constitutional role.”

— Paul Weyrich

27. “If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.”

— Paul Weyrich

28. “Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline.”

— Paul Weyrich

29. “If the Army wants witches and satanists in its ranks, then it can do it without Christians in those ranks. It’s time for the Christians in this country to put a stop to this kind of nonsense. A Christian recruiting strike will compel the Army to think seriously about what it is doing.”

— Paul Weyrich

30. “But the threat posed by the radical Islamists represents an unusual conflict, unlike any experienced by our nation before: we face an enemy that is not a state.”

— Paul Weyrich

31. “Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill.”

— Paul Weyrich

32. “Without the ability of issue groups to tell the truth, who knows what the public will believe.”

— Paul Weyrich

33. “The White House alone cannot hold its opponents accountable.”

— Paul Weyrich

34. “Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world’s problems will be solved.”

— Paul Weyrich

35. “Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.”

— Paul Weyrich

36. “Politicians often lie.”

— Paul Weyrich

37. “Advertisers are very wary of ideological media.”

— Paul Weyrich

38. “Despite being able to demonstrate a very large audience, major advertisers at first wouldn’t touch Limbaugh.”

— Paul Weyrich

39. “The President has a short time to let people know that he is serious about getting spending under control.”

— Paul Weyrich

40. “The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.”

— Paul Weyrich