Quotes About Ideology

The left loves the courts. They hate constitutional limited government.

For many on the left a hateful anti-Americanism has become a self-congratulatory lifestyle.

Conservatives define themselves more by their hatred of liberals than anything else, and, conversely, liberals by their distaste for conservatives.

A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism.

I'm against the president's health care law because I don't agree that it's going to achieve its goals. I believe in the goals.

You have to understand the way the liberal looks at something working. Their purpose here is not to provide you health care cheaply, affordably and plentifully. That's not what this is about to them.

I get a lot of heat from the Left, which is bizarre. I get a lot of heat from the Right, too, but the vitriol is from the Left.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

In the Trump era, the Left has smartly and justifiably seized a moral high ground that the Right has abandoned by its embrace of the president.

Likud has been hijacked by a group of extremist settlers.

Ultimately, Hillary and Obama are on the same side.

I knew that Trump was ghastly. I knew I'd vote for Hillary if I had a vote.

People do not necessarily vote in their self-interest. They vote their identity. They vote their values. They vote for who they identify with. They may identify with their self-interest. That can happen. It is not that people never care about their self-interest. But they vote their identity. And if their identity fits their self-interest, they will vote for that. It is important to understand that point.

People who self-identify as "moderates" appear not to be inbetweeners, but rather biconceptuals—conservative in some issue areas and progressive in others. Last

The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.

One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.

Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought. It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective stupidity.

At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.