Quotes About Ideology

In Washington, politicians worry about their 'base.' About polls. About ideology. About raising money. About re-election. They measure their future in two- or six-year increments.

Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.

Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

I don't like a lot of what's published as hard SF. Much of it is right-wing, reactionary crap.

Leftist reactions are always histrionic.

The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.

I became a huge Reagan admirer.

I have been a Republican since I came to this country, fleeing communism when I was eight years old and Ronald Reagan was president.

Reagan was the conservative Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Republican - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.

When most presidents get in, they move to the center because they realize that this is a centrist country - even Reagan.

Many of Reagan's listeners thought he was dreaming. But Reagan had faith in freedom. He knew that communism, although militarily powerful, was ideologically dead. He knew what our Founders knew: that, in a truly legitimate government, power does not come out of the barrel of a gun, but only from the consent of the people.

The Republican Party has moved substantially to the right of where Reagan was.

Reagan was no neocon.

Trump is not a conservative and has no conservative agenda. If elected president, he would not govern as the second coming of Ronald Reagan.

Trump is the opposite of everything Reagan was.

I would consider myself a Reagan Republican.

I'm a real left-winger. I fancy Jeremy Corbyn!

Anyone who is seriously interested in me would usually do a little more homework and realise that the extreme criticisms are almost exclusively ideologically based.

The idea of social realist art and of Marxist journalism was that: 'We're going to tell people not what things were like, but what they should be like, and what they will be like, and we'll get them to keep focusing on the future.'

Some want to rebrand the GOP, but they will never rebrand conservatives.

I rallied against Clinton when he was in office. I didn't vote for him in '96. I didn't vote for Gore in 2000.