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Quotes About Left

The progressive Left is sometimes very uncomfortable for staunch pro-Israel supporters, but what's very clear to me is that the progressive Left does not make Jews feel unsafe.
~ Linda Sarsour
Rather than embracing mainstream, majority-held positions, 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have made it exceedingly clear that they will sacrifice themselves on the altar of the radical left - endorsing positions held by a select few and fueling an unstoppable tailwind behind President Trump's reelection.
~ Kayleigh McEnany
For many progressives, 2016 will go down as a year of electoral shocks and profound disappointment. In the U.S., France and many other parts of Europe, the right enters 2017 with newfound confidence while the left recoils in fear of the future, unsure how to get back on the front foot.
~ Keir Starmer
The left's panic and politicization of the coronavirus is not unusual. It is the typical reaction for a party and a media hoping desperately to see the end of the Trump presidency.
~ Kayleigh McEnany
I don't like to brag, but I must tell you that I am regarded in some circles as being in the upper echelons of the elite loony left.
~ Michael Leunig
The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don't understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I'm talking about equality.
~ Ayaan Hirsi Ali
It's become like an urban myth. I don't know her. I don't know anybody she knows. I was standing there at the party by myself for an hour and then I left. Once I got those auditions, I worked really hard. Nobody did me any favors.
~ Shannyn Sossamon
There is no more divisive character in modern politics than Steve Bannon, as he symbolizes the devil incarnate for the heaving, emotional left.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
The gentleman sitting on my left was young, very tall and blond, and had the posture of a sphinx reimagined by Albert Speer.
~ Tim Rogers
He was so obsessed with Michael and all things Halloween that he'd gotten a tattoo of a Thorn rune on his left arm,
~ Tim Waggoner
From 1966 to 1976 ... The primary cause in [the] decline in FBI counterespionage and counterintelligence cases was the ceaseless demand by Presidents Johnson and Nixon to focus on the political warfare against the American left.... - "Espionage Against the United States by American Citizens, 1947-2001, Defense Personnel Security Research Center, July 2002
~ Tim Weiner
And if you want to know what happens to individuals left without a community in which to live most fully as human, where men and women are abandoned, left without small communities in which to flourish, we should visit Trump Country.
~ Timothy P. Carney
If we completely divorce epistemology from politics, we lose sight of the nature of the political opposition. If we think about the opposition between Right and Left as the opposition between particular and universal, it is clear that the struggle is epistemological as much as it is political.
~ Todd McGowan
For New Yorkers, late October 2012 was a moment when something fundamental altered. If there were any climate change deniers in the five boroughs before Hurricane Sandy, I don't think there were too many left afterward.
~ Bill de Blasio
Anyone who doesn't agree with the Left's approach to immigration oftentimes gets stigmatized as anti-immigrant or anti-Hispanic.
~ Marco Rubio
I was an acting opera singer, and that's one of the reasons I left opera.
~ George Gaynes
JACK. I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON. We have. JACK. I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON. The fools? Oh! about the clever people, of course. JACK. What fools!
~ Oscar Wilde
I remained motionless, like a ventriloquist's dummy whose ventriloquist has gone off to the local and left it sitting.
~ p g wodehouse
Captain Bradbury's right eyebrow had now become so closely entangled with his left that there seemed no hope of ever extricating it without the aid of powerful machinery.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
It's well known that he who returns never left
~ Pablo Neruda
Gradually the looting stopped - there was nothing left to take - and the drinking began in earnest. Several huge vats were wheeled into the square and jugs passed from man to man…and then they turned their attention to us.
~ Pat Barker
He turned now to his left
~ Dan Brown
Do you have a phone?' Lady, I don't have a left shoe.
~ Dan Brown
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
~ Voltaire