Dinesh D'Souza Quotes

“A bigot is simply a sociologist without credentials.”

“America is simultaneously the most attractive and most repulsive place on the planet. It is most loved and most hated.”

“American history is the story of Democratic malefactors and Republican heroes.”

“An interesting parallel: MLK was targeted by J. Edgar Hoover, an unsavory character. I was targeted by the equally unsavory B. Hussein Obama.”

“Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.”

“Barack Obama is the most anti-business president in a generation, perhaps in American history.”

“Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.”

“Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.”

“Christianity is the fastest-growing religion in the world; Islam is the second. It's spreading in Asia, Africa, and South America. So the world is in a kind of religious revival, and the atheists are totally flummoxed. They thought they were winning, and now they see that they aren't.”

“Christianity is the very root and foundation of Western civilization.”

“Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.”

“Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.”

“Contrary to what we learn from progressives in education and the media, the history of the Democratic Party well into the twentieth century is a virtually uninterrupted history of thievery, corruption, and bigotry.”

“For many people, the reluctance to embrace Christianity is as practical as it is intellectual. They want to know what the benefits of Christianity are, or what's in it for them.”

“For me, victory isn't measured by winning in the traditional sense.”

“I am attracted to arguments that have a certain plausible originality to them.”

“I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that's a completely different thing. I've written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.”

“I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.”

“I came to America at the age of 17 as an exchange student, and a year later, I was a student at Dartmouth. I would say that the rather weak foundation of my Christianity was effectively battered at Dartmouth. I've had mostly a secular career. But I became intellectually interested in Christianity again in my mid-30s.”

“I came to America because this is a country defined by ladders of opportunity.”

“I don't want reporters to talk to me because I'm a revolutionary and if it got out that I'm basically friendly with Obama it would hurt Obama.”

“I love America, but I chose America.”

“I think, with Obama and the progressives, you've seen a massive expansion of big government, and it's all based on a moral premise. The moral premise is that wealth is theft. And I don't just mean the wealth of America, I mean, your wealth, my wealth.”

“I want to give Michael Moore a run for his money.”

“I was a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, and my neighbor was Michael Novak, a theologian and philosopher who has written about issues like the morality of capitalism and the Christian roots of free markets. It's possible to be fascinated intellectually with the Christian heritage without being devout.”

“I would argue that the issue of God and the issue of science have the same roots.”

“I'm a Catholic by background. I was raised in Goa, a part of India that was visited by Portuguese missionaries a few hundred years ago, which explains my last name.”

“I'm completely Americanized – I have an American accent, an American wife – but a residue of me is foreign.”

“I'm not above the law. No one is. But we don't want to live in a society where Lady Justice has one eye open and winks at her friends and casts the evil eye at her adversaries. When will it stop?”

“If Obama came by his liberalism in the faculty lounge, then sure, he can see it hasn't worked, and he can modify it. But if Obama got his formative ideas when he was very young, and if they are the result of his traumatic relationship with his father, then they are built into his psyche.”